Immigration Court Policy Changes Impacting Unaccompanied Children

KIND’s “Timeline Tracking How the Second Trump Administration Is Rolling Back Protections for Unaccompanied Children,” catalogues recent and emerging Trump Administration measures that undermine unaccompanied children’s safety and welfare. One of the significant ramifications of these policy changes is that unaccompanied children are having a harder time navigating immigration court and pursuing claims for legal relief. One of the central tenets of the protection system for unaccompanied children is that they should be afforded a process to present their story—a process that the immigration courts should play a constructive role in implementing. Instead, the courts have been moving in the opposite direction. This spotlight complements KIND’s timeline by highlighting how policy changes affecting the immigration courts are impacting unaccompanied children.

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