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December 1, 2020

The Trump Administration has taken deliberate steps to roll back protections for unaccompanied minors and refugee children, and is working towards numerous other actions that…

November 18, 2020

In 2018, the Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance policy forcibly separated more than 2,800 children from their parents--and shocked the nation’s conscience. These separations, and the…

November 13, 2020

As detailed below, in response to the Trump administration’s politically motivated CDC order invoking Title 42 and the illegal expulsions of unaccompanied children and asylum…

October 8, 2020

Since March 2020, the U.S. government has turned away over 10,000 immigrant children at the border, denying them any opportunity to seek protection in the…

July 13, 2020

Since March, thousands of unaccompanied children, and tens of thousands more asylum seekers, have been expelled from the border, denying them any opportunity to seek…

July 7, 2020

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is currently running a shortfall in its annual operating budget of an estimated $1.2 billion. Officials with the fee-funded…

July 1, 2020

U.S. law has special protections to keep children traveling alone safe, and to protect them from human trafficking and return to danger. Since March 20th,…

June 16, 2020

Since March 2020, often under the pretext of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump Administration has dramatically escalated its attacks on the legal protections and family…

May 28, 2020

Child Circle and Kids in Need of Defense (“KIND”) share a summary of core recommendations below on what measures should be in place at the…