For over 15 years, we’ve been at the forefront of protecting unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children worldwide, defending their rights and safety.
Kids in Need of Defense
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Thank you, @salinas.house.gov, for demanding answers and accountability regarding reports of mistreatment of unaccompanied children in federal custody.
We welcome oversight to ensure every child is treated lawfully and protected from abuse and neglect.
https://bit.ly/4oiuKvY
Children should not spend months—or years—in limbo.
Two Honduran siblings have remained in federal custody for nearly a year despite having family sponsors available to receive them.
Prolonged uncertainty can harm children’s development and sense of safety.
https://bit.ly/4uTCSFG
KIND is proud to endorse the Fair Day in Court for Kids Act, critical legislation that would ensure no unaccompanied child faces immigration court alone.
Thank you, @lofgren.house.gov, for introducing this bill and standing up for children’s right to counsel.
https://bit.ly/4vi86qk
Education is not a privilege reserved for some children.
44 years ago, Plyler v. Doe affirmed that all children have the right to attend public school, regardless of immigration status.
As those protections face renewed challenges, we must defend every child’s right to learn.
On June 11, federal agents visited KIND’s DC headquarters without a warrant in an operation targeting legal service providers for unaccompanied children.
Our work to support due process and protect the most vulernable will not be intimidated.
Our statement: https://bit.ly/4os51kX
🚨 ORR’s actions could strip unaccompanied children of critical legal services, putting thousands at risk. We’re calling for accountability.
Add your voice today.
https://bit.ly/4gchh6M
Legal services are a child protection tool.
Attorneys help unaccompanied children understand their rights, appear in court, & access protections available under the law
As KIND’s Wendy Young told The Washington Post: “We are really part of the solution.”
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Right now, the Trump administration is pushing unaccompanied immigrant children through mass deportation hearings.
Now it's trying to force their lawyers to give up sensitive legal information.
Kids deserve due process and protection, not coercion.
Thousands of families protected under the Ms. L settlement are being separated again — parents detained and deported with no warning, leaving children behind.
For kids like Ederson, history is repeating itself.
https://bit.ly/4uP8xbd
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) led 46 colleagues in a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Office of R...
The effort includes criminal prosecutions, tracking down children, surprise visits to nonprofit groups and an attempt to seek help from the U.S. military.
Organizations providing legal aid to unaccompanied migrant children say agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Health and Human Services attempted to enter their offices.
An Associated Press investigation reveals that dozens of children who were separated under the first Trump administration have been reseparated, despite a judge's order to reunite them.
Thank you to Gehad Madi, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, for elevating children's right to family life in migration and asylum systems.
We support this call for input and encourages advocates & practitioners to submit recommendations & evidence by 5/15.
https://bit.ly/4u4whH9
BackgroundIn the concluding remarks of his report on Children are children first and foremost: protecting child rights in migration contexts (A/79/213), the Special Rapporteur stressed that “serious g...
KIND commends Representative Zoe Lofgren’s introduction today of the Fair Day in Court for Kids Act – legislation that would guarantee legal counsel for all unaccompanied children in immigration proce...
