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
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
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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
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.
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🚨JUST IN: Congress is urging action as the administration refuses to issue payments for legally required services for unaccompanied children.
These nonpayments threaten a system that has protected kids for nearly 20 years, and put thousands at risk.
https://bit.ly/4flcnUQ
🚨 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
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.
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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
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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Children in prolonged ORR custody often experience worsening stress, anxiety, withdrawal, and hopelessness.
Our new practice guidance helps attorneys, advocates, clinicians, and service providers recognize and respond to what many describe as "detention fatigue."
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
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Two Honduran immigrant children have been unlawfully detained at a youth facility in Virginia for more than 300 days, the ACLU alleges in a lawsuit.
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...
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.
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...
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KIND's new guidance focuses on considerations most relevant to supporting children and youth in the United States who are in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement or Immigration and Custom...
The effort includes criminal prosecutions, tracking down children, surprise visits to nonprofit groups and an attempt to seek help from the U.S. military.
