On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed a new law that will have immediate and lasting impacts on all children, with particular harm to immigrant children and children in mixed-status families. While we don’t know how these changes will be rolled out, we know this legislation drastically cuts funding for Medicaid and SNAP, restricts access to life-saving public benefit programs and tax credits, and gives the Department of Homeland Security enormous resources to detain and deport immigrant families.
Here are some of the provisions that will directly impact immigrant children and families: