The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and the Women’s Refugee Commission condemn a new plan under consideration to separate families at the border.
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Trump Administration Guts Protections for Immigrant Children. Read more here.
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A full month has passed since the deadline for the administration to reunite the families it separated at the border, but as of late last week, 528 children are still waiting to be reunified with their parents.
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Throughout the month of July, Young Center attorneys, social workers, and volunteer Child Advocates have helped reunify children with their parents after weeks or months of separation. Like in the case of three-year-old Aron, where our Child Advocate made it possible for the toddler to be reunified with his mother and released from government custody after a four-and-a-half month separation.
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Today, Young Center Child Advocates in three different cities helped to safely reunify toddlers who were unlawfully taken from their parents by the government. These parent-child reunions were the result of months of fighting for these families, from finding the documents to establish their relationships, to setting up phone and video calls, to finding family or community organizations willing to provide shelter.
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On Tuesday, as reported by Crain's New York, Airbnb announced a donation of $10,000 in free housing vouchers to the Young Center in support of our efforts to reunify families. These vouchers will help the Young Center expand our network of Child Advocates beyond its current geographic scope, support staff when working on family reunification cases that require travel, and facilitate key training and strategy sessions dedicated to child and family rights.
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Late Tuesday evening, a federal judge in California ordered the federal government to reunify the thousands of parents and children forcibly separated by the Trump administration… But we remain deeply concerned about whether the government will consider children's best interests in implementing the order.
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The fight is far from over. Watch an update from Executive Director, Maria Woltjen, on the fight to end family separation and protect immigrant children.
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Today, 540 organizations, hailing from all 50 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico, called upon DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to end the practice of separating children from their parents at the U.S. border.
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We continue to hear from people who are outraged by the U.S. government's policy to take children away from their mothers and fathers at the border. We've received an outpouring of support and interest, and many have asked, "How can we help?" Here's how you can help right now: Join today's National Day of Action for Children
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Las Doctoras Recomiendan is supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which has stood alongside the Young Center as an outspoken opponent of family separation in recent months. The episode featuring Vanessa is titled “Leyes de Inmigración: lo que toda familia immigrante debe saber” (Immigration laws: what every immigrant family should know).
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On May 7th, Attorney General Sessions announced a new policy to criminally prosecute anyone who comes to the border and separate them from their children. The parents will be placed in federal criminal custody, and their children sent to immigration facilities around the country.
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This Mother’s Day, make a gift in honor of a mother, grandmother, aunt, or any woman who's made a difference in your life.
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no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well
"I never envisioned running an organization of 40 people. When I first started this work, it was just me—I was the one who traveled down to the border to train child advocates, and the one who went to court. I was in the children’s shelters all the time, in the trenches, and I loved it."
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Last week, the Washington Post published a powerful op-ed by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on why we provide protections for unaccompanied immigrant children, and why these laws are not accidental loopholes but intended acts of basic human decency.
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Every day the Young Center works with children separated from parents by U.S. immigration officials. In most cases, the separation is not done to protect the child, but is instead related to the parent’s immigration status. We applaud today's announcement of an investigation into improper family separation at the border.
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