The rapid scale-up of immigration enforcement operations in the United States throughout 2025 has resulted in the termination of legal status, detention, and deportation for hundreds of thousands of immigrants. As a result, some children have been suddenly separated from their parents, left in custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, or in uncertain care arrangements in local communities. With the passage of H.R.1, and the large investment in detention and deportation infrastructure, child-family separation related to the detention and deportation of parents is likely to continue and may increase.
During this webinar, panelists will discuss child and family rights in the context of immigration enforcement, the scale and scope of the child-family separation crisis, legislative oversight, and child- and family-centered responses.
This event is co-sponsored by the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues and the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.