Date: April 28-30, 2026

Location: Kansas City, KS

The article describes how hundreds of children across the United States have been left behind — in foster care, with relatives, or neighbors — after their Venezuelan parents were deported, often under sweeping immigration enforcement measures.

The article reports that President Trump secured $25 million in federal funding to strengthen support for youth in foster care, particularly focusing on those aging out of the system who often face heightened risks of homelessness, unemployment, a

This article from BBC discusses how a number of individuals adopted as children into the United States are now at risk of deportation because their citizenship status was never formally secured.

The piece argues that while the U.S.

This Reuters article reports that the Trump administration is offering unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. custody a one-time stipend of US $2,500 to voluntarily return to their countries of origin.

This Washington Post article focuses on how ICE officers are ramping up arrests in the United States, leaving hundreds of migrant children to be sent to federal shelters.

This paper outlines a research agenda to guide the initial stages of work of the new Notre Dame Strengthening Families (NDSF) Research Initiative in the U.S. This initiative is focused on building knowledge around the economics of families and evidence-based ways to promote and strengthen healthy families.

This study investigated how Finnish, Taiwanese, and U.S. children conceptualized and experienced care.

This article notes how a U.S. federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan children, following reports they had been placed on planes for return under a new pilot program.