Displaying 61 - 70 of 102
"Since March, the Trump administration has pushed thousands of migrant children back to their home countries without legal screenings or protection, citing the risk that they could be carrying COVID-19 into the United States," says this article from ProPublica. "But by the time the children are boarded on planes home, they’ve already been tested for the virus — and proven not to have it."
According to the article, children who have tested negative for COVID-19 are being denied the usual protections, including the chance to seek asylum. "To apply the expulsion order to children, however,…
"African American children are more likely to live in grandfamilies (aka grandparents and other relatives raising grandchildren, kinship care) than the general population of children," says this article from PRNewswire. "These children are dramatically overrepresented both in kinship foster care and among grandfamilies who live outside the formal foster care system."
The article calls attention to Generations United's new tool kit, which "provides essential information to help organizations better serve African American grandfamilies during [the COVID-19 crisis] and into the…
This article from Time tells the story of one mother in the U.S. who is faced with the decision to either separate from her two-year daughter, releasing her to a sponsor, or keep her daughter in detention with her, waiving the girl’s right to be released. Either way, the mother, Maria, will not be able to leave detention herself.
"As COVID-19 cases continue to increase across the country, court orders from two different lawsuits have created a situation that lawyers and advocates are calling another form of family separation," says the article. "Now, parents in…
This article from the Atlantic explores the impacts of school shutdowns, social distancing, and lockdowns on children during the COVID-19 pandemic and how supportive caregivers can mitigate the harms of social isolation. The article notes "the good news is that children—especially young children—are surprisingly resilient as long as they have at least one supportive adult in their life."
The author of the article spoke to Jack Shonkoff, a pediatrician who directs Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child, who states that “the most important thing that all children need is a…
A federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release children from detention facilities by July 17, and doctors and activities are calling for the release of their parents and other asylum seekers as well due to the risk of COVID-19 spread, according to this article from Texas Public Radio.
In addition to concerns over the spread of the virus, "immigrant rights advocates also worry the federal ruling for the children to be released will only lead to family separation," says the article. “'We want them to be released with their parents, with whatever…
"A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has until mid-July to release migrant children in family detention centers, citing COVID-19 concerns at these facilities," says this article from Texas Public Radio. "Advocates say that isn’t good enough, and they’re calling on ICE to release the children’s parents, too."
A federal judge has ruled that the US government must release migrant children held in the country's three family detention centers by mid-July due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to this article from CNN. "The ruling is part of an ongoing effort to release immigrants held in detention who are particularly susceptible to the coronavirus given the confined settings at facilities and the potential for spread."
This article from the Chronicle of Social Change discusses how, in the United States, "states and counties that have come to rely on interdisciplinary legal representation – a model that includes social workers and peer advocates working alongside attorneys to fight for parents and children – have overcome the new barriers imposed by the pandemic to help families reunify."
"Citing the coronavirus to seal the border to an unprecedented extent, the [U.S.] administration is engaged in a pressure campaign against immigrant parents to get them to give up either their kids or their legal claims to protection in the U.S.," says this article from the Los Angeles Times. The article begins with the story of one family whose three children — ages 10, 14, and 16 — are living with their father in the U.S. but have been given deportation orders and "U.S. officials are fighting in court to take the three children and deport them to El Salvador — to no one."
The…
Families with children in foster care in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador are "in the process of being reunited with their kids after a lengthy suspension of in-person visits due to COVID-19," according to this article from CBC News. "Maybe pre-COVID families may have had four visits a week. We may have to start off with two," said Minister of the Department of Children, Seniors and Social Development, Lisa Dempster.