Deportation disrupting lives for U.S. children

Voices intern Nicole Bibel guest blogs about a recent report on the impact of immigration enforcement policies

There are around 16 million “mixed status” families living in America, most of them U.S. citizen children and undocumented parents. They live in…

Voices supports new protection for undocumented youth

The Obama administration will stop the deportation of many young undocumented immigrants, the White House announced today. Child advocates have fought for years against the deportation of promising students who have kept clean records and were brought into the United…

Report: The families separated by America’s immigration policies

A new report by the Applied Research Center shows how families can be broken apart by America’s immigration policies. Although both immigration law and child welfare policy aims to keep families together, that is often not how it works in…