Drawing on frameworks and expertise advanced by directly impacted youth, child welfare advocates, immigrant rights groups, and scholars, as well as the examples of other countries, …
ntion facilities unsuitable for child health and safety. Furthermore, reporting and oversight from governmental and non-governmental agencies have documented devastatingly harmful …
Dec 3, 2024 · Two federal laws establish the main framework for the treatment of UACs.
Under the TVPRA of 2008, HHS is required to “promptly place” each child in its custody “in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interests of the child.”55 As such, children in ORR …
There is a comprehensive international legal framework on children's rights and their protection in place, yet irregular migrant children, especially those unaccompanied or separated from their …
Deportation efforts and restrictive border policies may yield an unprecedented expansion of child-caregiver separations. Over 4 million U.S.-born children have an undocumented immigrant …
The era of mass migration in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries saw millions of child migrants arrive to the U.S. from Europe, Mexico, and Asia who ended up working in a diversity …