ARTICLE TAG

UAC

4/9/2020

After Court Action, Unaccompanied Minors Starting to Leave Risky Group Settings in New York City

Following an emergency federal court action taken last week, New York group home providers caring for unaccompanied Central American minors have begun to move some of those children out of shelters that now constitute a contagion-risky environment in a city that has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. 

9/4/2019

Foster Mom Reflects on Six Years Caring for More Than 100 Central American Children

The Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program began in 2003 as part of a recognition by both political parties that when children arrived alone at our border, often in search of safety from circumstances back home, they warranted special protection.

6/13/2019

Website Changes Foreshadowed New Trump Limits on Unaccompanied Minors Program

Changes made to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) website before May 23, 2019, foreshadowed policy changes related to unaccompanied migrant children that were not announced, even to ORR grantees, until May 30, 2019.

a child looks out a window

2/21/2019

Citing Trump’s Family Separation Policy, California Lawmakers Call for State Oversight of Unaccompanied Minors

A group of California legislators want the state to exercise more oversight over the federal program that handles unaccompanied minors from other countries, including the ones who were separated from their families under Trump’s controversial 2018 policy.

A young boy facing deportation proceedings without legal representation, as shown in the film "Unaccompanied: Alone in America."

11/20/2018

Citing Deportation Threat, L.A. Will Offer Legal Help to Some Foster Youth

Los Angeles County leaders have approved new funding to provide immigration lawyers for foster youth, citing changes to federal policies that have made it more difficult and risky to address the rights of abused and neglected youth in the immigration system.

8/22/2018

New York Agencies Should Stop Working with Trump Administration on Unaccompanied Minors

I believe that the time has come for each of us to take whatever action is available to stop the abuse of asylum-seeking unaccompanied minors and families being implemented by the current federal administration.

    Immigration

    6/28/2018

    Questions and Fast-Moving Developments for Children and Families Detained at the Border

    President Trump has backed off his wildly unpopular policy of separating children from asylum-seeking Central American families at the southern border, which was rolled out to help facilitate the administration’s zero-tolerance approach on prosecuting crossers.

    Youth Services Insider

    6/19/2018

    Child Welfare, Human Services Execs Slam Trump for Border Separations

    Leaders from some of the nation’s largest domestic human service providers strongly condemned the Trump administration’s policy of removing children from asylum-seeking parents arriving at the border. “On behalf of the human services sector, representing more than 5 million staff and volunteers, we call on the Trump administration to immediately stop this wrong and immoral policy, that has resulted in more than 2,000 children being needlessly separated from their parents while their parents are being processed at our borders,” said a statement issued today by 14 CEOs.

    Youth Services Insider
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    5/29/2018

    The Unaccompanied Minors Program, and What’s Really Wrong with It

    Mainstream media attention has returned to the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program, through which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) takes custody of some kids who arrive at the border without a parent.