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10/26/2022
The Imprint staff reports
After Texas and Florida made it harder to provide shelter for unaccompanied minors, the Biden administration wants to add federal monitoring.
7/14/2022
A bill before Congress would ensure that safer housing and legal protection would be provided for undocumented, unaccompanied minors.
2/13/2022
John Kelly
The confirmation hearing for Biden's top two child welfare officials took place last week, and the topics of discussion at the hearing are likely a strong indicator of what child welfare issues are front and center for various factions of D.C. in 2022.
5/4/2021
Opinion
Shaina Aber, Megan Mack and Erica Bryant
Children being medically examined at a border facility. Photo courtesy of Vera Institute of Justice For the past decade, conditions in northern Central America have propelled the migration of vulnerable and often traumatized children to the U.S.
3/18/2021
In a reversal of Trump administration policy, Biden federal immigration officials will no longer collect information from the Department of Health and Human Services that could lead to the deportation of parents or other possible caregivers who step forward to care for children who cross the border unaccompanied seeking asylum.
7/19/2020
Chris Palusky
Two weeks ago, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols drew a line in the sand. The U.S. government had issued a directive requiring border agents to deport unaccompanied children, arguing that they could be vectors and contributing to the spread of COVID-19.
4/9/2020
Megan Conn
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.
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6/13/2019
Sarah John
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.
2/1/2019
Dona Abbott and Kristi Gleason
This past Christmas, approximately 9,800 children in the U.S. spent the holiday in large-scale institutions holding more than 100 kids each. These children came from countries including Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — nations with the highest child murder rates in the world — seeking refuge and safety in the United States.
12/20/2018
Each day for the next two weeks, we’ll count down 10 of the biggest stories The Imprint published in 2018. In each, we’ll connect readers with a few links to our coverage of this issue.
