FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 26, 2021 Contact: Lynn Tramonte (latramonte@gmail.com / 202-255-0551); Tom Salyers (tsalyers@clasp.org/ 202- 607-1074) Washington, D.C. – Following is a statement from members of the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) Coordinating Committee. See a list of signatories at the end. Children fleeing Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 16, 2021 Contact: Lynn Tramonte (latramonte@gmail.com / 202-255-0551); Tom Salyers (tsalyers@clasp.org / 202- 607-1074) Washington, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives is taking up two major immigration bills that could transform the lives of more than one million children in immigrant families. Members of the Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 8, 2021 Contact: Lynn Tramonte (latramonte@gmail.com / 202-255-0551); Tom Salyers (tsalyers@clasp.org/ 202- 607-1074) [CW – sexual assault and other violence] Washington, D.C. – On International Women’s Day, the Children Thrive Action Network denounces the detention and deportation of Black immigrants, women, children, and families by the Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 26, 2021 Contact: Lynn Tramonte (latramonte@gmail.com / (202) 255-0551; Tom Salyers (tsalyers@clasp.org/ (202) 607-1074 Washington, D.C. – In less than a week, the Biden-Harris Administration has ushered in a new sense of community and possibility. It outlined a bold agenda on immigration policy and COVID-19 relief Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2020 Contact: Lynn Tramonte (latramonte@gmail.com / (202) 255-0551; Tom Salyers (tsalyers@clasp.org/ (202) 607-1074 Washington, D.C. – One in four children in the United States has at least one immigrant parent, and over 5 million children have a parent who is undocumented. Today, over 180 organizations Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 16, 2020 Contact: Lynn Tramonte (latramonte@gmail.com / (202) 255-0551; Tom Salyers (tsalyers@clasp.org/ (202) 607-1074 Washington, D.C. – From expanding extra-judicial deportations to retaliating against cities who refuse to enforce federal immigration law, the Trump administration is threatening to kick immigration enforcement into overdrive over the next Read more…
September 16, 2020, Washington, D.C.—Crista Ramos likes to play soccer and wants to be an attorney. Just sixteen years old, she is also the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging its cancellation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of El Salvador, Sudan, and Nicaragua, with Read more…
“We cannot let an entire generation come of age with fear, anxiety, and instability as their primary childhood memory” September 9, 2020, Washington, D.C. – A new coalition of organizations has emerged to ensure that the children of immigrants–one-quarter of all children in the United States–are no longer harmed by policy Read more…