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Children’s Advocates Welcome Biden Administration’s Actions to Expand Legal Pathways for Undocumented Spouses and Dreamers

Media contact: Archana Pyati, [email protected] Washington, D.C., June 18, 2024 – Members of the Children Thrive Action Network applaud and welcome steps the Biden Administration has taken today to create additional pathways for legal status and work authorization for two groups of immigrants who strengthen and support American families, communities, Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 4 weeksJune 18, 2024 ago

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Securing Our Future: The Need for a Pathway to Citizenship for Dreamers

For the past twelve years, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has allowed hundreds of thousands of Dreamers — immigrants who entered the country as children — to go to school, work, and build their lives with lessened fears of deportation. However, this program was always meant to Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 1 monthJune 14, 2024 ago

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Afterthoughts: The Children of Deported Parents

Children Thrive Action Network partnered with The Ohio Immigrant Alliance to bring attention to the harms of deportation on children. Children and young people from communities of color bear a higher burden of the costs of deportation, resulting from systemic racism, social inequality, and a punitive immigration enforcement system. This factsheet outlines Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 1 monthJune 13, 2024 ago

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Health Experts, Educators, and Advocates Call on the Biden Administration to Expand Legal Pathways to Protect Children and Keep Families Together

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2024 Contacts: Archana Pyati ([email protected] / (202) 258-2133); Maya Hixson ([email protected]) Washington, D.C. — Today, child health and development experts, educators, labor leaders, children and family advocates, and impacted parents called on President Biden to protect the well-being of children in mixed-status immigrant families by using Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 2 monthsMay 13, 2024 ago

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Parole in Place Letter from Child-Focused Organizations

The Center for Law and Social Policy led a group of child-focused organizations to send a letter to the Biden Administration urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to expand existing pathways for administrative immigration relief to promote family unity and provide much-needed relief and stability to children in mixed-status Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 2 monthsMay 13, 2024 ago

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260+ organizations nationwide urge White House and Congress to oppose anti-immigrant policies in supplemental funding negotiations

More than 260 organizations – representing children’s advocacy, health, education, labor, faith, antipoverty, legal, reproductive justice, disability, economic, immigration, nutrition, and academic sectors – signed onto a letter urging the Biden administration and Congress to oppose anti-immigrant and anti-asylum policies – including proposals that would further restrict asylum, expand expedited Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 7 monthsDecember 15, 2023 ago

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Child Advocates Call for an End to Cruelty on Migrant Families

July 24, 2023 Contact: Archana Pyati at [email protected] Members of the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) have expressed alarm over reports of asylum seekers, including nursing mothers, pregnant women, and young children, being subjected to harm at the Texas border under Governor Abbott’s border security initiative. The disturbing reports include Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 12 monthsJuly 24, 2023 ago

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Child Tax Credit State Fact Sheets

Every child must have access to critical supports. Congress must take action to create a permanent solution to fight poverty for all children in the United States, including by permanently expanding the child tax credit (CTC) to include all children. Nationally, restoring eligibility for the CTC would impact over one Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 1 yearJuly 12, 2023 ago

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Child-Focused DACA Health Coverage Organizational Sign-On Comment

85 organizations dedicated to the health and well-being of children wrote in response to the Biden’s administration’s proposed rule to expand health care coverage to DACA recipients. The comment highlights the impact improved access to health care coverage will have on the well-being of DACA recipients as well as that of their Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 1 yearJune 23, 2023 ago

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Organizational Sign-On Letter on Sinema-Tillis Bill

More than 170 national, state, and local organizations have signed the below letter expressing our strong opposition to S.1473, introduced by Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), as well as the House companion bill H.R. 3234. Our organizations represent children’s advocates, health care providers, teachers, unions, parents, faith-based organizations, service Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 1 yearMay 11, 2023 ago