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Factsheet on Children in Mixed-Status Families and Current Policy Threats
Factsheet on Children in Mixed-Status Families and Current Policy Threats
Press Release
Advocates Condemn Revival of Family Detention as a Direct Attack on Children’s Safety and Well-being
Contact: Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, [email protected] Washington, DC, March 11, 2025 – Members of the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) are deeply concerned by reports that the Trump Administration is actively making plans to once again jail families with children in ICE detention facilities. This action is yet another Read more…
Press Release
Children’s Groups Outraged by Passage of Laken Riley Act and Call on Policymakers to Advocate for All Children
Contact: Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, [email protected] Members of the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) are gravely concerned about the harm the Laken Riley Act, which Congress passed on January 22, 2025, could cause to immigrant children and children of immigrants across the U.S. The bill’s sweeping punitive measures mean Read more…
Toolkits
Toolkit: Protecting Immigrant Families Facing Deportation
Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) created this toolkit, which is being updated ad-hoc, to serve two purposes: This linked document contains the most up-to-date resources grouped in the following categories: Help children whose parents are facing deportation Circulate resources to providers and mixed-status families: Share resources for providers: Distribute resources Read more…
Toolkits
Resources for Providers on Protecting Locations from Immigration Enforcement
Know Your Rights, Safe Space Policy Guides, Emergency Preparedness, and other Resources CLASP, CTAN, and other partners created this resource document to help support early education, K-12, housing, and healthcare providers and local jurisdictions in keeping their locations and facilities safe from immigration enforcement. This page provides a list of Read more…
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Access to Benefits are Essential for DACA Recipients and their Families to Thrive
By Celeste Dorantes History of Exclusion In 2012, the Obama Administration announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA has allowed hundreds of thousands of young people to work and live in the United States without fear of deportation—including becoming our teachers, health care providers, and caregivers. Yet, Read more…
Press Release
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…
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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…
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Afterthoughts: The Children of Deported Parents
This fact sheet was updated on August 27, 2024. 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 Read more…
Press Release
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…