Nationwide, 25% of all children in the United States have an immigrant parent & over 5 million children have an undocumented immigrant parent—a majority of those children are U.S. citizens themselves. A pathway to citizenship would have an immense impact on children in immigrant families, including lifting over 250,000 children Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 15, 2021Contact: Lynn Tramonte ([email protected] / 202-255-0551); Tom Salyers ([email protected] / 202- 607-1074) Washington, D.C. – The Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) closes out the #CitizenshipMeans #KidsThrive week of action with a call for family unity. While Congress considers a path to citizenship for immigrants, this Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 13, 2021 Contact: Lynn Tramonte ([email protected] / 202-255-0551); Tom Salyers ([email protected]/ 202- 607-1074) Washington, D.C. – While Congress considers a path to citizenship for immigrants, the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) #CitizenshipMeans #KidsThrive week of action continues. Citizenship for all is a children’s issue. When parents Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 8, 2021 Contact: Lynn Tramonte ([email protected] / 202-255-0551); Tom Salyers ([email protected] / 202- 607-1074) Washington, D.C. – The Children Thrive Action Network’s #CitizenshipMeans #KidsThrive week of action runs from September 8 through 15. While Congress considers a path to citizenship for immigrants, we remind them that Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 11, 2021 Contact: Lynn Tramonte ([email protected] / 202-255-0551); Tom Salyers ([email protected] / 202- 607-1074) Washington, D.C. – Members of the Children Thrive Action Network are celebrating the Senate’s critical step toward enacting a path to citizenship for immigrants whose home is in the United States. Over Read more…
Download the One Pager here: Who are children in mixed-status immigrant families? Mixed-status immigrant families are those with at least one citizen and one non-citizen member. Non-citizens include (but are not limited to) family members with green cards, temporary visas, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Temporary Protected Status Read more…
On June 23rd, CTAN, CLASP, Children at Risk, and several other partners will co-host a virtual event from 11AM-3PM ET entitled “Healing and Thriving: A National Summit on Children of Immigrants.” The event will focus on national and state policy and practice opportunities for supporting children in immigrant families. REGISTER Read more…
CLASP, First Focus Campaign for Children, and other members of the Children Thrive Action Network submitted this statement for the record to the Senate Judiciary Committee for the June 15, 2021 hearing on “The American Dream and Promise Act of 2021.” The statement urges Congress to pass the bill and Read more…
Policy Principles to Advance the Wellbeing of Children of Immigrants One in four children in the United States is a child of immigrants, and the vast majority are U.S. citizens. Throughout our history, children of immigrants have helped to make our nation stronger, and as the fastest growing child population, Read more…
This letter signed by more than 100 children and youth groups at the national, state, and local levels calls on Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration to include a path to citizenship for immigrant youth, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, essential workers, and their Read more…