Immigration Policies that Kill Parents are Policies that Harm Children

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS:  Melissa Stek, communications consultant, melissa@mountgem.com  Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org  Washington, DC, July 14, 2026—In just one week, U.S. immigration agents have killed two dads. On July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Read more

COVID-19 — include immigrant families and children in relief effort

By Mónica Ramírez and Olivia Golden (Excerpt) This spring, Congress denied the tax-paying families of an estimated 3.5 million children economic help under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. That’s right: families who have contributed billions in taxes, families with U.S. citizen children, were cut off from bare-bones financial Read more