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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa Stek, communications consultant, melissa@mountgem.com Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org Washington, DC, July 9, 2026—The Trump Administration is expanding its efforts to detain more immigrant children and families and deport them more quickly. Last week, the Texas Tribune reported on the administration’s plans Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org Washington, DC, Tuesday, May 19—Through the budget reconciliation process, Congressional leaders are pushing forward harmful funding proposals and will vote this week to potentially hand the federal government’s immigration agencies an additional $62 billion Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa Stek, communications consultant, melissa@mountgem.com Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org Washington, DC, February 4, 2026—As Ohio communities face the uncertainty of the future of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and the threat of an immigration abduction operation, members of the Children Thrive Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org Washington, D.C., January 20, 2026—In defense of the safety and well-being of our nation’s children, members of the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) are calling on Congress to reject federal budget proposals that include Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org Washington, DC, December 19, 2025—Today, 190 organizations concerned with the well-being of children submitted a public comment to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) opposing a proposed rule that would provide the agency discretion Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org Washington, DC, December 4, 2025—Today, Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the bipartisan Dream Act of 2025, a bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for people who came to Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org Washington, D.C., November 19, 2025—Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a proposed rule that would rescind the 2022 public charge policy and provide the agency discretion to deny green cards based Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa Stek, communications consultant, melissa@mountgem.com Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org Danielle Alexander, Communications Director, danielle@childcareforeveryfamily.org Washington, DC, November 5, 2025—Early this morning, federal agents entered an early learning center in Chicago and abducted one of their teachers without a warrant. The teacher’s abduction was Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa Stek, communications consultant, melissa@mountgem.com Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org Washington, DC, October 5, 2025—On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alerted legal service providers serving immigrant children of their plans to incentivize the children to leave the country and abandon their legal Read more