Contact: Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org 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
Contact: Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org 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
Media contact: Archana Pyati, apyati@clasp.org 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
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2024 Contacts: Archana Pyati (apyati@clasp.org / (202) 258-2133); Maya Hixson (maya@zpstrategies.com) 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
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
July 24, 2023 Contact: Archana Pyati at apyati@clasp.org 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
January 26, 2023 Contact: Archana Pyati, apyati@clasp.org Leaders from the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) have expressed concern over a new set of border enforcement measures proposed by the Biden Administration that continue harmful Trump-era immigration policies and are urging the Administration to instead take steps to protect children and Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 8, 2022 Contact: Tom Salyers (tsalyers@clasp.org/ 202- 607-1074); Claudia Hernandez (chernandez@clasp.org/ (619-581-2963) Washington, D.C. — Today, more than 70 national, state, and local children’s advocacy organizations sent letters urging the White House and Senate leadership to pass the Build Back Better Act with a clear pathway to Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 25, 2022 Contact: Tom Salyers (tsalyers@clasp.org/ 202-607-1074); Claudia Hernandez (chernandez@clasp.org/ (619-581-2963) Washington, D.C. — Today, thousands of organizations and individuals are submitting recommendations to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calling for major changes in federal immigration enforcement and greater protections for children in immigrant Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 23, 2021 Contact: Lynn Tramonte (latramonte@gmail.com / 202-255-0551); Claudia Hernandez (chernandez@clasp.org) Washington D.C. – A new analysis indicates that a path to U.S. citizenship would directly impact more than 5 million children with an undocumented parent while also helping fight economic insecurity by lifting more than 250,000 children out of poverty. Around 34% of children with an undocumented parent live in poverty—more than double the 16% national child poverty Read more