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 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 Read more…
The Center for Law and Social Policy led a group of child-focused organizations to send a letter to the Biden Administration urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to expand existing pathways for administrative immigration relief to promote family unity 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 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 Read more…
85 organizations dedicated to the health and well-being of children wrote in response to the Biden’s administration’s proposed rule to expand health care coverage to DACA recipients. The comment highlights the impact improved access to health care coverage will have on the Read more…
More than 170 national, state, and local organizations have signed the below letter expressing our strong opposition to S.1473, introduced by Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), as well as the House companion bill H.R. 3234. Our organizations represent children’s Read more…
Please use our toolkit to take action to demand that the Biden Administration do away with its plans to dismantle asylum at the southern border. Advocates need to be on record against this proposed rule. More submitted comments will make a more 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 Read more…
Over the past ten years, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has changed the lives of nearly 800,000 recipients and their families by removing the threat of family separation and improving their economic security. Recent court rulings have Read more…