immigrant children

A wide circle of supporters raising money for Axel Pecero’s young son call his arrest and detention ‘heartbreaking.’

Foster advocate Axel Pecero is being held at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center and preparing for the possibility of deportation.

The Trump administration has put a halt on free legal help to unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in the United States, prompting pleas to reinstate that assistance. 

Many immigrant children in Chicago are too anxious to go to school, fearing their parents will be deported.

Swift deportation leaves a family separated, with 8-and 14-year-old boys still in Arizona, and a community working to connect them.

A judge ruled that the Office of Refugee Resettlement must set and abide by clear standards when deciding to detain an immigrant child in a jail-like setting, and must offer an appeals process.

Youth Services Insider took in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing this week on the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program, under which custody of kids at the border is transferred from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).