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UNICEF’s new report, Building Bridges for Every Child: Reception, Care and Services to Support Unaccompanied Children in the United States, considers global discussions on adequate reception and care for unaccompanied migrant and asylum-seeking children. With a focus on practical solutions and promising practices in the U.S. and from around the globe, the report seeks to bridge the worlds of international child rights and protection, immigration and domestic child welfare. It illustrates how reception, care and services for unaccompanied migrant…
This report from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) presents findings from an investigation based on psychological evaluations of asylum-seeking parents and children who were separated by the U.S. government in 2018. The investigation found pervasive symptoms and behaviors consistent with trauma; most met diagnostic criteria for at least one mental health condition, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder,…
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Disability Rights International (DRI) llevó a cabo dos investigaciones en Baja California, México –la primera en noviembre de 2018 y la segunda en febrero de 2019. La Comisión Estatal de los Derechos Humanos de Baja California (CEDH) acompañó a DRI en visitas a cuatro instituciones privadas en las que se encuentran niñas, niños, adolescentes y personas –incluidas personas migrantes– con discapacidad. En estas instituciones DRI documentó casos de tortura y abusos tales como el uso de sujeciones prolongadas y cuartos de aislamiento. DRI encontró particularmente preocupante la…
Introduction
Disability Rights International (DRI) carried out two investigation trips to Baja California, Mexico, in November 2018 and February 2019. DRI was accompanied by the Human Rights Commission of the Mexican State of Baja California (CEDH) and visited four residential, private institutions for children and adults – including migrants - with disabilities. In these institutions DRI found grave instances of torture and abuse, including use of prolonged restraints and isolation rooms. Particularly worrying was the high death rate of children with disabilities at an institution near…
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is an interagency coalition of nearly 100 member organizations working to protect children who face adversity. The Alliance, in response to the current situation of family separation at the U.S. border with Mexico, is calling for urgent action to rapidly reunify separated children with their families and end detention, in accordance with their best interests.
Based on the collective experiences of Alliance members, lessons learned, and accepted standards of care and protection for children, the Alliance urges all responsible…
After the United States Department of Justice announced the “Zero Tolerance Policy for Criminal Illegal Entry,” Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE — an arm of the Department of Homeland Security) separated approximately 2,000 children from their parents in April and May 2018 as they approached the U.S. border. Children and parents were placed in separate facilities as they were being processed and were not told when or how they would be reunited. This policy and its consequences have raised significant concerns among researchers, child welfare advocates, policy makers, and the public,…
This synthesis summarizes the work and findings of a cluster of demonstration projects funded through the Children’s Bureau discretionary grant program. The purpose of this grant cluster was to develop replicable models of systemic change and evidence-based models for placing children and youth with families who could provide permanent family connections. These grants funded multifaceted diligent recruitment (DR) programs for a range of resource families for children in public foster care systems. Resource families were defined as kinship, foster, concurrent, and adoptive families. Grantees…
Resumen ejecutivo
Las autoridades de inmigración de Estados Unidos detienen de manera rutinaria a hombres, mujeres, niños e incluso bebés, en gélidas celdas, a veces durante días, cuando son aprehendidos en la frontera con México y alrededores. Tanto los migrantes como los agentes de la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de EE.UU. (Customs and Border Protection o CBP, por sus siglas en inglés) se refieren generalmente a estas celdas como “hieleras”.
Todos los inmigrantes detenidos tienen derecho a ser tratados con dignidad y humanidad, y los niños, independientemente de que…
Summary
United States immigration authorities routinely detain men, women, and children, including infants, in frigid holding cells, sometimes for days, when they are taken into custody at or near the US border with Mexico. Migrants and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents alike commonly refer to these cells as hieleras (“freezers”).
All immigration detainees have the right to be treated with dignity and humanity, and children, whether unaccompanied or with family members, are entitled to additional safeguards under US and international law. This report…
This report sets forth the 2017 official data on immigration arrests and deportations and details the often-wrenching human impact of Trump’s policies on undocumented immigrants, their families, and their US communities. The latter analysis draws heavily on 43 in-depth Human Rights Watch interviews with long-term immigrants deported since Trump’s election. Taken together, the data and firsthand accounts illustrate how the enforcement machine President Trump has moved so eagerly to accelerate rarely ever considers people’s deep and longstanding ties to the United States before deporting them.…