En el 2019, más de 1 en cada 4 niños en EEUU (26 por ciento o aproximadamente 18 millones) vivían con al menos un padre inmigrante. Se estima que más de 5 millones de niños menores de 17 años tienen al menos un padre indocumentado. Cada niño y niña merece un paso seguro a la edad adulta con el apoyo de familias y comunidades amorosas.
More than 1 in 4 (26 percent), or approximately 18 million, U.S. children lived with at least one immigrant parent in 2019. And more than 5 million children ages 17 and under are estimated to have at least one undocumented parent. Every child deserves a successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
En el 2019, más de 1 en cada 4 niños en EEUU (26 por ciento o aproximadamente 18 millones) vivían con al menos un padre inmigrante. Se estima que más de 5 millones de niños menores de 17 años tienen al menos un padre indocumentado. Cada niño y niña merece un paso seguro a la edad adulta con el apoyo de familias y comunidades amorosas.
More than 1 in 4 (26 percent), or approximately 18 million, U.S. children lived with at least one immigrant parent in 2019. And more than 5 million children ages 17 and under are estimated to have at least one undocumented parent. Every child deserves a successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
The Build Back Better Act will boost families’ economic stability and reduce racial inequities in income, housing, education, and health care that harm Black and brown children every day. By passing this critical legislation, we are finally meaningfully investing in our children and families.
Since the Children’s Defense Fund last published our annual State of America’s Children report in February 2020, our children have experienced a year of unprecedented upheaval due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a racial reckoning years in the making. Every aspect of children’s lives has been impacted by these shifts more quickly than data can track; even the most recent available data sets do not fully encompass how this past year has shaped our lives. This, of course, includes our 2021 State of America’s Children report. Because, as one element of the report makes clear, “Our Children are Not Immune.”
Many of us have already urged the Senate to adopt specific policies, including reversal of the Trump administration’s public charge policy and inclusive provisions of the HEROES Act legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May. Since then, while the Senate has failed to act, the COVID-19 death count has doubled, and millions of working families have lost the enhanced unemployment and other financial lifelines then in place. Congress must take immediate action to address the pandemic and to provide support to all individuals and families, including immigrant families.
We, the undersigned 56 organizations, write to request an investigation into serious and flagrant problems in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) expulsion of unaccompanied children (UCs). We are especially concerned by DHS’s use of extended involuntary stays for UCs in hotels under the custody of the contractor MVM Inc. DHS and its contractors have violated the rights of unaccompanied children. It is imperative that OIG and CRCL give as full an account as possible as to these practices and how they have been committed.
CDF joined nearly 800 organizations in urging Congress to address the exclusion of immigrant families, workers, taxpayers, and their U.S. children and spouses, from the CARES Act and other COVID-19 recovery packages passed by Congress in the next pandemic relief legislation. Immigrants have been left out of every relief package so far, even though they are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and are risking their health and safety as essential workers during the pandemic. We cannot let immigrants be excluded from relief again. If our nation wants to recover from this economic and public health crisis, we must ensure that everyone is included
94 child welfare, health, and safety experts write to ICE after witnessing this administration’s continued systematic implementation of practices to separate immigrant families. Amidst the backdrop of a public health crisis, we must renew our shared concern that your agency will harm children by taking them from their parents in order to deter or punish families who come to this country seeking protection .