Immigration
From the introduction: “The incoming federal administration has promised a set of actions focused on mass deportations as well as aggressive and harsh immigration policies. If implemented, the human cost to immigrant New Yorkers will be staggering. Community-based organizations and nonprofits provide mission-driven services to hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the state. Many in…
Abstract: “The impact of immigration policies on Latinx/é mixed-status families and their children is undeniable. Changes in immigration policy, focused on increased deportation enforcement, within the last three decades have led to an increased fear of deportation and unique circumstances mixed-status families must navigate. These circumstances, combined with fear of deportation, have had deleterious effects…
From the abstract: “In this report, we invite readers to explore the historical, racialized, disablist, and political economic contexts of mass incarceration, including the ways that incarceration has expanded beyond prisons, jails, and correctional supervision in the 21st century. As well, publics often think of incarceration narrowly, such that they make invisible the containment of…
From the introduction: “Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) provides a pathway to a green card for young people who have been ‘abandoned, abused, or neglected’ by a parent. ‘Abandoned, abused, or neglected’ are legal terms that have different definitions in each state.”
From the introduction: “This brief, along with others in the series, explains the importance of distinguishing between adults and children in immigration court by examining best practices established by science as well as in related, domestic legal fields such as juvenile justice.”
From the introduction: “In collaboration with the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), the Child Health Immigration Research Team based out of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Asylum Clinic at the MGH Center for Global Health and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, analyzed the medical…
From the introduction: “In the legal field, trauma-informed care relates to how we, as legal practitioners, communicate with, listen to, empower, and support our clients. Trauma-informed lawyering entails that we, as lawyers, understand that our clients have undergone trauma and that we want to represent our clients in a way that provides safety, trust, and…
This research report by the ACLU provides an overview of surveillance technology (“EdTech Surveillance”) industry in K-12 schools and critically explores the industry’s claims, the efficacy of the products, and their impacts on students and schools. The report also provides recommendations for best protecting students and promoting better surveillance technology decision-making among elected officials, school…
From the executive summary: “• Police increasingly replace stop-and-frisk practices with databases that crudely profile Black and Latinx youth based on their neighborhoods, peer groups, and clothing. • These databases ruin lives: police typecast minority youths as gang members without evidence, putting them at risk of false arrest and wrongful deportation. • Many police departments…
From the introduction: “This Advisory is a collaboration between legal and medical experts, published in two parts. Part I (this Part), is entitled Immigration Law Penalties for Substance and Alcohol Use Disorders. It reviews the several immigration law penalties associated with substance use disorder and alcohol use disorder (SUD and AUD, respectively), the role of…
From the introduction: “This Advisory is a collaboration between experts in immigration law and in medicine, published in two parts. Part I (the prior Part) is entitled Immigration Law Penalties for Substance or Alcohol Use Disorder. It reviews the several immigration law penalties associated with substance use disorder and alcohol use disorder (SUD and AUD,…
