How the Administration’s Enforcement Policies Are Separating Families and Harming Unaccompanied Children

From the resource by Kids in Need of Defense:

“This policy brief provides an overview of the expanding ways that the Administration’s policies and actions are tearing families apart and illustrates how the Administration is using government agencies, resources, and staffing to exploit, rather than mitigate, children’s vulnerabilities. It documents how efforts prioritizing the removal of thousands of children from the United States are disregarding children’s rights and safety, deepening trauma, and mounting new barriers to children’s reunification with family and access to humanitarian protection. The brief calls for an urgent return to upholding core values and safeguards that protect family unity, center children’s well-being and best interests, and ensure that children are never returned to trafficking and other harm.”