Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

When parents are detained or deported by American immigration officials, their children can end up in a highly unstable situation, with child welfare officials forced to quickly find a safe place for them to live until they can be together with their parents again.

The Trump administration insists, without evidence, that the thousands of Central American migrants arriving at America’s southern border include scores of criminals and terrorists. But those on the ground in border states tell a different story.

The Trump Administration’s “anti-immigrant sentiment” is engendering heightened levels of stress and anxiety among children of immigrant families and is keeping kids from accessing healthcare and attending school, according to a new report from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP).