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Health Experts, Educators, and Advocates Call on the Biden Administration to Expand Legal Pathways to Protect Children and Keep Families Together

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2024 Contacts: Archana Pyati ([email protected] / (202) 258-2133); Maya Hixson ([email protected]) Washington, D.C. — Today, child health and development experts, educators, labor leaders, children and family advocates, and impacted parents called on President Biden to protect the well-being of children in mixed-status immigrant families by using Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 12 monthsMay 13, 2024 ago

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Parole in Place Letter from Child-Focused Organizations

The Center for Law and Social Policy led a group of child-focused organizations to send a letter to the Biden Administration urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to expand existing pathways for administrative immigration relief to promote family unity and provide much-needed relief and stability to children in mixed-status Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 12 monthsMay 13, 2024 ago

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260+ organizations nationwide urge White House and Congress to oppose anti-immigrant policies in supplemental funding negotiations

More than 260 organizations – representing children’s advocacy, health, education, labor, faith, antipoverty, legal, reproductive justice, disability, economic, immigration, nutrition, and academic sectors – signed onto a letter urging the Biden administration and Congress to oppose anti-immigrant and anti-asylum policies – including proposals that would further restrict asylum, expand expedited Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 1 yearDecember 15, 2023 ago

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Child Advocates Call for an End to Cruelty on Migrant Families

July 24, 2023 Contact: Archana Pyati at [email protected] Members of the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) have expressed alarm over reports of asylum seekers, including nursing mothers, pregnant women, and young children, being subjected to harm at the Texas border under Governor Abbott’s border security initiative. The disturbing reports include Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 2 yearsJuly 24, 2023 ago

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Child Tax Credit State Fact Sheets

Every child must have access to critical supports. Congress must take action to create a permanent solution to fight poverty for all children in the United States, including by permanently expanding the child tax credit (CTC) to include all children. Nationally, restoring eligibility for the CTC would impact over one Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 2 yearsJuly 12, 2023 ago

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Child-Focused DACA Health Coverage Organizational Sign-On Comment

85 organizations dedicated to the health and well-being of children wrote in response to the Biden’s administration’s proposed rule to expand health care coverage to DACA recipients. The comment highlights the impact improved access to health care coverage will have on the well-being of DACA recipients as well as that of their Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 2 yearsJune 23, 2023 ago

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Organizational Sign-On Letter on Sinema-Tillis Bill

More than 170 national, state, and local organizations have signed the below letter expressing our strong opposition to S.1473, introduced by Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), as well as the House companion bill H.R. 3234. Our organizations represent children’s advocates, health care providers, teachers, unions, parents, faith-based organizations, service Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 2 yearsMay 11, 2023 ago

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CTAN Asylum Ban Toolkit

Please use our toolkit to take action to demand that the Biden Administration do away with its plans to dismantle asylum at the southern border. Advocates need to be on record against this proposed rule. More submitted comments will make a more powerful case for why the Biden Administration should not go Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 2 yearsMarch 10, 2023 ago

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Children’s Advocates Urge the Administration to Abandon Harmful Policies and Strengthen the Asylum System

January 26, 2023 Contact: Archana Pyati, [email protected] Leaders from the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) have expressed concern over a new set of border enforcement measures proposed by the Biden Administration that continue harmful Trump-era immigration policies and are urging the Administration to instead take steps to protect children and Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 2 yearsJanuary 26, 2023 ago

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Kids and Families Need a Path to Citizenship for DACA Recipients and Undocumented Youth

Over the past ten years, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has changed the lives of nearly 800,000 recipients and their families by removing the threat of family separation and improving their economic security. Recent court rulings have barred new applicants for DACA, although current recipients can still Read more…

By Children Thrive Action Network, 2 yearsNovember 10, 2022 ago