Mishan Wroe

🚨 The Senate budget bill puts immigrant children in grave danger.

It guts key protections, allows indefinite family detention in unlicensed facilities, and increases children’s risk of abuse, and exploitation.

📢 Tell Congress: NO on the budget bill. youthlaw.org/voteno

Many people wonder what they can do to help - here is something you can do to help. Call Congress. Tell them this budget does not reflect our values. action.youthlaw.org/a/stand-up-f...

Grateful to @salonnewsroom.bsky.social for covering our case which seeks to end a different kind of family separation. And in awe of the brave kids who filed this litigation for themselves and for their peers.

In a widely-expected move, the Trump admin is making yet another effort to terminate the Flores Settlement, which since the 1990s has imposed limitations on the government's treatment of children in immigration detention.

They lost every effort to do this in Trump's first term.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 The Trump Administration just filed a motion to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, a 1997 landmark court order that protects children in immigration detention. An end to Flores would put kids in danger of indefinite detention and subject them to cruel & inhumane treatment.

🚨BREAKING🚨 The Administration just filed a motion to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, a 1997 landmark court order that protects children in immigration detention. An end to Flores would put immigrant children in danger of indefinite detention and subject them to cruel and inhuman treatment

"Eviscerating the rudimentary protections that these children have is unconscionable. At this very moment, babies and toddlers are being detained in family detention, and children all over the country are being detained and separated from their families unnecessarily." @mishanw.bsky.social

Here we go again...

“I just want to be with my family.”

Quotes from children held in government custody make one thing clear: they want to go home. New HHS rules are keeping them trapped.

NCYL and @democracyforward.org have filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop this.
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Migrant children languish in custody for months because of new federal rules, lawsuit says New rules require families who want to reunify with migrant children to provide proof of income and U.S. identification and, often, to take a DNA test.

“When a child is denied release to a parent just because their only form of ID is a foreign passport, it’s hard to see this as anything more than making life as hard as possible for the immigrant families who seek safety in our country.” @mishanw.bsky.social , NCYL
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Deeply grateful to the brave children and their families who made this case possible. @youthlaw.bsky.social is ready to keep fighting to get these kids home to their families.

Immigrant Kids Trapped in U.S. Custody: The Hidden Crisis Inside the Office of Refugee Resettlement A new form of family separation has been quietly engineered at the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Unaccompanied Minors program, the HHS office responsible for the care and custody of immigrant child...

"Children in government care are now isolated—from their families, from lawyers and other professionals who can help them ..."

Trump regime’s polices are prolonging children detention & making it nearly impossible for many families to reunite.

Cruelty is always their point.

Restore Legal Services for Unaccompanied Children This week, the government froze legal services for unaccompanied children, leaving over 26,000 children without access to their legal counsel. This strands children, some as young as toddlers, without...

Take action today by contacting your members of Congress here: actionnetwork.org/letters/rest...

As Flores and Lucas R. counsel we know how critical access to independent attorneys is for the safety of children in federal immigration detention. Stripping children of access to counsel is cowardly and cruel. I'm so proud to work at @youthlaw.bsky.social with my amazing colleagues.

Judge extends court-monitoring agreement for children in Customs and Border Protection custody A federal judge filed a last-minute order extending a court agreement ensuring protections for children in federal custody the day after it ended.

Just in: A federal judge extended a court agreement on Thursday ensuring safe and sanitary conditions for migrant children in federal custody a day after CBP was set to begin self-monitoring in El Paso and RGV sectors.

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The Laken Riley Act Harms Immigrant Children, And It’s Only the Beginning | Common Dreams Policymakers on both sides of the political aisle seem all too eager to support legislation that ignores that immigrant children are human beings, worthy of the same care and protections that their…

At @commondreams.org.web.brid.gy, NCYL's Neha Desai and @melissaadamson.bsky.social write about how the #LakenRileyAct is a harmful bill that could force a migrant child merely charged with stealing a lollipop into indefinite detention. Read their analysis:

Children are often left ‘unrepresented and unseen’ in Colorado’s municipal courts Our report on Lakewood (CO) municipal courts highlights systemic harms and offers reforms applicable to all communities

Students as young as 10, accused of school-based misbehavior, were ticketed by Colorado law enforcement more than 4,800 times in the 2022–23 school year alone. Read more from NCYL Attorney Hong Le on how these tickets can harm youth well into adulthood:

YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley Conversation with National Center for Youth Law – Major Flaws in Laken Riley Act

The #LakenRileyAct will lead to the arrest and indefinite, mandatory detention of immigrant children in dangerous facilities - without charges or any judicial finding. We urge Reps to vote NO. Watch our conversation with Senator Jeff Merkley to learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkq6...

Our Mishan Wroe stresses to the @nytimes the importance of having pediatricians monitor the conditions in which youth are held in federal immigration custody...