Resources Reports
Our reports on women, children and families in immigration detention have led to changes in immigration policy and practice in the U.S. Read our landmark studies that have resulted in these changes.
Five million children in the U.S. have at least one undocumented parent and three million of these children are U.S. citizens. Immigrant parents who are detained or deported risk losing their U.S. citizen children. This report outlines this loss of parental rights and contains recommendations to remedy the situation.
Violence in three Central American countries is the primary reason behind a dramatic upsurge in the number of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the border into the United States, and until conditions in these countries change substantially, this trend will be the new norm. The U.S. government is responsible for protecting children who are apprehended alone or without caregivers but has struggled to deal with the influx.
Five million children in the U.S. have at least one undocumented parent and three million of these children are U.S. citizens. Immigrant parents who are detained or deported risk losing their U.S. citizen children. This executive summary of our report Torn Apart by Immigration Enforcement: Parental Rights and Immigration Detention outlines this loss of parental rights and contains recommendations to remedy the situation.
This report details findings from an assessment of the Etowah County Detention Center in Alabama, which houses both criminal inmates and immigrant detainees. The Women's Refugee Commission found that, disturbingly, the conditions of confinement at Etowah do not meet ICE's OWN detention standards. Read more...
