New research reveals the profound impact on mixed-status families—where at least one family member lacks legal immigration status. 🧵 Marrying a U.S. citizen does NOT automatically grant a green card. These families face deportation threats that fundamentally reshape how they live, parent, and cope.

Research shows that mixed-status families, families with at least one undocumented person, experience high rates of fear of going out into public. Here are the facts from a recent @urbaninstitute.bsky.social study, which found that... 🧵

Caregivers affidavits are essential to safeguard children whose parents have been snatched up by ICE. Copies are easily available online and should be handed out at every Know Your Rights training session.

Now that kids are back in school, mixed-status families have to prepare for the worst: what if ICE arrests dad or mom while the kids are at school? What happens if children arrive home and no one is there? Deportation affects all of us, not just immigrants. @npr.org www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Huge thank you to @repbonamici.bsky.social for saying this out loud! At American Families United, we work hard to support US citizens and their immigrant partners who face family separation due to out outdated immigration laws. Mixed-status families *have* to be a part of our national conversation.

Can't wait to learn more about this research! Thank you for sharing, @rosinalozano.bsky.social. Please connect us to Dra. Ana when you have a chance.

Thanks for the shout out, @clancyny.bsky.social!

Deportations don't just impact immigrants—they impact citizens, too. @fwd.us says 11.3M U.S. citizens and 2.4M LPRs live in mixed-status households w/ at least one undocumented spouse, parent, or child. Follow me here for more facts about our families and learn more at www.fwd.us/news/mixed-s....

“My kids put their hands up against his hand through the glass window with tears in their eyes.” That’s from a real story of US citizen wife and children visiting their husband/father in detention this week — and it’s a story that is becoming too common.

Hi, Bluesky! My name is Ashley DeAzevedo & I'm the Director of American Families United. This is my first post 🎉 and I’m excited to connect with everyone here. I'm from New Jersey. I'm a mom, wife, proud Catholic, small business owner, and I haven't given up hope in the promise of America.