The places where our children grow, dream, and belong should always be protected. They deserve to feel safe in spaces that are made for them.

ICE plans a 24/7 hotline to "track down" unaccompanied kids. NCYL's Neha Desai: “These children are then re-detained in a system that has become nearly impossible to exit.” Children deserve care and stability, not surveillance and fear. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨 Together, NCYL and @acaciajustice.bsky.social released companion reports exposing recent ORR policy changes preventing unaccompanied children’s release from custody and highlighting the devastating consequences of these children’s prolonged custody. Read more: youthlaw.org/news/two-new...

🚨 BREAKING: A district court has blocked the Trump admin from expelling Guatemalan children from the U.S. without due process. Every child deserves safety, dignity, and healing. We are proud to represent these children with @nilc.org and @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social. youthlaw.org/news/advocat...

Judge Kelly asked about Drew Ensign’s prior representation that “all of these children have their parents or guardians in Guatemala who are requesting their return.” Sarah Welch, for DOJ, agreed to withdraw that claim, saying she “can’t affirmatively represent that that is correct.”

Today is a win for due process, but this never should have happened. This admin's attempt to remove hundreds of kids in the dead of night and circumvent the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act is shameful. The courts were right to step in. www.cbsnews.com/news/guatema...

“Unaccompanied children are being used as pawns in an effort to deport as many people as possible, regardless of the human toll it takes on the most vulnerable members of our community.” - Neha Desai from @youthlaw.bsky.social Big scoop from @cnn.com's Priscilla Alvarez ↘️

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Detaining families in unlicensed, unregulated facilities for an unlimited time is a human rights violation—plain and simple. The Senate budget bill enables that cruelty. ✊🏽 Children deserve care, not cages. 📢 Tell Congress: NO on the budget bill. youthlaw.org/voteno

The Senate budget bill lets the government detain immigrant families indefinitely in unlicensed facilities. This is a direct threat to children’s health and safety. Congress must reject this cruelty. 📢 Tell Congress: NO on the budget bill. youthlaw.org/voteno

If you have been wondering how you can help in this moment, here is a place to start: The Senate budget bill guts key protections for detained immigrant children and allows indefinite family detention in unlicensed facilities. Tell Congress to vote NO on the budget bill 👇

🚨 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

Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

BREAKING: Flores counsel — NCYL, @chrclla.bsky.social‬ & @childrens-rights.bsky.social‬ — filed a motion to enforce protections for immigrant children, exposing prolonged detention, filthy conditions, family separation & abuse. The gov't is failing children. Read more: youthlaw.org/news/amid-go...

Last week: The Trump admin went to court to end basic humanitarian standards for children in immigration custody. This week: A pregnant mother and her family - including an 11-month old - were held by CBP for 24 days in a windowless cell. When someone shows you their plan, believe them.

👉 Today, the Trump administration filed a motion in court to end the Flores Settlement - an agreement that provides basic safeguards for the treatment of children in federal immigration custody. Why does this matter? Let’s break it down: 🧵👇

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.

NEW: Today, the Trump admin filed to end the Flores Settlement-an agreement that provides basic safeguards for children in federal immigration custody. We, @chrclla.bsky.social & @childrens-rights.bsky.social will keep fighting to defend these children’s health & safety. youthlaw.org/news/trump-a...

If Trump can undermine due process for immigrants here legally, he can do the same to you. What happens when he disagrees with you? What happens if he doesn’t like what you say? He’ll come after you just like he has to so many others. We must stand up for our collective rights.

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.

BREAKING: Immigrant children are being detained in U.S. custody for months—even when their families are ready to bring them home. NCYL and @democracyforward.org just filed a class action lawsuit against HHS to stop it. Read more here: youthlaw.org/news/new-law...

"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.

The reconciliation package would also charge anyone who wants to sponsor an unaccompanied child out of an ORR shelter $8,500(!), of which $5,000 would be reimbursed years later if the child was not ordered deported "in absentia" for missing court. That's a price that would stop nearly all sponsors.

Children, no matter where they come from, deserve to live free from fear, with their families, safe in their communities. No child should ever dread going to school or outside to play thinking that ICE might deport them or their loved ones.

Because of the administration's harmful cuts to legal services funding for kids, immigrant children are left without support and representation. Our own Neha Desai, Managing Director of Children's Rights and Human Dignity, spoke with @cnn.com: edition.cnn.com/2025/04/17/p...

Trump’s State Department found no evidence linking Rumeysa Ozturk to antisemitic activity or terrorism, but ICE snatched her off the street and dispatched her to a prison 1,000 miles away with no hearing. This is a hallmark of fascist regimes and utterly incompatible with Due Process.

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

Now more than ever, defending the rights and safety of unaccompanied children is critical. In @hirono.senate.gov's press release, NCYL's @melissaadamson.bsky.social highlights the importance of this vital bill...

Big thanks to @hirono.senate.gov for being a champion for unaccompanied children! 👏 Legal representation is absolutely critical to ensuring these children's safety and welfare.

Go jumbos! 👏🐘

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Proud to be a Berkeley Law alum #gobears 🐻

Again, the fascism is already upon us.

No child should ever face a heartless immigration system without a lawyer by their side. Swipe through to learn how to take action. Take action: tinyurl.com/protect-kids Learn more: tinyurl.com/ucpwebinar Support us: immdef.org/donate

Today the Trump administration abruptly cut funding for lawyers working with unaccompanied immigrant children. This action threatens to unlawfully deprive ~26k kids of legal representation during their immigration proceedings. NIJC's executive director responds: immigrantjustice.org/press-releas...

Today, we're in court with co-counsel — Children's Rights & the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law — to fight to keep protections for children held in federal immigration custody. These protections are needed now more than ever.

We stand alongside our partners in condemning the passage of the #LakenRileyAct — legislation that will gravely harm children. Subjecting anyone – especially youth – to mandatory imprisonment without a charge or conviction is unprecedented and horrifying. childrenthriveaction.org/2025/01/chil...

The Laken Riley Act just passed Congress. Here is our statement:

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...

The #LakenRileyAct will inflict grave harm on undocumented children and youth. We know it will lead to the detention of children in dangerous facilities, even without them being convicted of a crime. There are many ways this could impact youth. A thread… 1/5

The #LakenRileyAct will lead to the arrest and indefinite, mandatory detention of immigrant children in dangerous facilities - without any judicial finding that a criminal offense has been committed. We urge U.S. Senators to vote NO. Ask them to vote no: https://buff.ly/3q6rF2s