The Minnesota Immigrant College Access Movement: History, Policy, and Recommendations to Admissions Councelors (2010). This article from the Journal of College Admissions is an update on the social movement that has transpired in Minnesota for greater access to higher education for more immigrant youth.
Family Immigration: Repairing Our Broken Immigration System (January 2010). Paper by the Immigration Policy Center. Reforming our broken immigration system will require us to transform our family-based immigration system, clear out the backlogs, recapture unclaimed family-based visas, reset numerical caps and allow law-abiding families to reunite with loved ones in a humane and reasonable timeline. This paper lays out the key principles for family immigration within the context of comprehensive immigration reform.
Severing a Lifeline: The Neglect of Citizen Children in America’s Immigration Enforcement Policy (2009)
Dorsey & Whitney LLP and the Urban Institue examine the events surrounding, and impact of, recent worksite and home raids conducted by ICE across the nation, and how immigration raids impact families- especially citizen children.
Immigration Enforcement and Its Unintended Consequences: The Impact on America's Children (March, 2008). Immigration Policy Center. Drawing from a longer, more in-depth study, this document covers immigration raids’ effects on children and short-term recommendations on how to minimize their impact.
Forced Apart: Families Separated and Immigrants Harmed by United States Deportation Policy (July, 2007). Human Rights Watch. Hundreds of thousands of families throughout the United States are being forced apart by punitive and inflexible U.S. deportation policies. Regularly, legal immigrants who have lived in the country for decades with family members who are citizens or lawful permanent residents are being deported from the United States.
Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America's Children (2007). The Urban Institute. Represents a collaborative effort between the Urban Institute and the National Council of La Raza to better understand how many children are potentially at risk of having a parent deported and/or detained as a result of worksite enforcement actions, and the potential impacts of such actions on these children.
Living in the United States: A Guide for Immigrant Youth (2007). Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Helps explain the many ways in which immigration status - whether someone is a green card holder or undocumented - can impact the ability to get a job, go to college, or even remain in the United States.
Report on Somali Youth Issues (January, 2007). Shukri Adan and Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights.
America's Children: Protecting the Rights of Those Born on U.S. Soil (September, 2007). Donald Kerwin America Magazine
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (November, 2006). U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons Report.
The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: New Findings from the Children of Immigrants Logitudinal Study (October, 2006). Migration Information Source.
New Estimates of Unauthorized Youth Eligible for Legal Status Under the DREAM Act. (October, 2006). Migration Policy Institute Backgrounder.
The Multiplier Effect (Summer, 2005). National Foundation for American Policy. An analysis of the educational standing of immigrant children and their contributions to the United States' scientific, mathematical and technological base.