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From the American Immigration Council:

“I wanted to be sure to share key updated resources from the American Immigration Council. Last week, we published the fact sheet U.S. Citizen Children Impacted by Immigration Enforcement, which provides an overview of children in the United States who would be adversely affected by the detention or deportation of a family member, as well as how immigration enforcement can impact a child’s development, short-and long-term health, and socioeconomic stability. You can also read more on Immigration Impact, our daily blog.

 

In addition, we recently updated and published the following fact sheets:

• A Primer on Expedited Removal
• Immigration Detainers: An Overview
• The High Costs and Diminishing Returns of a Border Wall
• The Cost of Immigration Enforcement and Border Security

I hope these resources will be helpful in our collective work. Feel free to use and share them with your networks, on social media, etc.

This toolkit helps guide cities through the process of creating sanctuary policies. It is directed especially towards elected officials, but should be helpful for advocates and organizers too. There is also a model bill in the appendix that includes a wide range of provisions related not only to immigration enforcement but also racial justice more broadly. Please share widely.

From Detention Watch Network:

Project South and Penn State Law’s Center for Immigrants’ Rights (on its behalf) released a report titled “Imprisoned Justice: Inside Two Georgia Immigrant Detention Centers.” The report is a product of a one year study and in partnership with several organizations and projects (Alterna, GLAHR, Georgia Detention Watch, and a special student project of Mercer Law School), law students, advocates, attorneys, and current and formerly detained immigrants at the Stewart Detention Center and the Irwin County Detention Center.  Thank you to those on this email who gave their time and expertise to this project. Below you can find the Project South press release.

 

Link to Report: http://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Imprisoned_Justice_Report.pdf

 

Story by Penn State Law’s Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic:

https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/news/immigration-clinic-students-craft-report-georgia-immigration-detention-centers

 

Finally, you can access the library of reports prepared or co-authored by the Penn State Law’s Center for Immigrants’ Rights here: https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/practice-skills/clinics/center-immigrants%E2%80%99-rights-clinic/center-publications

 

Many thanks,

Azadeh & Shoba

Good news! California Psychological Association Reactivates Immigration Task Force!

As we know, the experience of millions of immigrants – those documented and those undocumented – is a major mental health issue in California. Therefore, it is my pleasure to announce, as part of my Presidential initiative on serving and protecting vulnerable children, adults and families, the revival of CPA’s Immigration Task Force (ITF). The ITF will be chaired by Dr. German Cadenas, currently a post-doc at UC Berkeley. Dr. Cadenas has extensive experience in the area of immigration psychology, and will announce the members of his team. The charge of this task force involves assembling resources for psychologists working with immigrant persons and families, and making recommendations for psychologists working with this population.

Douglas C. Haldeman, PhD President, California Psychological Association