Other Webinars & Resources
ABA Resources and Partners
Recognizing and Responding to Secondary Trauma (ABA Working Group on Unaccompanied Minor Immigrants Webinar August 24, 2017)
Solo, Small Firm & General Practice Division: Kids In Need of Defense Materials
Summary of Video Presentation: The ABCs of Representing Unaccompanied Children in Removal Proceedings (ABA October 1, 2014)
The ABCs of Representing Unaccompanied Children in Removal Proceedings (ABA Commission on Immigration)
Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth Alone in the Courts (Section of Litigation audio file)
A New Legal Framework for Children Seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (Richmond Public Interest Law Review Volume 20 Issue 1 by Dalia Castillo-Granados and Yasmin Yavar)
A Practice Advisory on Strategies to Combat Government Efforts to Terminate Unaccompanied Children Determinations (May 2017) (Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) Defending Vulnerable Populations Project)
Administrative Relief Resource Center (The Committee for Immigration Reform Implementation)
Apprehended Minors' Right to Government Funded Lawyers
This practice advisory discusses recent developments regarding the representation of minors in immigration proceedings. Although there remains no generally recognized right to counsel at Government expense for immigrant children, there have been litigation and advocacy developments.
Bond Hearings for Detained Unaccompanied Minors
This practice advisory discusses developments and strategies in hearings seeking the release of minors. The Flores v. Sessions certified class action, discussed in detail below, remains pending and active in the US District Court for the Central District of California. The Flores case sets out the standards for the detention of accompanied and unaccompanied minors, and includes a presumption of release to available parents, relatives, friends of parents and non-secure licensed shelters.
Childhood Cut Short: Sexual and Gender-based Violence Against Central American Migrant and Refugee Children (Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) June 2017)
Children at the Border: The Screening, Protection and Repatriation of Unaccompanied Mexican Minors (Appleseed 2011)
Children's Asylum Guidelines from the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
Court win for immigrant-rights attorneys 4/13/2015
Family Preparedness Plan (Immigrant Legal Resource Center)
Getting Off the Assembly Line: Overcoming Immigration Court Obstacles in Individual Cases (Appleseed/Akin Gump 2016)
Immigrant Legal Resource Center: Unacommpanied Immigrant Children Resources
Immigrant Legal Resource Center: Unaccompanied Minors & The New Executive Orders
Navocado: Pilot Immigration Navigator for Pro Bono Attorneys Representing Unaccompanied Children, Stanford Law School and d.school, Legal Design Lab
Protecting Assets and Child Custody in the Face of Deportation (Appleseed 2017)
Representing Immigrant Children: Back to the Beginning by Christina Wilkes and Rachel Zoghlin (August 11, 2016 MSBA Maryland State Bar Association Bar Bulletin)
Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview by William A. Kandel (Congressional Research Service, May 11, 2016)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
National Unaccompanied Children Resource Center
The Vera Institute of Justice partnering with New America has launched the Immigrant Connection Project (ICON) to address the separation of families at the border.
Attorneys or parents seeking children should email [email protected] or [email protected] or call 800-845-8372. More information about this project is available at https://www.vera.org/projects/immigrant-connection-project/immigrant-connection-project-spanish-version