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DACA Recipients Will Soon Be Eligible for ACA Coverage

DACA Recipients Will Soon Be Eligible for ACA Coverage

Isobel Mohyeddin

May 8, 2024 Ten years after the opening of the health insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable...

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    Caught in an Educational Dragnet: How the School-to-Deportation Pipeline Harms Immigrant Youth and Youth of Color

    Caught in an Educational Dragnet: How the School-to-Deportation Pipeline Harms Immigrant Youth and Youth of Color

    Sarah Kim Pak, Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, and Emma Tynan + 1 more

    May 19, 2022 In 2017, a high school sophomore named Alex doodled the name of his Honduran hometown and his...

    Emergency COVID Grants Are Now Available to Immigrant Students

    Emergency COVID Grants Are Now Available to Immigrant Students

    Sarah Kim Pak

    May 27, 2021 The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently finalized new federal regulations and accompanying frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) guidance that remove the Trump administration’s unfair and unlawful restrictions denying undocumented and other...

    Plyler v. Doe Decision Must Be Honored and Protected

    Plyler v. Doe Decision Must Be Honored and Protected

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Jun 15, 2017 Today marks the 35th anniversary of Plyler v. Doe, the landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that it is unconstitutional for a state to deny students access to public elementary or secondary education based on their immigration...

    School Settings Are Sensitive Locations That Should Be Off-Limits to Immigration Enforcement

    School Settings Are Sensitive Locations That Should Be Off-Limits to Immigration Enforcement

    Jess Hanson

    May 3, 2017 Earlier in this blog series we explored how the current political environment is affecting immigrants in the workplace and immigrants’ access to health care facilities. Today we focus on immigrants’ concerns about sending or taking their...