When reflecting on my journey from being an undocumented student arriving in the U.S. without knowing English to serving as Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of English Language Acquisition (O...

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Schools don't track student's immigration status due to federal law that grants undocumented students the right to a free, public education.

By Morgan Craven, J.D. • IDRA Federal Education Law and Policy Update • February 28, 2025 • Executive actions, which ... read more

Federal and state policy efforts targeting immigrant kids are on the rise. The new wave of cruelty includes plans that violate existing law.

Arizona's legislature is set to vote on legislation to pay police $2,500 for every illegal immigrant they help deport, marking it the latest U.S. state to consider bounties to support President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies.

In December 2020, Congress passed the bipartisan FAFSA Simplification Act that mandated a new, simpler Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which overhauled the federal financial aid form...

By now most of us have heard that schools will no longer be off limits for immigration enforcement due to President Trump rescinding a 2011 "sensitive locations" memo that included schools. This is a ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt gave a searing indictment of state Superintendent Ryan Walters' performance as Oklahoma's schools chief.

The U.S. Department of Education today announced it has terminated over $600 million in grants to institutions and nonprofits that were using taxpayer funds to train teachers and education agencies on...

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The lawsuit by advocacy organizations aims to bring back the resettlement of refugees in the United States after President Trump halted the program.

• By Morgan Craven, J.D. • IDRA Newsletter • January 2025 • All families must be part of building excellent ... read more

By now most of us have heard that schools will no longer be off limits for immigration enforcement due to President Trump rescinding a 2011 "sensitive locations" memo that included schools. This is a ...

We all know by now that President-elect Trump has promised the largest deportation program in U.S. history. This understandably has many of our immigrant students and their families worried. Due to Pl...

Two of us from the Immigrant Connections team (Laura Gardner and Karen Brown) attended the Common Ground on the Border conference this past week in Sahuarita, Arizona, which is about a 45 minute drive...

We all know by now that President-elect Trump has promised the largest deportation program in U.S. history. This understandably has many of our immigrant students and their families worried. Due to Pl...