By striking down Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, the Court has protected the longstanding principle that children born in this country are entitled to the rights and protections of ...

The ruling reaffirms that babies born on U.S. soil are citizens regardless of their parents’ status, follows other wins for Trump on immigration.

DACA Has Transformed the Lives of Children, Families, and Communities for 14 Years. Since its creation, the DACA program has promoted child well-being by protecting more than 800,000 immigrants who en...

Trump’s militarization was meant to send a message: you don’t belong here. L.A. answered with its own message: we belong to each other.

“Even the Playground Isn’t Safe” focuses on the pervasive fear and uncertainty immigrant parents and their young children have been living with since the beginning of Trump’s second term.

Wendy Hernandez Reyes denies she “abandoned” her son, as ICE claimed. In an extraordinary act, she was allowed to come back to the U.S. for his burial.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS:  Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com  Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org  Washington, DC, Tuesday, May 19—Throu...

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By Wendy Cervantes For over a decade, ICE’s parental interest directive has served as an important tool to ensure that parents impacted by ICE enforcement actions are able to make decisions about thei...

The high court heard arguments in the closely watched case that immigrant advocates say could threaten thousands of children’s educational rights.

Birthright citizenship as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution has ensured the clarity and stability babies and their families need, and those protections should remain.

According to FWD US, Maria de Jesús Estrada Juárez, a mother and DACA recipient, is back home after a federal court ruled her February deportation unlawful.

All children, regardless of immigration status, have the right to a free K-12 public education. But without birthright citizenship, access to schools and colleges could get complicated.

An end to birthright citizenship would mean a new layer of bureaucracy for all babies born in the U.S. and could cause delays for health insurance and other benefits.

A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

While the Trump administration attempts to redirect attention toward foreign crises, its relentless mass deportation agenda continues to devastate American communities at home. The White House’s recen...

First Focus on Children filed an amicus brief in Trump v. Barbara. Here's what we told the Supreme Court.

The Trump birthright citizenship executive order could strip millions of U.S.-born children of citizenship. Learn about the legal, social, and economic implications.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS:  Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com  Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org  Washington, DC, February 10, 2026—As ...

Today, 430+ national, state, and local organizations signed onto a letter urging Congress to protect these sensitive locations as it negotiates DHS funding.

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The Morristown man, a Honduran native, doesn't have a criminal record.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS:  Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com  Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org  Washington, DC, December 19, 2025—Tod...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS:  Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com  Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org  Washington, DC, December 4, 2025—Toda...

CLASP is committed to ensuring that all families are able to meet their basic needs, and we will work alongside our partners to defeat this reckless public charge proposal as we did under the first Tr...