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August 26, 2026 | Testimony/Comments | Vanessa Meraz

CLASP Comments on the Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule; Sponsor Assessment Update

CLASP submitted a comment opposing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) proposing changes to the Unaccompanied Children Program through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). The rule would create additional requirements in sponsor assessment to include restrictive proof…

August 13, 2026 | Testimony/Comments | Ashley Burnside

CLASP Comments on TANF Immigration Data Sharing with DHS

CLASP submitted comments opposing a new federal policy that would allow citizenship and immigration data from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to be shared with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The comments warn that expanded data sharing could deter eligible immigrant…

August 13, 2025 | Testimony/Comments | Wendy Cervantes

CLASP Opposes Interpretation of “Federal public benefit” Under PRWORA

CLASP writes in opposition to the harmful new interpretation the Department of Health and Human Services is taking in regard to the definition of a “Federal public benefit” under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

May 29, 2025 | Testimony/Comments | Wendy Cervantes

CLASP Comments on the Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule

CLASP submitted a comment in response to a new rule issued by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) that gives Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) broad access to the immigration status of sponsors and families of unaccompanied children for enforcement purposes and removes safeguards against…

April 11, 2025 | Testimony/Comments | Priya Pandey

CLASP Submits Public Comments Strongly Opposing New Rule from Department of Homeland Security

CLASP submitted comments in response to an interim final rule from the Department of Homeland Security for the new registration requirement for noncitizens. We are strongly opposed to this new rule and urge the government to withdraw the rule in its entirety. Our comment particularly…

March 27, 2023 | Testimony/Comments | Suma Setty

CLASP Opposes the Proposed Asylum Ban

CLASP strongly opposes the proposed asylum ban.

January 25, 2022 | Testimony/Comments | Juan Carlos Gomez

CLASP Responds to the Request for Recommendations to Support the Work of the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families

CLASP, along with First Focus on Children, Children’s Defense Fund, The Children’s Partnership, and Save the Children, submitted this comment on January 24, 2022 in response to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) request for public input in supporting the work of the Interagency…

January 13, 2022 | Testimony/Comments | Juliana Zhou

CLASP Responds to Visas: Ineligibility Based on Public Charge Grounds; DOS Docket No. DOS-2021-0034

By Juliana Zhou and Elizabeth Lower-Basch 

August 23, 2021 | Testimony/Comments | Jesse Fairbanks

CLASP Responds to Reinstatement of HUD’s Discriminatory Effects Standard, Docket No. FR-6251-P-01

Standardized enforcement of the Fair Housing Act’s (FHA) long-held discriminatory effects liability is necessary to uncover policies and practices that have an unjustified discriminatory effect—regardless of intent—and legally require that the practice be replaced.

July 7, 2021 | Testimony/Comments | Kayla Tawa

CLASP Responds to Methods and Leading Practices for Advancing Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through Government, OMB Doc. No. 2021-09109

By CLASP, the Community Partnership Group (CPG), and New Deal for Youth (ND4Y) Changemakers 

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