This fight is far from over, and CLASP stands ready to work with partners to ensure that impacted families and service providers are informed about their rights.
By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Sol Amaya, CNN (EXCERPT) “The childcare sector broadly has long been facing a crisis and a shortage of workers. And immigrant workers are critical to keeping that system running. Both the formal sector and the informal sector,” Wendy Cervantes, director of Immigration and…
By New York Times (EXCERPT) “So they’re going to need to look to other programs, or just cut the funding for undocumented immigrants, which is going to have an impact on everyone in that family, including citizen family members,” said Wendy Cervantes, the director of immigration…
Wendy Cervantes was a guest on Breaking Through, a podcast hosted by founder of MomsRising Kristen Rowe-Finkbeiner. The episode, “Moms Equal Pay Day, Families Over Billionaires, How Medicaid Lifts Rural Moms & Families,” discusses how the Trump administration is using tax dollars for human rights…
By Suzanne Gamboa and Carmen Sesin (Excerpt) “Generally, parents are more willing to allow older U.S. citizen children, more so than younger children, to remain in the U.S., said Wendy Cervantes, director of immigration and immigrant families at the Center for Law and Social Policy, an anti-poverty…
The Trump birthright citizenship executive order could strip millions of U.S.-born children of citizenship. Learn about the legal, social, and economic implications.
By Jaimie Seaton NASW 2025 spring issue leading magazine article focuses on mass deportation and impact on kids and families, and quotes Wendy Cervantes on the impacts to kids and families as well as CLASP’s work on protected areas. Read the full article here
By Tyler Hicks (Excerpt) “Wendy Cervantes says these changes have been made so that immigrant families are “attacked from every angle”. Cervantes is the director of immigration and immigrant families at The Center for Law and Social Policy, and her team recently held a webinar…
On Friday May 2 Wendy Cervantes will be speaking at the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota for a panel titled, “The Role of Research in Immigration Advocacy: How Science Can Support the Well-Being of Immigrant Children.” Find…