By removing those protections, the final rule creates confusion and uncertainty that will most likely discourage many immigrant families from seeking health care, nutrition assistance, housing supports, and other essential services.
By Emma Gallegos Excerpt: “The kids that are in detention in these facilities, they’re losing their childhoods every single day that they’re in there,” said Wendy Cervantes, who oversees research and advocacy of immigrant families at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Law and Social Policy.…
By Stephen Dinan Excerpt: The Center for Law and Social Policy, which filed comments opposing the new rule, said parents may also forgo care for their children. “We have seen this chilling effect before. The result is that children miss out on the care and services…
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 U.S. citizenship regardless of their parents’ immigration status.
By Valentina Palm Excerpt: Birthright citizenship ruling: What people are saying The Center for Law and Social Policy, a Washington nonprofit: “Had birthright citizenship been narrowed, hundreds of thousands of babies born in the United States each year could have faced uncertainty about their citizenship status…
By Jo Napolitano Excerpt: Wendy Cervantes, a director at The Center for Law and Social Policy, said the birthright ruling was important for several reasons, primarily because it was “fundamentally about how our country treats babies in the earliest days of life.” She notes it has…
By Sara Kellner Excerpt: “Birthright citizenship provides clarity and stability at birth, helping ensure infants can access essential screenings, vaccinations and medical care without new barriers or uncertainty regarding their citizenship status,” Wendy D. Cervantes, MA, told Healio. “The stakes in this case were profound,” Cervantes, director of immigration…
Wendy Cervantes addresses strategies that advocates can take to support immigrant families at the local and state level as well as how to encourage Congress to protect education access for all students.
“Part of that mass deportation agenda is to basically dismantle the legal immigration system,” said Wendy Cervantes, director of the Immigration and Immigrant Families team at the Center for Law and Social Policy. “But we know that everything from the efforts to dismantle birthright citizenship,…
Today, CLASP released two new reports highlighting the impacts of the Trump Administration's 2025 immigration policies on young children and early care and education providers