The article Children of the State discusses the difficulties faced by Texas’ Child Protective Services when it comes to taking care of undocumented children. While child welfare is handled by the states, immigration is handled by the federal government, leading to conflict when these two spheres overlap. Indeed, new federal rules that are designed to [...]
David B. Thronson, from the William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV, published an interesting article in the Ohio State Law Journal entitled: Kids Will Be Kids? Reconsidering Conceptions of Children’s Rights Underlying Immigration Law.
The Article’s Abstract:
Deeply ingrained ideas about children’s rights, often unacknowledged and unexamined, shape the way children are perceived and [...]
In her article, Unborn v. Undocumented: A Collision of Policy and Politics, Patricia Gray highlights a likely unintended consequence of the expansion of SCHIP to unborn children: the expansion of SCHIP benefits for prenatal care to undocumented women. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federal health benefits since they are unable to furnish social [...]
The politics of immigration - so often long on moral indignation and short on practical evaluation - often obscure the unique plight of immigrant children. The University of Chicago Magazine highlights Maria Woltjen’s work with such children in the Law School’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic in Nobody’s child.
Woltjen remembers one boy from India who was [...]
