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Unauthorized Families & Unaccompanied Minors. CASA: court appointed Special Advocates for Children June 28, 2016 Los Angeles, California. Today’s agenda:. -- Undocumented immigrants in the U.S., California, and Los Angeles -- Children of unauthorized immigrants U.S. born children
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Unauthorized Families & Unaccompanied Minors CASA: court appointed Special Advocates for Children June 28, 2016 Los Angeles, California
Today’s agenda: • -- Undocumented immigrants in the U.S., California, and Los Angeles • -- Children of unauthorized immigrants • U.S. born children • Unauthorized immigrant youth • -- Unaccompanied child migrants
Legal status categories • Permanent statuses • Including asylum, refugee, LPR • Temporary • Including worker or student visas • Discretionary • Including TPS, DACA, and DAPA (proposed) • And, undocumented
Undocumented Immigrants • United States • -- Approx. 11 million • -- 79% from Latin America, 49% Mexican-born • -- California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois • -- 40% of adults live with U.S. born children, 7% of K-12 students has an undocumented parent • --62% have lived in US for 10+yrs. • CALIFORNIA • --Approx. 2.6 million (25% of national pop.) • --68% Mexican-born • -- Los Angeles hosts largest concentration of undocumented immigrants in CA • --13% of California’s K-12 students has an undocumented parent
LA Unified School District • -- LAUSD represents the second largest school district in the nation • -- 88% students of color, 79% of students qualify for free- or reduced-lunch • -- LAUSD estimates 30-40% of students reside in mixed-status families • --LAUSD declared that it is a ”safe zone” where Immigration and Custom Enforcement officials are unable to enter onto the college campuses
Rights of undocumented immigrants • -- Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) • -- Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) • -- Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA, or Welfare Reform) • -- Affordable Care Act and Driver’s Licenses
Driver’s licenses • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Hawaii • Illinois • Maryland • New Mexico • Nevada • Utah • Vermont • Washington • District of Columbia
U.S.-born Children of Unauthorized Parents • 4.5 mil US born children of undoc. immigrants • -- Burden of Deportation • -- Blocked access to services • -- Cognitive development • -- Education • -- Enforcement • -- Stalled efforts to ameliorate consequences of parents’ undocumented status on U.S.-born children
Unauthorized youth transitioning into adulthood • 775k undocumented immigrant youth • -- 1.5 generation • -- Plyler v. Doe, inclusion to exclusion • -- “Awakening to a nightmare” • -- “Learning to be illegal” • --DREAM Act and the DREAMer Movement
Unaccompanied Minors • > 102,000 unaccompanied Central American and Mexican minors apprehended at the US southern border since 2013 • -- Enter into traditional Central American immigrant destinations, including California • -- Simultaneous removal and integration processes • -- Vulnerable to exploitation, poverty, and marginalization
Questions? Stephanie L. Canizales Stephaniecanizales.com Canizale@usc.edu