The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is pleased that the Biden Administration is re-establishing the White House Task Force on New Americans. This critical interagency task force aims to ensure that immigrants–including those newly arrived and those who have long-established roots in the…
CLASP submitted this statement for the record to the House Committee on the Judiciary for the July 27, 2022 markup of the American Families United Act (H.R. 2920). The bill would expand discretion to the Secretary of Homeland Security and Attorney General in removal and…
CLASP submitted this comment on November 29, 2021 in response to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s notice for proposed rulemaking on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
CLASP, First Focus Campaign for Children, and other members of the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) submitted this statement for the record to the Senate Judiciary Committee for the June 15, 2021 hearing on “The American Dream and Promise Act of 2021.”
The reemergence of worksite raids is an example of the Trump Administration’s enforcement-heavy approach that harms not only workers, but also families and communities.
Children of immigrants now comprise one in four of all children in the United States. Hardworking immigrants continue to be humiliated and punished due to an unjust system that relies on and often exploits their labor. Their children, the majority of whom are U.S. citizens, are…
CLASP submitted these comments on December 23, 2019 to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security in opposition to provisions of the published fee schedule that make immigration benefits less accessible to immigrants with low incomes or other vulnerable immigrants.