Policy

The Immigrant Children's Project seeks to enhance governmental policies, both legislative and administrative, regarding the legal status of unaccompanied migrant children and their access to government social services.

Legal status issues include standards for arrest, conditions of detention, rules regarding release from custody, access to avenues to legalize status, labor and educational rights, right to guardians, etc.

Social services issues include unaccompanied minors' access to juvenile dependency courts, foster care, education, etc.

The project also seeks to examine international laws and their impact on the rights unaccompanied migrant children may be able to exercise.