What Will Deportations Mean for the Child Welfare System?

With the Trump administration directing substantial government resources to try and enact its mass deportation agenda, CMS and the Center for Economic Security and Opportunity, Brookings Institution, have released a brief estimating that:

• 3.8 percent of all US citizen children (2.7 million) are at risk of being left with no parents in their home under a mass deportation scenario.
• The child welfare system is neither required nor well-equipped to handle a large influx of US citizen children who are separated from their parents due to immigration enforcement.

This brief was produced in partnership with the Center for Economic Security and Opportunity, Brookings Institution. You can also find the brief published on their website here.

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