Tip No. 1
Juvenile justice officials should not honor any ICE detainer or hold requests for youth.
In 2014, the Annie E. Casey Foundation issued a report, Noncitizen Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, aimed at ensuring the safe and fair treatment of noncitizen youth in detention. This update picks up where the 2014 report left off. It tells how subsequent policy changes have impacted youth in the juvenile justice system and offers updated advice on working with noncitizen youth and young people with noncitizen family members. The goal? Arm jurisdictions and individual employees with the information needed to craft policies and procedures consistent with the core strategies of the Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative.
Recent shifts in U.S. policy have put noncitizen youth involved in the juvenile justice system at greater risk of arrest, detention and deportation by federal immigration authorities, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Learn about current federal policies on immigration enforcement and hear practice recommendations for working with immigrant youth.
Featuring Angie Junck, supervising attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), and Rachel Prandini, staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the authors of the 2018 update to the JDAI practice guide on working with noncitizen youth in the juvenile justice system.
The webinar opens with remarks from Nate Balis, director, Juvenile Justice Strategy Group at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It's moderated by Marcia Rincon-Gallardo, founder and executive director of NOXTIN: Equal Justice for All.
In today’s climate of increased immigration enforcement, U.S. juvenile justice officials must learn how local immigration policies — or a lack thereof — can seriously and negatively impact the lives of noncitizen youth. This guide, which highlights recent policy changes affecting youth in the juvenile justice system, is a great place to start.