This week: Deportation and the road home
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RECENTLY FROM CLASP
December 14, 2023
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Broken Hope: Deportation and the Road Home
What if you were forced to pack your belongings and leave your family, friends, career, home, and life behind? That is what deportation is. This issue brief summarizes the new book Broken Hope: Deportation and the Road Home [[link removed]] , a collaboration between the Ohio Immigrant Alliance (OHIA) and CLASP that highlights the experiences, hopes, and dreams of 255 people who were deported from both the United States and their loved ones. They are part of OHIA’s #ReuniteUS campaign, which seeks to change policy so that more people who were deported can return.
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Aligning State Health and Human Services, Nutrition, Child Care, and Paid Family and Medical Leave
To improve economic, social, and health outcomes for our country’s youngest children and their families, CLASP explored the value and importance of integrating or aligning programs that support families with infants and toddlers.
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CLASP calls on White House, Congress not to use asylum seekers as bargaining chips
CLASP is deeply disturbed by a report that the White House is considering implementing even more restrictions on asylum and expanding fast-track deportation in negotiations to secure support for the supplemental foreign aid funding bill.
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CLASP analyzed updated data related to Economic Justice, Healing and Well-being, and Safe Communities for youth and young adults. CLASP and New Deal for Youth began tracking this data in 2020, and even in this relatively brief period, the outlook in many of these areas has worsened over time.
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CLASP in the News
DECEMBER 14, 2023 | BALTIMORE BANNER
Maryland isn’t paying back all the stolen SNAP benefits it should [[link removed]]
Recent Events
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December 14: Cara Brumfield spoke on a panel hosted by PRB and Young Invincibles about new research [[link removed]] on the well-being of young women.
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December 5: Deanie Anyangwe, Kayla Tawa, and Isha Weerasinghe presented "Making the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Mental Health Provisions Work for Black and Brown Youth" at the National Center for School Mental Health conference in New Orleans.
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December 5: Rricha deCant spoke [[link removed]] on the “Advancing Justice: Opportunities for Advocacy” panel at a convening of young people and young parents hosted by the Center for the Study of Social Policy.
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November 30: Elizabeth Lower-Basch presented on a webinar for the state and local chapter leads of the American Academy of Pediatrics on policy opportunities to reduce child poverty.
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