2021 started with hope that the Biden-Harris administration would turn the tide on anti-immigrant policies and restore our asylum system. A year later, we find ourselves grappling with the same Trump-era policies of immigration deterrence. Families and asylum-seekers are still turned away at our border without an opportunity to seek protection. More than a million people seeking refuge have been turned away under the pretense that they pose a public health risk that business travelers or tourists don’t. Families are still separated and traumatized by these unlawful policies that deny people their legal and human right to seek legal protection from violence and persecution.

Through it all, the Young Center community banded together to say, “This is not what we want our country to be. We can be better than this.” With your support, in 2021, we served 1,612 children facing deportation across the country. You can read more about our work and read our stories by clicking the button below.