Care Over Cruelty: Advancing Humane Immigration Policies for Families and Communities

This webinar will examine how current ICE enforcement methods under the 2026 Trump administration—including detention, fast-track deportation, enforcement in schools, hospitals, courthouses, and places of worship, and restrictions on asylum and work authorization—are affecting refugee and immigrant families and communities across the United States. Using a mental health lens and a policy-oriented solutions approach, the discussion will explore how these practices fuel trauma, fear, family instability, and barriers to care, while highlighting humane, rights-based alternatives that protect dignity, wellbeing, and community safety.