Block ICE's Unauthorized Access to Child Welfare Family Records

Stop the Department of Homeland Security and ICE from accessing the private records of families who came forward to reunite with their children. A child welfare agency shared over 460,000 records with ICE — records that families provided in good faith to be reunited with their kids, not to be targeted by immigration enforcement. That is a profound betrayal of trust, and it needs to end now. These families did exactly what they were asked to do. They cooperated with a system designed to protect children, and that cooperation is now being weaponized against them. No family should have to choose between finding their child and fearing deportation. Pass legislation or use your oversight authority to prohibit the sharing of child welfare records with immigration enforcement agencies, full stop.