ICE Detained Parents Directive: Detention and Removal of Alien Parents or Legal Guardians (August 29, 2017) This directive provides directions governing ICE responsibilities and ICE policies governing steps ICE can be asked to take regarding the following:
— Having ICE transfer detained parents to court to participate in state court proceedings in family or child welfare courts regarding the custody, care, placement or guardianship of the detained parents’ child(ren) primarily for in-person participation of the parent in state court proceedings and in the alternative secondarily for facilitating participation by video conference
— Facilitating visitation between detained parents and their children
— Preventing the transfer or placement of a detained parent in detention facilities outside of the jurisdiction of the courts having jurisdiction over their children
–Assisting detained parents in making plans for care, custody, placement or guardianship of their children
— Facilitating the ability of detained parents to obtain passports, travel documents and other documentation that would be needed and to arrange for travel for their children to join them should the parent be deported.

NOTE this document is the ICE directive that went into effect in August 2017, in March of 2018 ICE issued a fact sheet on this policy and in May 2018 ICE updated its website with instructions related to using this policy.