"We're going to keep families together but we still have to maintain toughness or our country will be overrun by people, by crime, by all of the things that we don't stand for and that we don't want," Trump said. ...
Daily Archives: June 20, 2018
What You Can Do To Help End Family Separation
The majority of Americans firmly believe that family separation is immoral and unjust. We have the power to end this inhumane policy, and to dismantle the mechanisms that enable it. Ending family separation will require ...
Over 2,300 Children Separated From Parents At U.S.-Mexico Border From May 5 To June 9
Over 2,300 children were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border between May 5 and June 9 under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Tuesday, and i ...
The Trump Administration Is Separating 65 Children a Day From Their Parents
The Trump administration announced on Friday that 1,995 children were separated from their parents between April 19 and May 31, or 47 per children per day. As Vox reports, that included about two weeks when the zero-tole ...
Guatemalan Asylum Seeker Sues Trump Administration Because It Still Won’t Tell Her Where Her Son Is Days After Her Release
Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia is suingthe government for taking her 7-year-old son from her days after they arrived in the U.S. seeking asylum on or around May 19th. Since then she has not seen her son and doesn’t k ...
Tuesday Was Another Day of Massive Protests Around the Country
Tuesday—a day in which it was reported that the Trump administration was using “tender age” shelters; a Guatemalan asylum-seeker sued the Trump administration to find out where her son is; and Trump explained to small-bu ...
We’re Not Better Than This. But We Can Try to Be.
This kind of expert reassurance achieves the opposite result: It signals a bent axis. The normal things feel off. These days, I am not sure how to be—or how to feel—from one minute to the next. Over breakfast on a sunny ...
“A recipe for toxic stress”: an expert on why Trump’s family separation policy is so damaging to kids
Reports like the recording ProPublica obtained of children crying for their parents, or accounts of children in temporary foster care crying themselves to sleep every night, inspire in a lot of people the idea that somet ...
In ICE Detention, a Honduran Woman Fears Deportation Without Her Son
“They didn’t say anything,” Rivera told me. “They just walked over and grabbed Jairo. It felt like my son was stuck to me. He clung to me, cried and screamed. They had to pull him away.” She pleaded with the agents to te ...
Family relationships have long been part of the bedrock of U.S. immigration policy. Then came Trump
“Family separation” is a tactic designed to scare away migrants and asylum seekers, especially those from Latin America. It is also a bargaining chip in the president’s ruthless attempt to force Congress to agree to a ra ...
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