Facing an extraordinary backlash not just from Democrats but from some Republicans, every living former first lady (and, amazingly, the current one), United Nations human rights officials, Willie Nelson, Pope Francis and ...
Daily Archives: June 21, 2018
‘These children needed their mothers’: Detained kids may face life of trauma, doctors say
Kraft, a pediatrician and president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, blasted the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has separated more than 2,000 children from their mothers and fathe ...
These immigrant children risked everything to seek asylum in America
The strange music of a freight train, the metal-on-metal drone of wheel on rail, the groans and clanks as box cars shift and settle and are propelled onward, the occasional horn as it nears a crossing—these are familiar ...
US communities can suffer long-term consequences after immigration raids
U.S. immigration agents raided an Ohio gardening company on June 5, arresting 114 suspected undocumented workers. ...
Report: Nearly Half of Funding for Child Migrant Care Went to Shelters With Histories of Abuse
Among the accusations are several startling charges in a lawsuit against one operator of drugging migrant children with heavy antipsychotic medications that made them lethargic, physically incapacitated, and afraid. ...
Family Members of Detainees Are Reviewing Border Detention Centers on Facebook
Horrific stories continue to emerge as a result of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which calls for both the prosecution of all people who attempt to illegally enter the country and in many ...
The Damage Is Done
President Trump created the child-separation crisis when he imposed a “zero tolerance” policy for border crossings. Where the Obama administration detained families ahead of civil proceedings conducted in immigration cou ...
He Was Told He Couldn’t Let Migrant Kids Comfort Each Other—So He Quit
Antar Davidson quit a government-contracted shelter for immigrant kids when superiors ordered him to tell young siblings that they were not allowed to hug. ...
Ex-CIA Contractor Makes Millions Flying Immigrant Kids to Shelters
The Trump administration has been paying an intelligence contractor millions of dollars to to fly immigrant children to shelters across the United States. ...
How Will Detained Children Find Their Parents?
On Wednesday, amid mounting pressure to end the policy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that he said would keep families together, but it’s unclear what will become of the thousands of young people the ...
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