The part of that small child still inside me wants to bear witness. Despite changes in White House policy, there are thousands of children separated from their immigrant parents — some under a year old at so-called tende ...
Daily Archives: June 22, 2018
What family separation looks like: Guatemalan man is deported, while his 6-year-old daughter remains behind in New York City
U.S. Border Patrol agents, he said, took his weeping daughter from his arms and told him that she would be returned to him within days. ...
Immigrant children can be detained, prosecuted, and deported once they turn 18
The United States government’s system for undocumented migrant children picked up at the border is designed to handle them until they turn 18. But once they do, they’re out on their own — and, potentially, back into the ...
Trump doesn’t need to put families in detention centers to enforce his immigration policy. There are better options.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration will no longer separate families at the border as part of his “zero tolerance” policy of criminally prosecuting all border crossers (though the status of ...
From slavery to “Indian schools” to internment camps, family separation is nothing new in America
Donald Trump gave a speech this week at the National Federation of Independent Business, and right after that he hugged the flag “We’re doing well as a country, and you are the ones truly who are making America great aga ...
“What the Hell Is President Trump Doing?”
On Thursday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen pushed through an amendment to an appropriations measure that would force the State Department to reveal travel ban numbers it has previously kept secret. ...
Trump’s Immigration Policies Unified People of Many Faiths in a Powerful Protest on Capitol Hill Today
The president may have signed an executive order intended to end family separation at the border, but immigrant advocates aren’t quieting down. On Thursday morning, dozens of faith leaders, children, and protesters gathe ...
Trump Is Trying to Find a Legal Way to Lock Up Even More Immigrant Families
There’s still widespread uncertainty about how exactly the executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday will change his policy of separating and detaining immigrant families. But one thing is clear: If t ...
Exclusive: Airline Flies Snowbirds to Mexico, Deports Immigrants for ICE
”Think beyond a flight. Charter an experience,” Xtra Airways, a Coral Gables, Florida-based charter airline beckons on its sharp red, white, and blue homepage. ...
5-Year Old in Family Detention Camp Tells Mom: This Is Hell
The asylum-seeking mothers with their young children don’t sleep well at the Berks family detention center in Leesport, Pennsylvania. That’s because multiple times per night guards shine flashlights into detainees’ rooms ...
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