More than 5,400 children have been detained and separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration since 2017. Many families remain separated, and the violence of this policy has been comp ...
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Family separation returns under cover of the coronavirus
“My wish is to be with my children there in America one day,” she said. “But if it is my turn to return, I have already lived my life. They are just beginning to live.” ...
FIRST THE MUSLIM BAN, NOW CORONAVIRUS — IRANIAN FAMILIES SEPARATED BY ONE TRUMP ORDER AFTER ANOTHER
“She’s not studying, she’s basically wasting her life,” said Nasseri of his daughter. He has had three surgeries that have decreased his lung function, and he has high blood pressure. “If I catch coronavirus, there’s a b ...
A Mexican Man’s Fatal Journey to Reclaim His American Life
Belinda Luna, the librarian in this outpost in Idaho farm country, still shakes when she remembers a visit one day a little more than a year ago to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Idaho Falls. An immigr ...
DHS secretary defends separating families at the border
But Nielsen also agreed with senators that more must be done to protect the children who either come to the US without their parents or are separated from them. ...
Why Does Trump Treat Immigrant Kids Cruelly? Because He Can
Today President Trump is again slamming the door on desperate refugees. Indeed, the Trump administration is going a step further by wrenching children from the arms of asylum-seekers, apparently as a way of inflicting gr ...
Hundreds of Immigrant Children Have Been Taken From Parents at U.S. Border
She had hoped she and her son would find refuge together. Instead, the agents ordered her to place her son in the back seat of a government vehicle, she said later in a sworn declaration to a federal court. They both cri ...