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Tag Archives: Separating Children
Key Trump administration officials failed to act on warnings about family separation, watchdog reports
The ORR director at the time confirmed he was informed of the increase of separated children in 2017, and was copied on outreach to US Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- two agencies ...
ProPublica and Bronx Documentary Center Present Talk on Reporting the Realities of Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Policy
. ProPublica went on to look deeper into how children had been affected by the policy, presenting powerful, in-depth accounts of their time in the U.S. immigration system. ...
9 Parents Separated From Families Return to Children in US
“People want to make this a heartwarming story, but it’s not. It’s devastating,” Sewell said. “There is just no good reason why we had to do this to this child and this family. And he symbolizes thousands of others who h ...
Judge Refuses to Second-Guess Family Separations at Border
Days before the judge halted the widespread practice of separating families in 2018, Trump retreated under extraordinary criticism by exempting families from his “zero tolerance” policy to criminally prosecute every adul ...
A New Report on Family Separations Shows the Depths of Trump’s Negligence
Asylum-seeking families from Central America, who have been forced to wait in dangerous Mexican border cities under another policy called the Migration Protection Protocols, are now sending their children to cross the U. ...
It’s how we treat other people’s children that matters
Originally published by The Washington Post Nancy Gibbs is director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and a former editor of Time. It is not an act of particu ...
Editorial: The Trump administration is using any excuse it can find to separate migrant families
The federal government has continued to separate migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border despite a court order that sought to severely curtail the practice. Over the course of a year , 911 more chil ...
Exclusive: On family separations, one arm of the Trump administration raised hundreds of red flags to another
Hundreds of red flags were raised internally within the Trump administration about how families were being separated at the US-Mexico border, including some from months before the controversial "zero tolerance" policy wa ...
How the Stress of Separation and Detention Changes the Lives of Children
The horrific accounts of the conditions under which immigrant children are being held has focussed outrage and attention on the Trump Administration’s actions and agenda. ...