The proposal would give detained immigrant families two options: remain detained together while their case works its way through the system, or allow children to be released from custody after 20 days while their parents ...
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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CARRIED OUT THOUSANDS MORE FAMILY SEPARATIONS THAN PREVIOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGED
MORE THAN A year after the Trump administration quietly began a program of separating migrant children from their families along the U.S.-Mexico border, the full number of people impacted remains unclear. According to a ...
Trump administration considers asking parents to make dire border choice: detention or separation
One option under consideration is for the government to detain asylum-seeking families together for up to 20 days, then give parents a choice: stay in family detention with your child for months or years as your immigrat ...
The Awful Things I Saw and Heard at the Border
As the nation turns its attention from the Supreme Court nomination battle to the midterm elections, national media coverage is dominated by political theater in the fight for control of Congress. In the meantime, a whol ...
“In Any Other Judicial System, the Government Cannot Just Take Away Your Kid”
On April 20, Alejandra and her two-year-old daughter were taken into a small room at the Karnes family detention center in South Texas. Officials working at the center said they had good news and bad news. Alejandra, a 2 ...
ICE put a 4-year-old on a plane to Guatemala. Her dad found out 30 minutes before she landed
But there was one major problem, according to advocates who worked on the case: The man didn't learn his daughter was coming until 30 minutes before her flight was set to land in Guatemala City. ...
The care of immigrant children in U.S. detention
The Oct. 2 editorial “The ongoing misery of separated children” criticized the Department of Health and Human Services for providing care to unaccompanied alien children after they illegally crossed our border. Our offic ...
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It had been 10 weeks since Ramos had last held her 2-year-old, Alexa. Ten weeks since she was arrested crossing the border into Texas and U.S. immigration authorities seized her daughter and told her she would never see ...
Government Report Details Trump Administration’s Incompetent Implementation of Family Separation Policy
The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has concluded that the agency was not fully prepared to implement the zero-tolerance policy that separated more than 2,000 immigrant families this summer. The repor ...
Homeland Security’s Computers Couldn’t Track Separated Families, Report Finds
Agency officials also gave inconsistent information to migrant parents arriving at the border, so some did not understand that they would be separated from their children, according to the report by the department’s Offi ...