There is seemingly no end to the trauma migrant families are enduring as a result of the Trump administration’s family separation policy: The New Yorker reports that a five-year-old Honduran girl named Helen was separated from her family, detained, and then, before a bond hearing (established by an agreement known as…
The fight for justice for immigrant families in detention has taken another heartbreaking turn: According to the American Civil Liberties Union, migrant parents forcibly separated from their children by the the Trump administration are so scared about conditions in their home countries that, in an effort to help their…
A nursing mother who fled death threats from her brother-in-law in El Salvador is suing the Trump administration to reunite her with her 11-month old daughter, who was still being breastfed when they were forcibly separated.
DAMROSCH PARK, NEW YORK — Dancing tias and teens commandeer the aisles before the performers even enter stage left. Beer, sweat, and laughter permeate the air like the holy trinity of every good fiesta. The message, for once, is not to assimilate, but to celebrate and relish in the Latinx community’s roots. The Selena…
A judge has found that officials at a Texas facility have been giving migrant children in their custody psychotropic medications without permission from their parents or guardians, violating state child welfare laws, reports the Washington Post.
After subjecting migrant families to months of forced separation and reuniting parents and their children only under extreme pressure from the American public and a federal judge’s court order, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now trying to coerce newly reunited families to leave the country, according to new…
ProPublica has released a haunting report detailing the rampant abuse and lack of oversight at government-contracted immigrant youth centers, a situation that one child psychiatrist has called a “gold mine” for predators.
On Thursday, The New York Times reported that Microsoft employees confronted the company’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, with a petition signed by more than 300,000 individuals calling on the software manufacturer to terminate its contract with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and had some things to say about the family separation crisis. During that meeting, according to Representative Joaquin Castro from Texas, she defended herself and the Trump administration,…
Less than a week out from the Trump administration’s court-ordered deadline to reunify all families separated at the border, more than 2,000 migrant children are still being detained and kept away from their families. Even more disturbing, government officials are now saying that potentially hundreds of the remaining…
As the Trump administration is slowly reuniting (some) migrant children with their families, kids and their parents are speaking up about horrific abuses they endured while in detention.
Sometimes it feels like the internet is one massive, horrible reply all thread and Don Jr. is the asshole who keeps responding with lame memes.
Last week, when the Trump administration missed a deadline to reunite all children under the age of 5 that it had forcibly separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border, it claimed that for some of the children, the delay occurred because their parents had serious criminal histories.
The Trump administration has missed its July 10 deadline to reunify all 103 children under the age of 5 that it separated from its parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Trump administration has failed to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunify dozens of migrant children under the age of five with their families, which is no surprise since this entire cruel enterprise has been reckless from the start. And as Politico reports, U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw is losing…
On Tuesday, more than 100 state and local elected officials from 20 states issued a joint statement calling for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Internal documents obtained by Slate show that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is not only preparing for a potential surge in the number of child migrants forcibly separated from their parents—the agency plans to pay for the additional cost by siphoning money away from a critical HIV/AIDS treatment program.
Using the logic of “Look at what you made me do,” Donald Trump is blaming asylum-seeking families for his cruel decision to forcibly separate children from parents, and somehow also managed to blame the parents for his administration’s inability to reunite those families.
Angelica Rebeca Gonzalez-Garcia says she was wished a “Happy Mother’s Day” by one of the immigration agents who took her daughter away on May 11th and sent her, without Gonzalez-Garcia’s knowledge, several states away. CNN has captured their reunion after 55 days; “heartbreaking” has been used a lot over the past 500+…
