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Thousands of families are being separated at the United States border thanks to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s unfathomably cruel “zero tolerance” policy. As a result, thousands of children are being kept in prison-like facilities; employees and volunteers are prohibited from touching them for any reason.

At ProPublica, reporter Ginger Thompson has obtained what might be the most potent illustration of the impact of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” border policy: stomach-churning audio of the sobs and frantic pleading of young children who have been stolen from their parents by the U.S. government. The audio…

On Sunday night, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielson tweeted: “We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.”

Once their children have been taken, Customs and Border Protection gives migrant parents a sterile handout about what to do next. The words “Next steps for families” are printed across the top; the leaflet comes in English and Spanish.  

Five people were killed and several others were injured on Sunday in a high-speed car chase involving Border Patrol and an SUV allegedly carrying undocumented immigrants from Mexico into Texas.

Melania Trump, apparently emboldened by her brief time in hiding, asserted in a statement on Sunday that separating immigrant children from their families at the U.S. border is not a way to Be Best.

An illuminating interview with a migrant justice worker casts some light into the quagmire of migrant detainment at the US-Mexico border, where immigration officials are taking children from their parents under the Trump administration’s new “zero-tolerance” policy. Speaking to Texas Monthly, Anne Chandler–executive…

As the warm and fuzzy Father’s Day video greetings roll in over Twitter, Congressperson Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) is planning a march on Tornillo, Texas, a name which is fast becoming synonymous with barbarity. It’s been widely reported that up to 360 migrant children who have been separated from their families are expected

A day after Jeff Sessions defended the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents by citing a verse from the New Testament, the attorney general spoke about immigration and the Department of Justice’s commitment to “restoring the rule of law in our immigration system” in Scranton,…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to be pleased with the outcome of his “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has resulted in the forcible separation of children—some only a few months old—from their parents, who often do not know where they’ve been taken. The psychological repercussions of these forced…

I try to avoid listening to Donald Trump’s voice, but on a Wednesday in mid-May, I watched the video of a statement he made during a roundtable discussion about California’s sanctuary state policies. His exact words were:

An upsetting, enraging, just galling immigration story was reported from McAllen, Texas on Wednesday.

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Democrats and the nearly two dozen Republicans who attempted to force a vote on a series of bills that would continue Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival protections—and, in the case of at least two of those bills, offer a pathway to citizenship—have failed to get the signatures required to pull it off, meaning that…

On Monday, local news channel Denver7 reported that a woman in Castle Rock, Colorado was charged with a misdemeanor after protesting outside Republican Congressman Ken Buck’s office, an act of dissent which included writing on the sidewalk in chalk.

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Behind Jeff Sessions’s decision to abandon asylum protections for victims of domestic violence is the story of “A.B.” The Salvadoran woman, identified in court documents by her initials, endured more than a decade of physical abuse by her ex-husband, who she says also raped her and repeatedly threatened her life. In…

Racist thumb Jeff Sessions has issued a new, stomach-churning decree: On Monday, he instructed immigration judges to reject asylum applications from victims fleeing domestic violence or gang violence. This will block “tens of thousands of people, especially women, from seeking refuge in America,” the Los Angeles…