Jun 20 2 airlines ask Trump administration not to put migrant children on flights By David Koenig, Associated Press The CEOs of American and United Airlines said that the administration's recent immigration policy of separating migrant families conflicts with their values. Continue reading
Jun 20 A fifth of immigrant children detained under ‘zero tolerance’ policy are younger than 13 By Shefali Luthra, Marisa Taylor, Kaiser Health News The number of children has exploded in the past six weeks since the Trump administration moved to stop parents and their children at the U.S. border and separate and detain them in different facilities. Continue reading
Jun 20 Retired archbishop removed from public ministry after abuse allegation By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press The retired Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., has been removed from public ministry and faces further punishment over a "credible" allegation that he sexually abused a teenager while a priest in New York more than 40 years ago. Continue reading
Jun 20 WATCH: Trump says he’ll be ‘signing something’ on detained children Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has drafted an executive action for President Donald Trump that would direct her department to keep families together after they are detained crossing the border illegally. Continue reading
Jun 20 Methodists, prosecutors scold Sessions over border policy By Deb Reichmann, Associated Press Members of Jeff Sessions' church signed a letter Monday accusing Sessions of child abuse, immorality and racial discrimination. Continue reading
Jun 20 No clear plan yet on how to reunite parents with children By Nomaan Merchant, Colleen Long, Associated Press Trump administration officials say they have no clear plan yet on how to reunite the thousands of children separated from their families at the border. Continue reading
Jun 20 WATCH: House GOP leaders hold news conference amid family separation uproar By Lisa Mascaro, Alan Fram, Associated Press House GOP leaders are holding a news conference at 10 a.m. ET as outrage builds over family separations at the southern border. Watch it live. Continue reading
Jun 20 AMA calls for an end to border separations By Associated Press The largest U.S. doctors' group is urging the Trump administration to end promptly the practice of separating children from their migrating families at the southern border. Continue reading
Jun 19 Toddlers, babies are ‘hysterical, crying and acting out’ without their parents in Texas immigrant shelters By Garance Burke, Martha Mendoza, Associated Press Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis. The government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where… Continue reading
Jun 19 Watch 6:58 At the heart of the family separation crisis is an immigration system totally overwhelmed By PBS News Hour Amid the national storm over his "zero tolerance" immigration and family separation policies, President Trump said on Tuesday that "the only solution to the border crisis" is having the legal authority to detain and deport migrant families as a unit. Continue watching