It is not clear how many asylum-seekers are still entering the country, how many are being detained as families, and how many are being released.
Jun 23

President Trump’s executive order on Wednesday halts his policy of family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, but 2,300 children have already been separated from their families since May. Lawyers who are working frantically to track down the children now say…
Jun 23

By Associated Press
Protests and rallies focused around the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border are scheduled this weekend, while more than two dozen congressional Democrats planned to visit detention facilities in Texas.
Jun 23

By Jonathan Lemire, Darlene Superville, Associated Press
Bombarded with criticism condemning the family-separation situation as a national moment of shame, Trump came back firing.
Alumni of the high school that DHS Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen attended have raised over $12,000 for immigrants in need of free and low-cost legal aid.
Jun 23

By Amy Taxin, Associated Press
Immigration authorities on Friday issued a notice that they may seek up to 15,000 beds to detain families.
Jun 22

By David Bauder, Associated Press
A crying Honduran girl depicted in a widely-seen photograph that became a symbol for many of President Donald Trump's immigration policies was not actually separated from her mother, U.S. government officials said on Friday.The photo spread widely as the discussion…
Jun 22

By Will Weissert, Amy Taxin, Colleen Long, Associated Press
Some parents separated from their children struggled to get in touch with youngsters being held in many cases hundreds of miles away, in places like New York and the Chicago area. Some said they didn't even know where their children…
"You hear the other side, you never hear this side," the president said at an event highlighting the plight of Americans whose loved ones were killed by people who entered the country illegally.
Jun 22

By Lisa Mascaro, Zeke Miller, Associated Press
President Donald Trump on Friday told his fellow Republicans in Congress to "stop wasting their time" on immigration legislation until after November, dismissing his party's struggle to surmount internal divisions.
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