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
Jun 19 Watch 6:20 Trump administration wants Congress to fix immigration loophole, White House says The outcry over President Trump's policy of separating immigrant families has reached a crescendo that extends beyond party lines. White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp says President Trump hates seeing families separated, but that the Trump administration currently… Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch 6:35 Napolitano: Trump administration taking prosecutors away from serious crimes to handle border misdemeanors The Trump administration has argued that it has no choice but separate migrant children and their parents who enter the U.S. illegally. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says it does have a choice, and that what’s happening is… Continue watching
Jun 19 Migrant mother recounts experience of being separated from her son in detention By Gene Johnson, Manuel Valdes, Associated Press As Blanca Orantes-Lopez sits in a federal prison south of Seattle, her son is in custody at a children's home across the country in upstate New York. She has no idea when she might see him again. Continue reading
Jun 19 5 things we know, 5 things we don’t know about family separation By Lisa Desjardins There is significant concern and confusion over how and why the United States is separating immigrant families at the border. Let us add some clarity. Continue reading
Jun 19 Cruz’s flip-flop on family separation highlights threat to GOP By Will Wessert, Associated Press Ted Cruz has staged a dramatic about-face on the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policies. Continue reading