Aug 21 WATCH: Trump administration proposes longer detention of migrant families The Department of Homeland Security is moving to end a long-standing federal court agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention. Continue reading
Aug 19 U.S. sued over Honduran man’s suicide after he was separated from his family By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press The lawsuit alleges Marco Antonio Muñoz "yelled and screamed in desperation" as he was "dragged" away from his wife and child inside the Border Patrol's processing center in McAllen, Texas. Continue reading
Jul 30 ACLU: Over 900 children were separated from their families after court order to stop By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press The group said 911 children had been separated from their families from June 28, 2018, to June 29 of this year. Continue reading
Feb 26 House Dems to subpoena Trump administration for family separation documents By Colleen Long, Associated Press A House committee voted Tuesday to subpoena Trump administration officials over family separations at the southern border, the first issued in the new Congress as Democrats have promised to hold the administration aggressively to count. Continue reading
Feb 21 Advocates say U.S. still separates migrant families needlessly By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press Months after the Trump administration announced an end to its widescale separation of migrant parents and children, the policy remains a heated issue in the courts and at the border as critics contend the government is still needlessly breaking up… Continue reading
Feb 03 US sees limitations on reuniting migrant families By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press The Trump administration says it would require extraordinary effort to reunite what may be thousands of migrant children who have been separated from their parents and, even if it could, the children would likely be emotionally harmed. Continue reading
Jan 18 Why we may never know the true number of family separations By Joshua Barajas A watchdog's 24-page report said the exact number of children separated from their families by immigration authorities is “unknown.”… Continue reading
Nov 16 Judge approves settlement giving some migrant parents second chance at asylum By Joshua Barajas The agreement focuses on a group of migrant parents who were interviewed about their asylum claims after being separated from their children, and subsequently had their claims denied. Continue reading
Jul 14 Judge commends family reunification, eyes next deadline By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said the government has largely complied with a deadline to reunite families with children under 5. Continue reading
Jul 02 Read: HHS just stopped telling us how many kids have been separated By Lisa Desjardins This week, when the NewsHour asked about the current number of separated children, as well their ages, two different staff members received an identical HHS response which did not contain any of those numbers. Continue reading