WATCH: Nielsen ‘not familiar’ with how toxic stress harms separated families
Mental health experts have warned migrant children who were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border are at risk of developing the condition known as toxic stress.
WATCH: Crisis on southern border is not ‘manufactured,’ Nielsen says
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told a House committee that the U.S. faces "a real, serious, and sustained crisis" at the U.S.-Mexico border.
WATCH: Kirstjen Nielsen testifies on border security, future of border wall
The hearing was rescheduled from February when Nielsen said she was not available to testify.
WATCH: Pentagon says 5,200 troops will be sent to U.S. border
The Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants…
A government watchdog report made public confirms what many media outlets, immigration lawyers and advocates have said for months after the Trump administration rolled out its "zero tolerance" policy earlier this spring: Officials were not prepared.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says officials will not apologize for enforcing immigration laws that result in the separation of children from their parents. Nielsen was speaking Monday at the National Sheriff's Association conference in New Orleans.
Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets…
Trump, who has growing increasingly frustrated by a spike in apprehensions at the border and other legal setbacks, blamed Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday for failing to do enough to stop them, according to people familiar with the…
A "zero-tolerance" policy toward people who enter the United States illegally may cause families to be separated while parents are prosecuted, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday.
