immigration

More than 140 arrested at meatpacking plant in another Ohio immigration raid

By John Seewer, Associated Press

The investigation focused on whether the company knowingly hired people who are in the country illegally and used fake identities belonging to U.S. citizens.

Read Trump’s full executive order on family separation

By Erica R. Hendry

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that will stop the practice of separating children and parents detained at the U.S.-Mexico border while trying to enter the country illegally. Read it here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

McCain, Coons urge Trump to withdraw State Department nominee over stance on immigrants

By Josh Lederman, Associated Press

Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons called on President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday to withdraw its nominee for a key State Department position over his "lack of empathy" for immigrants.

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.