immigration

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.

WATCH: Trump says he wants 'third option' on immigration

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump says he's requesting a "third option" from Congress that will allow officials to detain children and parents together as a family unit.

Mexico condemns family separations at border

By Associated Press

Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray says at a news conference today that Mexico does not promote illegal migration, but it "cannot remain indifferent in the face of something that clearly represents a violation of human rights."…

Children cry and plead for their parents at the border in audio released by ProPublica

By Ginger Thompson, ProPublica

ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.”…

How the toxic stress of family separation can harm a child

By Laura Santhanam

While it’s not clear how the political fight about the practice will play out, researchers do know how a traumatic event like being separated from a parent affects a child.

Remember the humanity of immigrants, this poet urges

By Jennifer Hijazi

Eduardo Corral's poems are an imagined glimpse into the internal lives of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border -- something he said has been forgotten or intentionally omitted in the national conversation.