Watch 4:32
Inside the government’s frantic scramble to locate migrant parents separated from their children
The Trump administration says it needs more time to meet a federal court deadline to reunite immigrant children who were separated under the president’s “zero tolerance” policy. Lisa Desjardins joins Judy Woodruff to explain the numbers of children who are…
Watch 9:40
This judge hopes outrage over family separation is ‘last gasp’ of current immigration system
Judge Robert Brack of the U.S. District Court of New Mexico says he hopes the moral outrage over the separation of migrant families will be the catalyst to fix the immigration system. Amna Nawaz sits down with Brack to discuss…
Watch 6:58
At the heart of the family separation crisis is an immigration system totally overwhelmed
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.
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…
National outcry over the separation of immigrant families at the U.S. Southern border grows with every new report. Democratic lawmakers have joined protests, and Republicans are increasingly expressing their outrage. On Monday, President Trump again falsely blamed Democrats for his…
The former commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the nation's largest federal law enforcement agency, says it’s not only heartbreaking that migrant children are being torn away from their parents; he’s also worried about how it affects Border Patrol…
Nearly 2,000 children were separated from their families after illegally crossing the border in April and May, according the the Department of Homeland Security. In Southern California, one of the more than hundred facilities that houses unaccompanied migrant children opened…
On a recent morning, the U.S.-Mexico border seemed to blur briefly as hundreds of people lined up for the chance to see their loved ones on the other side. The Hugs Not Walls event, organized by the Border Network for…
More than 650 children were separated from their parents at the U.S. border during a two-week period in May, according to the government’s own figures. On Tuesday, the UN Office for Human Rights condemned the practice and told the U.S.
