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US Pulls Out of Settlement Talks in Family Separation Suits
The American Civil Liberties Union says the Department of Justice has withdrawn from talks to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who were separated under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border enforcement policy.
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Trump's Border Separations Left Children, Parents With Severe Trauma, Study Finds
Children and parents separated at the border under the Trump administration experienced severe psychological trauma that some are dealing with long after being reunited, the first qualitative study of children and parents has found. The study by Physicians for Human Rights published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS ONE concluded that the separation of 31 parents and children whose cases the group reviewed “constitutes cruel,...
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Biden: Families of Separated Children Deserve Compensation
President Joe Biden says families of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration should be compensated.
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US Steps Up Effort to Unite Families Separated Under Trump
The Biden administration is stepping up its effort to find and unite migrant families forcibly separated under President Donald Trump
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US Identifies 3,900 Children Separated at Border Under Trump
The Biden administration says it has identified more than 3,900 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy on illegal crossings.
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DHS Secretary Mayorkas Talks Family Reunification Strategy
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas discussed the new administration’s priorities in Monday’s White House press briefing. “To put it succinctly, the prior administration dismantled our nation’s immigration system in its entirety.” Specifically, he spoke to joint efforts to tackle family reunification, an initiative led by former Women’s Refugee Commission staffer Michelle Brané. “This is an all-of-society effort to...
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Lawyers Have Found the Parents of 105 Separated Migrant Children in Past Month
The lawyers working to reunite immigrant parents and children separated by the Trump administration reported on Wednesday that they have found the parents of 105 children in the past month, NBC News reports.
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Watchdog: DOJ Officials Were Driving Force Behind Family Separation
After a scathing new report from the Justice Department’s watchdog blamed top department officials for being the “driving force” behind the Trump administration’s 2018 migrant family separation policy, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein issued a statement of regret and current DOJ official Gene Hamilton blamed the president for the policy.
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The Parents of 666 Migrant Children Separated at the Border Are Still Missing: An ACLU Lawyer Describes the Lasting Trauma
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, more than two-thirds of the 1,000-plus parents separated from their migrant children have yet to be found. Lee Gelernt, the ACLU lawyer leading the court challenge to the Trump Administration’s family separation policy, explains why it has been so difficult to reunite these families and how the separations have caused lasting damage.
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What a New Report Reveals About Deliberate Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Under Trump
A new draft report by the Justice Department inspector general reveals that top officials in the Trump administration were a driving force behind the separation of thousands of migrant families at the U.S. border with Mexico. The CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, breaks down what this new report tells us about the motives behind this...
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Justice Officials Drove Family Separation Policy, Draft Watchdog Report Says
Top former Justice Department officials, including U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Rod Rosenstein, helped drive a Trump administration policy that resulted in the separation of children from their parents, a draft inspector general report shows.
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Judge Rules Previous Order to Release Kids From ICE Custody by Monday Now ‘Unenforceable'
A federal judge in California ruled over the weekend that her previous order to release migrant children from ICE custody by Monday is now “unenforceable.”
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Judge Delays Deadline to Free Detained Migrant Children
A federal judge has extended the deadline for the release of migrant children from detention, as advocates for detained families feared the government would create what they called a new form of family separation.
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Immigrant Parents Denied Adequate Medical Care, Should Be Released With Their Children, Lawyers Say
Lawyers representing immigrant families in detention filed a complaint to the Department of Homeland Security on Sunday alleging that ICE has failed to provide adequate medical care to their clients, NBC News reports.