family separation

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.”

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.

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.