Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking for two years to identify several thousand migrant children who were stolen from their parents at the Mexican border under Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The Associated Press reported that the Trump administration has set forth their proposed timeline in a new court filing. Trump’s people are…
Reuniting thousands of migrant children separated from their parents or guardians at the U.S.-Mexico border will be impossible say Trump administration immigration officials. According to NBC News: “The Trump administration said in a court filing that reuniting thousands of migrant children separated from their parents or guardians at the U.S.-Mexico border may not be “within the…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is reportedly reallocating more than $260 million in funds this year to house the increased number of detained migrant children. According to a letter from HHS Secretary Alex Azar obtained by Yahoo News, more than $180 million coming from medical-related programs within the department, such as cancer…
The government of El Salvador said that three Salvadoran children, ages 12 to 17, were victims of sex abuse at shelters run by the United States government in Arizona. They have asked U.S. officials to step up their efforts to return the children to their home country as quickly as possible. As news of the…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the U.S. government have finally agreed on a new plan to reunite hundreds of families which had been separated by immigration officials at the U.S.-Mexican border. The families were trying to cross into the United States at the border but without proper documentation the adults were arrested and…
On July 23rd we reported that : “More than 450 immigrant parents who were separated from their children when they entered the United States illegally are no longer in the country though their children remain behind, according to a joint court filing on Monday by the federal government and the American Civil Liberties Union.” Then…
The Trump administration announced Friday that it would now be speeding up the process of reuniting thousands of migrant children that were separated from their parents at the border. They said they would reunite up to 200 children per day by using a new, expedited process. In a court filing, for the first time, the…
The New York Times reported Tuesday that many migrant parents who have been reunited with their young children say the children don’t recognize them when they are brought back together. “Some young children reunited with parents don’t recognize them after being separated for months” Some young children reunited with parents don’t recognize them after being…
President Donald Trump’s zero tolerance immigration policy which resulted in several thousand migrant children being separated from their families has caused an international outcry and a political backlash within the United States. And despite Trump’s executive order reversing the policy of separating migrant families, most of the children have not been reunited with their parents….
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that several thousand children who were separated from their parents at the U.S. border remain in federal custody. Last week a federal judge issued an order to the Trump Administration saying they had just two weeks to reunite the separated families. With that deadline looming…
The Trump administration’s battle against children, asylum seekers , and human decency continued on Tuesday. Administration officials have now told U.S. immigration agents that they must force the parents of separated children to leave the country. Last week a federal judge issued a court order telling the Administration it must take steps to reunite the…
With the deadline fast approaching to reunite separated children with their parents, the federal government won’t say how many separated children they still have in custody, according to a new report from TIME Magazine. Two weeks ago President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending his administration’s policy of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border….
The Trump administration now says that because of a recent court ruling which barred separating migrant children from their families it has the right to detain migrant children with their parents for months or even years as they wait for their immigration cases to be resolved. According to Reuters, “The U.S. government said in a…