The Trump administration’s deportation campaign in Chicago has caused heightened anxiety and panic attacks in immigrant communities, with families reporting immediate and lasting physical and emotional impacts on children whose parents were detained, even after reunification.
Over 300 federal judges have rejected the Trump administration’s six-month effort to expand mandatory detention of nearly all immigrants in deportation proceedings, ordering release or bond hearings in more than 1,600 cases they deemed illegal or unconstitutional.
The Trump administration has indefinitely halted immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries in one of its most sweeping restrictions on legal immigration to the United States.
A Boston federal judge gave the Trump administration three weeks to correct its “mistake” in deporting a college student to Honduras while she traveled home for Thanksgiving, recommending the government issue her a student visa.
Migrant families have alleged in court documents that children in ICE custody faced contaminated food, limited clean water, and inadequate medical care.
This analysis reviews the Trump administration’s immigrant child detention practices following the detention of a 5-year-old Minnesotan boy.
Dozens of immigrant families protested outside a Texas detention facility Saturday after a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent there following their detention in Minnesota.
TIME spoke with a former ICE official and legal expert to explain what happens to immigrant children after ICE detention, shedding light on the policies behind deportation operations in Minneapolis and nationwide.
A 5-year-old boy was taken into custody by ICE alongside his father in the Minneapolis area, despite having an active immigration court case.
ICE has placed more immigrant children in federal shelters this year than the previous four years combined, with kids now spending an average of six months in custody under Trump compared to one month under Biden.
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