At the McAllen Border Patrol processing center, officers accused a man of not being the father because his last name was not on the boy’s birth certificate. He said U.S. Customs and Border Protection told him he’d get his son back if he said he wasn’t the father. Confused, he agreed.
Read MoreFollowing the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump administration to go forward with its toughest asylum policy to date, officials from the Department of Justice and Homeland Security on Friday detailed how they would begin enforcement, including by turning back children who arrive at the southern border without their parents.
Read MoreAttorneys on Friday struck back against a claim long made by the U.S. government that a landmark 1997 court settlement about the care of migrant children in custody has caused kids and families to flow north from Central America.
Read MoreThough immigrants come from a variety of backgrounds, there are certain stressors that U.S.-born children of immigrants have in common.
Read MoreA federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to allow a small group of migrant parents it separated from their children and then deported to return to the U.S. The judge found that some of the migrants were probably coerced into authorizing their deportation and were given inaccurate or misleading information by immigration authorities.
Read MoreA report released Wednesday includes accounts of facility staff detailing the inconsolable crying of children when they were separated, the kids’ confusion, and their belief that they had been abandoned by their parents.
Read MoreSeparated children experienced heightened levels of anxiety, fear, and PTSD compared with children who were not taken from their parents, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General said.
Read MoreIn a partial reversal, the Trump administration announced Monday it would resume the practice of considering whether to defer the deportations of certain people living in the U.S. illegally, on a temporary, case-by-case basis, after it abruptly suspended the process for non-military requesters earlier this month.
Read MoreDetaining children indefinitely, particularly in a place where their basic needs are not met, can cause long-term damage, according to decades of research on early child development.
Read MoreThe Department of Homeland Security is expected to issue a sweeping new set of regulations for detaining migrant children which will replace more than two decades of protections that were put into place.
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