Four members of a Homeland Security advisory council have resigned in protest over the Trump administration’s immigration policies, citing the “morally repugnant” practice of separating immigrant families at the border.
Read MoreA federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting parents and children that it forcibly separated.
Read MoreUnder two court orders, the government is now reuniting migrant children with their mothers. Although the California court that ordered the reunification may permit continued detention of the families until their asylum claims can be decided, something worse than separation or detention awaits those mothers who are deported: rape and death.
Read MoreThis piece provides a glimpse into the daily life of migrant children in detention.
Read MoreThe Trump administration has released more than half of the youngest children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said, but continues to hold the rest as a court deadline to reunite a much larger group of older children approaches.
Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually – a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds.
Read MoreThe nomination of Lynn Johnson, the Trump administration’s choice to lead the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), was approved by the Senate Finance Committee on a party-line vote held before the July 4 holiday.
Read MoreThe Trump administration missed its first court-ordered deadline to reunify families separated at the border as it rushes to confirm the identities of parents and match records of the disparate agencies involved.
Read MoreInternal documents obtained by Slate show that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is not only preparing for a potential surge in the number of child migrants forcibly separated from their parents—the agency plans to pay for the additional cost by siphoning money away from a critical HIV/AIDS treatment program.
Read MoreOn Monday, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee rejected the request for “limited relief” from the Flores agreement, that served as the basis for a 2015 court order preventing the federal detention of migrant children for more than 20 days.
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