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By deporting 200,000 Salvadorans, Trump may be boosting gang recruitment

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By deporting 200,000 Salvadorans, Trump may be boosting gang recruitment

Micaela Sviatschi, Washington Post (Feb 12, 2018)

Last month, the Trump administration announced plans to revoke temporary protected status for Salvadorans, without attention to the fact that current gangs the result of a previous massive U.S. deportation wave of Salvadoran gang members in the 1990s, meaning that cycle could repeat itself.

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Senators Concerned Over Trump Administration’s Proposal to Separate Immigrant Children from Parents

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Senators Concerned Over Trump Administration’s Proposal to Separate Immigrant Children from Parents

Office of Sen. Kamala D. Harris, Yuba Net (Feb 12, 2018)

U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) led a group of senators on Monday in condemning the Trump Administration’s proposal to systemically separate immigrant children from their parents upon arrival in the United States and asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to reject the measure.

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After Post-Trump Decline, More Central American Children Arriving At U.S. Border

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After Post-Trump Decline, More Central American Children Arriving At U.S. Border

Tim Henderson, Huffingtonpost (Jan 30, 2018)

Despite the sharp decline in the number of Central American children arriving at the border in early 2017, numbers have increased every month since April 2017 . Their continued and intense fear of gang violence outweight concerns of deportation by the Trump administration.

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Separating Families at the Border Will Multiply Child Trauma

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Separating Families at the Border Will Multiply Child Trauma

Wendy Smith, The Chronicle of Social Change (Jan 29, 2018)

In response to the Trump Administration’s proposed policy of separating immigrant children from parents entering the U.S. illegally, as a means of discouraging or deterring immigrant families, the author describes and discusses the trauma that these children will experience. The information provided is bases off of her first-hand experience as psychotherapist.

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While Everybody Slept, Congress did Something Extraordinary for Vulnerable Children

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While Everybody Slept, Congress did Something Extraordinary for Vulnerable Children

Aida Chavez & Ryan Grim, The Intercept (Feb 11, 2018)

Tucked quietly into the most recent congressional measure to keep the government open was the most sweeping and ambitious piece of child welfare legislation passed in at least a decade. It’s an attempt to reshape the entrenched foster care system as a raging opioid epidemic swells the population of children in need.

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