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Oct 11
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Trump Split Up Many More Migrant Families Than Previously Thought, New Report Finds

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Trump Split Up Many More Migrant Families Than Previously Thought, New Report Finds

Bryan Schatz, New York Times (October 11, 2018)

A new report by Amnesty International finds that the Trump administration has separated far more immigrant families than it has publicly admitted. Amnesty reports that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) forcibly separated more than 6,000 family units between mid-April and mid-August under the White House’s “zero tolerance” policy. That number, it says, “excluded countless other families whose separations were not recorded.”

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Oct 08
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Migrant Children in Search of Justice: A 2-Year-Old’s Day in Immigration Court

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Migrant Children in Search of Justice: A 2-Year-Old’s Day in Immigration Court

Vivian Yee and Miriam Jordan, The New York Times (October 8, 2018)

There has been a new wave of children in the immigration courts across America. Though the exact figures are not known, lawyers who work with immigrants said the large number of migrant children now being held in detention has given rise to a highly unusual situation: more and more young children coming to court.

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Oct 05
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These immigrants say they’ve been jammed into overcrowded cells, sleeping next to toilets at federal center

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These immigrants say they’ve been jammed into overcrowded cells, sleeping next to toilets at federal center

Alfredo Corchado & Dianne Solis, Dallas News (October 5, 2018)

A renewed surge in Central American family migration is overwhelming private shelters and U.S. immigration holding centers here, raising new questions about the Trump administration’s deterrence policies.

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Oct 04
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Family Separation Causes Serious Health Problems For Children

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Family Separation Causes Serious Health Problems For Children

Forbes (October 4, 2018)

When children become separated from their families, the parent-child bond is disrupted. The disruption in the parent-child bond, as understood through Bowlby and Ainsworth’s attachment theory, can harm children’s psychological health. Children can become less flexible, open, and adaptable to the world around them.

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Oct 03
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The U.S. Detention of Children Is Only Getting Worse

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The U.S. Detention of Children Is Only Getting Worse

Michael Garcia Bochenek, Human Rights Watch (October 3, 2018)

Images of children sitting alone in chain-link cages, recordings of their frightened cries, and officials’ mocking reactions generated outrage across the country this summer. The Trump Administration responded by reversing its policy of forcibly separating immigrant families at the border—but what it substituted has been no better: it merely changed the way children are harmed.

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Sep 30
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Migrant Children Moved Under Cover of Darkness to a Texas Tent City

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Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times (September 30, 2018)

In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.

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