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.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreThe Trump administration has transferred hundreds of children who entered the U.S. illegally to a temporary tent shelter on the border in Texas that immigrant advocates have condemned as “substandard.”
Read MoreImages 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.
Read MoreOver the past two weeks, hundreds of migrant children have been sent to a tent city in Tornillo, Texas, in what experts are calling a humanitarian crisis of the U.S. government’s own making.
Read MoreA bipartisan group of lawmakers are seeking to prevent the Trump administration from arresting undocumented immigrants who come forward to take care of undocumented immigrant children who are in the country alone, after CNN reported such arrests were happening.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreImmigrant rights groups say some 70 immigrant fathers and some of their children have launched a hunger strike as they languish inside the Karnes County detention center, a for-profit immigration jail under contract with ICE.
Read MoreFederal officials repeatedly indicated there were no long-term plans to continue operation of a temporary “tent city” for unaccompanied migrant children, but an obtained letter showed that the department was making longer-term plans for the shelter before it even opened.
Read MoreThe United States government’s inability to account for thousands of migrant children reflects a broader problem regarding the lack of due process rights in the country’s immigration system.
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