Category: Family Separation
Judge orders release of children held by ICE
Advocates are calling on the agency to also immediately release parents. by Eoin Higgins, staff writer Saturday, June 27 A federal judge ruled Friday evening that immigrant children held in ICE detention must be released by…
The Trump Administration is rushing deportations of migrant children during coronavirus
Their father was missing. Their mother was miles away. Two sisters, ages 8 and 11, were survivors of sexual assault and at risk of deportation. With the nation focused on COVID-19, the U.S. government is rushing…
Families are standing by to take in migrant kids, but the government won’t let them out
By Aura Bogado / May 14, 2020 While the surrounding world has been transformed by the coronavirus, relatively little has changed inside the government-sponsored shelter for migrant children in Fairfield, California. Staffers at the facility,…
Scathing new government report on Trump family separation policy
“This report shows that high-level officials chose to ignore the warnings about the harms of family separation. It also raises serious questions about whether the lack of interagency communication has still not been fixed. Thousands of…
