Families Still Feel Fallout of Trump's Immigration Policy, Fear His Return to Office
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Families Still Feel Fallout of Trump's Immigration Policy, Fear His Return to Office

Associated Press  

The fallout of Trump's zero tolerance immigration policy continues to impact migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Sixteen-year-old Billy, one of thousands of children separated from their parents, wants people to remember what happened and to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again.

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'Calculated cruelty': Report details lasting harms of Trump family separation policy
1 week ago

'Calculated cruelty': Report details lasting harms of Trump family separation policy

Raw Story  

A report published Monday by a coalition of human rights groups estimates that as many as 1,360 children who were separated from their parents under the first Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy have yet to be reunited, causing immense suffering for families ensnared in the punitive effort to deter border crossings. "Forcible separation of children from their families inflicted harms …

How America Forgot About One of Trump’s Most Brutal Policies
1 month, 3 weeks ago

How America Forgot About One of Trump’s Most Brutal Policies

Politico  

How did we get here? That failure could ultimately make it easier for a second Trump administration to implement a more draconian immigration crackdown, perhaps including something akin to another family separation policy. It has become commonplace to describe our immigration system as broken — as a legislative and bureaucratic morass — but Trump’s family separation policy was not business …

Migrant families separated under Trump still feel the fallout and fear his return to office
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Migrant families separated under Trump still feel the fallout and fear his return to office

LA Times  

Billy, with his father at a recent Democratic rally in Doral, Fla., speaks about being separated from his dad after the two crossed the border when Billy was 9. Sixteen-year-old Billy’s friends at his rural high school in the South don’t know he was one of thousands of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under then-President Trump’s …

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at US border for 8 years
1 year ago

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at US border for 8 years

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn’t ruled out if voters return him to the White House next year. The separation of thousands of families “represents one of the most …

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at U.S. border for 8 years
1 year ago

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at U.S. border for 8 years

LA Times  

A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn’t ruled out if voters return him to the White House next year. The separation of thousands of families “represents one of the most shameful chapters in …

Biden administration settles lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separation policy
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden administration settles lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separation policy

Raw Story  

Oct. 16, 2023 "Biden administration settles lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separation policy" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. The federal government will be prohibited from implementing a Trump administration immigration policy that separated children from parents …

Settlement over Trump family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years
1 year, 2 months ago

Settlement over Trump family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The federal government would be barred from immigration policies that separate parents from children for eight years under a proposed court settlement announced Monday that also provides families that were split under the Trump administration with temporary legal status and short-term housing aid. The settlement between the Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union, if approved …

Biden agrees to settle ACLU lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separations
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden agrees to settle ACLU lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separations

LA Times  

People who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border are held at a border patrol processing center located below the Eagle Pass International Bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas. Government policies that cause widespread separation of migrant children from their parents would be banned under a proposed legal settlement filed Monday by the Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union. “The Department of …

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents
1 year, 10 months ago

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents

India Today  

Nearly 1,000 migrant children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by the administration of former President Donald Trump have yet to be reunited with their parents despite a two-year effort by President Joe Biden. Biden, a Democrat, issued an executive order shortly after taking office in January 2021 that established a task force to reunite children separated from their families under …

US reunites nearly 700 kids taken from parents under Trump
1 year, 10 months ago

US reunites nearly 700 kids taken from parents under Trump

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A Biden administration task force designed to reunite children separated from their families during President Trump’s presidency has reconnected nearly 700 children with their families, officials said Thursday. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were split up under the Trump administration’s widely condemned practice of forcibly separating …

Opinion: Families torn apart by Trump administration deserve payouts
3 years, 1 month ago

Opinion: Families torn apart by Trump administration deserve payouts

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Raul A. Reyes is an attorney and a member of the USA Today board of contributors. CNN — Right now, federal agencies are negotiating a possible settlement with migrant families that could provide compensation for separating children from their parents in 2018 under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy. On Fox News, former Vice President Mike Pence blasted such …

US in talks to pay hundreds of millions to families separated at border
3 years, 1 month ago

US in talks to pay hundreds of millions to families separated at border

Live Mint  

The Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma. The number of families eligible under …

US in talks to compensate families separated at border
3 years, 1 month ago

US in talks to compensate families separated at border

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Justice Department is in talks to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to each child and parent who was separated under a Trump-era practice of splitting families at the border, a person familiar with discussions to settle lawsuits said Thursday. About 5,500 children were split from their parents under President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy, …

US steps up effort to unite families separated under Trump
3 years, 3 months ago

US steps up effort to unite families separated under Trump

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is expanding its effort to find and reunite migrant families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under President Donald Trump as part of a zero-tolerance policy on illegal crossings. “We recognize that we can’t make these families completely whole again,” said Michelle Brané, executive director of the administration’s Family Reunification Task Force. “But we …

US widens effort to unite migrant families separated under Trump
3 years, 3 months ago

US widens effort to unite migrant families separated under Trump

Al Jazeera  

The Biden administration has launched a new programme that it says will expand efforts to find and reunite migrant families who were separated at the US-Mexico border under President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy on irregular crossings. A US federal task force said on Monday that the programme would help find many parents who are in remote Central American communities but …

Families separated at Mexico border ask for residency, aid
3 years, 4 months ago

Families separated at Mexico border ask for residency, aid

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Several parents who were separated from their children on the U.S.-Mexico border during former President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Homeland Security Secretary for permanent legal residency in the United States and compensation, said the mother of two of the children. Keldy Mabel Gonzales Brebe, who was separated from two sons in the fall of …

US identifies 3,900 children separated at border under Trump
3 years, 6 months ago

US identifies 3,900 children separated at border under Trump

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration said Tuesday that it has identified more than 3,900 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy on illegal crossings, providing one of the more detailed accounts of a chapter in U.S. immigration history that drew widespread condemnation. The Biden administration’s Family Reunification Task Force count …

US: 2,100 migrant children may still be separated from parents
3 years, 6 months ago

US: 2,100 migrant children may still be separated from parents

Al Jazeera  

A Biden administration task force charged with reuniting families separated under Donald Trump, has so far united 7 children. An effort by US President Joe Biden to reunite migrant families separated by the previous administration has so far reunited seven children with their parents, according to a US Department of Homeland Security report. Biden issued an executive order shortly after …

Trump administration forced deported parents to leave their kids behind, watchdog says
3 years, 7 months ago

Trump administration forced deported parents to leave their kids behind, watchdog says

LA Times  

In this March 24 photo, a migrant man, center, holds a child as he looks at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent at an intake area after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Roma, Texas. A government watchdog says the Trump administration, under its practice of separating families at the border, forced migrant parents to leave the U.S. without their …

US begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border
3 years, 7 months ago

US begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration said Monday that four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump’s presidency will be reunited in the United States this week in what Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calls “just the beginning” of a broader effort. He described them as children who were 3 years old at the time and …

U.S. to start reuniting some families separated at Mexico border
3 years, 7 months ago

U.S. to start reuniting some families separated at Mexico border

LA Times  

The Biden administration is touting the U.S. reunion this week of four families split apart by the Trump administration’s separation policy, framing it as a key moment in a broader, more humanitarian approach to immigration, in contrast with the “cruelty” of the president’s predecessor. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said a task force established by a February …

Biden team seeks to let separated migrant families stay in US
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden team seeks to let separated migrant families stay in US

Al Jazeera  

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said establishing a more humane policy at the US southern border is going to take time. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas blasted the previous administration under President Donald Trump which separated more than 5,400 children from their parents under Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy. “And if, in fact, they seek to reunite here in the United States, we …

Immigrant advocates urge Biden to quickly rectify the trauma of family separation
4 years ago

Immigrant advocates urge Biden to quickly rectify the trauma of family separation

CNN  

CNN — Immigrant advocacy groups, who for years scrambled to identify and reunite families separated at the US-Mexico border, are now preparing for the incoming administration and steps to rectify the trauma experienced by parents and children. Last week, immigrant advocacy groups met with the Joe Biden transition team on family separation and next steps as part of a series …

Search persists for parents of 628 kids separated at US border
4 years ago

Search persists for parents of 628 kids separated at US border

Al Jazeera  

Parents of 333 children are believed to be in the US, while parents of the other 295 are believed to reside abroad. A court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the United States-Mexico border early in the Trump administration, according to a court filing on Wednesday that also said the government last week provided …

Trump Says Migrant Children Separated From Their Parents Are ‘Well Taken Care Of’
4 years, 2 months ago

Trump Says Migrant Children Separated From Their Parents Are ‘Well Taken Care Of’

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Donald Trump’s administration started and carried out a policy that took more than 4,000 children from their parents, at least 545 of whom are still split apart years later. “They are so well taken care of,” Trump said of the children taken from their parents by his administration. It’s criminal.” President Donald Trump has tried to …

Judge Urges US To Help Find Parents Deported Without Kids
4 years, 2 months ago

Judge Urges US To Help Find Parents Deported Without Kids

News 18  

A federal judge on Thursday urged the Trump administration to do more to help court-appointed researchers find hundreds of parents who were separated from their children after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border beginning in 2017. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw refrained from issuing an order during a hearing in San Diego and instead asked Justice Department attorneys to explore ways …

Parents Of 545 Children Separated At U.S.-Mexico Border Still Can't Be Found
4 years, 2 months ago

Parents Of 545 Children Separated At U.S.-Mexico Border Still Can't Be Found

NPR  

Parents Of 545 Children Separated At U.S.-Mexico Border Still Can't Be Found Enlarge this image toggle caption Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP Despite a federal judge's order that the government reunite families who had been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration's "no tolerance" migration policy, the parents of 545 children still can't be found, according to a court document …

Parents of 545 children separated at US border still not found
4 years, 2 months ago

Parents of 545 children separated at US border still not found

Al Jazeera  

Rights groups have been searching for parents by going door to door in Mexico and Central America. Despite a federal judge’s order that the government reunite families who had been separated at the United States-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “no tolerance” migration policy, the parents of 545 children still have not been found. According to a court document filed …

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