‘Bring them back’: Immigrant groups urge Biden to reunite separated families and address trauma at border
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Bring them back’: Immigrant groups urge Biden to reunite separated families and address trauma at border

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Let’s not forget this group of people … Let’s remember there were hundreds of parents deported who have still not seen their children.” Immigration advocacy groups and civil rights organisations have urged the new administration to not just rescind the widely condemned anti-immigration agenda under the Trump administration but also recognise the harm caused by the government, give impacted families protected legal status, and end the government’s adversarial approach to immigration. That right now is the only framework for bringing these parents back: put them before the government, the same government that also took their children away and deported them … Obviously that is untenable.” The Trump administration also withheld names and failed to disclose information that would help find them – additional details for those families were not released until the final weeks of his term, according to ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt. “We need to finally leave the nation’s long history of criminalising immigration and leaving families behind.” President Biden has revoked the ban on US entry from majority-Muslim countries, ordered a freeze on certain deportations and suspended construction of a US-Mexico border wall, among other actions aimed at undoing Trump-era policy. Under the Trump administration, the government gave families “two brutal choices: remain separated from their children or bring their children back to the very danger they fled in the first place”, the ACLU’s Gelernt said.

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President Trump revokes temporary legal status for over 530,000 migrants
6 days, 14 hours ago

President Trump revokes temporary legal status for over 530,000 migrants

Firstpost  

The Trump administration has announced plans to revoke legal protections for 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, making them eligible for deportation within a month. Reuters The Trump administration said on Friday that it will revoke legal protections for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans in the US, paving the way for their mass deportation in about a …

Trump administration ends funding for legal representation of 26,000 migrant children
1 week ago

Trump administration ends funding for legal representation of 26,000 migrant children

LA Times  

Children and adults wait in lines for donated food at a makeshift camp for migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border on May 14, 2021, in Reynosa, Mexico. The Trump administration on Friday ended a federal contract that provides legal representation to nearly 26,000 migrant children who entered the United States without a parent or guardian, a move immigration attorneys say will …

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Specifically Targeting Children Again
2 weeks ago

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Specifically Targeting Children Again

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. This time, immigration officials are threatening to prioritize unaccompanied immigrant children for deportation, while at the same time working to deprive them of access to legal services and representation. Courts have interpreted the mandate that the government provide these …

Immigration crackdown, deportation bid launched
Top News
2 months ago

Immigration crackdown, deportation bid launched

China Daily  

WASHINGTON/PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico — US President Donald Trump on Monday kicked off his sweeping immigration crackdown, tasking the US military with aiding border security, issuing a broad ban on asylum and taking steps to restrict citizenship for children born on US soil. People in the US have grown less welcoming toward immigrants without legal status since Trump's first presidency, but …

'We cannot ignore it': Legal expert explains how citizens can fight 'inhumane' Trump plan
2 months, 3 weeks ago

'We cannot ignore it': Legal expert explains how citizens can fight 'inhumane' Trump plan

Raw Story  

Donald Trump is riding into the White House on a wave of campaign promises, and some of them, if fulfilled, could amount to "child abuse," an ex-prosecutor said. "The resurrection of the inhumane 'zero tolerance' policy that led to family separations during Trump’s first administration is still haunting," the legal expert said ahead of the weekend. "Even if family separation …

Trump 'Border Czar' Suggests Halfway Homes For U.S.-Born Kids With Undocumented Parents
3 months ago

Trump 'Border Czar' Suggests Halfway Homes For U.S.-Born Kids With Undocumented Parents

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” suggested that children who are U.S. citizens but whose parents are undocumented could be placed in a “halfway house” as part of mass deportation efforts. “As far as U.S. children, that’s going to be a difficult situation, because we’re not going to detain U.S. citizen children, which means, you know, they’re …

Trump border chief: US-born children of undocumented immigrants "going to be put in a halfway house"
3 months ago

Trump border chief: US-born children of undocumented immigrants "going to be put in a halfway house"

Salon  

President-elect Donald Trump’s "border czar" Tom Homan delivered alarming new logistical details of a forthcoming mass deportation effort, a day after promising to restart the first Trump administration policy of family separation. In an interview with NewsNation, Homan, tapped by Trump to lead border security policy, admitted that millions of mixed-status households created a “difficult situation” The ​​Center for Migration …

'Calculated cruelty': Report details lasting harms of Trump family separation policy
3 months, 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 …

“We’ll send the whole family”: Trump’s deportation plans echo depression-era "repatriation" schemes
3 months, 2 weeks ago

“We’ll send the whole family”: Trump’s deportation plans echo depression-era "repatriation" schemes

Salon  

President-elect Donald Trump’s recent promise to deport entire families of undocumented immigrants — including those who are American citizens — harkens back to “repatriation” programs of the 1930s, which were used to attempt to pressure Mexican Americans, including Mexican citizens, into leaving the country voluntarily. On NBC’s “Meet the Press” with Kristen Welker on Sunday, Trump reiterated his plans to …

Trump rehires Tom Homan, father of family separation policy, as border czar
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump rehires Tom Homan, father of family separation policy, as border czar

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump has rehired the highly controversial immigration official Tom …

Judge strikes down Biden administration program shielding immigrant spouses from deportation
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Judge strikes down Biden administration program shielding immigrant spouses from deportation

Associated Press  

A federal judge on Thursday struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens. Barker ruled Thursday that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority by implementing the program and had stretched the legal interpretation of relevant immigration law “past its breaking point.” AP AUDIO: …

Trump-nominated judge blocks Biden’s ‘Keeping Families Together’ immigration policy
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump-nominated judge blocks Biden’s ‘Keeping Families Together’ immigration policy

Live Mint  

US Elections 2024: A Donald Trump-nominated judge Thursday struck down Joe Biden's “Keeping Families Together” policy, intended to help undocumented spouses of US citizens obtain legal status. The verdict comes merely days after Donald Trump swept to victory in the US presidential Elections, with cracking down on illegal immigration and launching massive deportations at the top of his list of …

Heartfelt reunions across the U.S.-Mexico border: Families celebrate together despite political backdrop
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Heartfelt reunions across the U.S.-Mexico border: Families celebrate together despite political backdrop

New Indian Express  

Nearly 200 families reunite briefly on the U.S.-Mexico border for heartwarming reunions. The annual event, organized by an immigrant rights advocacy group, took place three days before the U.S. presidential election, despite increased security measures due to the ongoing immigration and border security debates.

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

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

Department of Homeland Security may have lost track of thousands of unaccompanied child migrants
7 months ago

Department of Homeland Security may have lost track of thousands of unaccompanied child migrants

The Independent  

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U.S. President Biden offers massive immigration relief to non-citizens ahead of election
9 months, 1 week ago

U.S. President Biden offers massive immigration relief to non-citizens ahead of election

The Hindu  

President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a massive immigration relief policy to non-citizens offering a path to citizenship to non-citizen spouses and children of American nationals, a move that will protect approximately half a million spouses of US citizens, several thousands of whom are Indian-Americans. “This action will protect approximately half a million spouses of US citizens, and approximately 50,000 …

Biden opens path for 500,000 illegal immigrants married to US citizens to gain citizenship
9 months, 1 week ago

Biden opens path for 500,000 illegal immigrants married to US citizens to gain citizenship

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He said the new path for high-skilled graduates would benefit “people, including ‘dreamers,’ who …

Immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens protected from deportation under Biden’s latest action
9 months, 1 week ago

Immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens protected from deportation under Biden’s latest action

LA Times  

Administration officials say President Biden’s action demonstrates his commitment to securing the border, keeping families together and ensuring the immigration system is fairer. “We celebrate alongside millions whose futures are brighter today, stand with those still awaiting similar protections, and renew our commitment to protecting this progress and fixing every aspect of our failed immigration system — including giving a …

Biden is said to be finalizing plans for migrant limits as part of a US-Mexico border clampdown
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden is said to be finalizing plans for migrant limits as part of a US-Mexico border clampdown

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by American border officials exceeded a new daily threshold, with President Joe Biden expected to sign an executive order as early as Tuesday, according to four people familiar with …

Biden administration will seek partial end to special court oversight of child migrants
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden administration will seek partial end to special court oversight of child migrants

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration will seek to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants traveling alone, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment, an attorney involved in the case says. The Justice Department has told opposing attorneys it will ask a federal judge on Friday to terminate …

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at US border for 8 years
1 year, 3 months ago

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

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A federal judge on Friday …

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at US border for 8 years
1 year, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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 …

Biden administration considers forcing migrant families to remain in Texas
1 year, 6 months ago

Biden administration considers forcing migrant families to remain in Texas

LA Times  

Migrants navigate around concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande after crossing from Mexico into the U.S. on Aug. 1 in Eagle Pass, Texas. The Biden administration is considering forcing some migrant families who enter the country without authorization to remain near the border in Texas while awaiting asylum screening, effectively limiting their ability to travel within the …

Biden administration tells judge that its new asylum rule is not a reboot of Trump’s efforts
1 year, 8 months ago

Biden administration tells judge that its new asylum rule is not a reboot of Trump’s efforts

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration argued Wednesday that its new asylum rule is different from versions put forward under President Donald Trump in a court hearing before a judge who threw out Trump’s attempts to limit asylum on the U.S.-Mexico border. President Joe Biden’s administration instituted its rule on May 11 with the expiration of a COVID-19 restriction known as …

US administration argues against trial in case of Trump-era family separations at border with Mexico
1 year, 9 months ago

US administration argues against trial in case of Trump-era family separations at border with Mexico

The Independent  

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US-born children were among those separated from families under Trump and some are still not reunited
1 year, 11 months ago

US-born children were among those separated from families under Trump and some are still not reunited

The Independent  

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In reversal, Biden weighs detaining migrant families
2 years ago

In reversal, Biden weighs detaining migrant families

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families who cross into the U.S. illegally as it prepares to end COVID-19 restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plans. Last month, the administration said it would generally deny asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S. southern border without first seeking protection in …

Nearly 1,000 migrant families still separated by Trump-era policy
2 years, 1 month ago

Nearly 1,000 migrant families still separated by Trump-era policy

Al Jazeera  

More than 3,800 children were removed from families between 2017 and 2021 as part of a crackdown on border crossings. Years after a widely criticised United States policy known as “family separation” forcibly took refugee and migrant children away from their families at the US southern border, nearly 1,000 have yet to be returned. In February 2021, Biden also created …

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents
2 years, 1 month 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
2 years, 1 month 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 …

Biden administration still can’t find parents in 185 migrant families separated at border under Trump
2 years, 7 months ago

Biden administration still can’t find parents in 185 migrant families separated at border under Trump

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Trump administration’s controversial family separation policy at the US-Mexico …

Inside Biden’s border plans: How optimism turned to chaos
3 years, 4 months ago

Inside Biden’s border plans: How optimism turned to chaos

Associated Press  

McALLEN, Texas — For about four months before President Joe Biden took office, advisers engaged in intense internal debate about how quickly they should undo his predecessor’s hardline border policies. In the summer of 2014, large numbers of unaccompanied children from Central America’s Northern Triangle countries — Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — showed up along the Texas border in …

How Biden's border plans went from hopeful to chaotic
3 years, 4 months ago

How Biden's border plans went from hopeful to chaotic

The Independent  

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US in talks to pay hundreds of millions to families separated at border
3 years, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, …

Biden Administration may pay out more than $1 billion to migrant families separated under Trump
3 years, 5 months ago

Biden Administration may pay out more than $1 billion to migrant families separated under Trump

Salon  

The Biden Administration is reportedly considering a program that would compensate migrant families who were separated at the southern U.S. border by the Trump Administration — a move that comes as federal agencies work through a backlog of lawsuits filed by parents whose children were forcibly removed from their custody and allegedly suffered lasting trauma as a result of the …

US steps up effort to unite families separated under Trump
3 years, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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 border: Rising Covid concerns could slow plans to scrap Trump-era policy
3 years, 8 months ago

US border: Rising Covid concerns could slow plans to scrap Trump-era policy

CNN  

Washington CNN — The Biden administration may delay winding down a Trump-era border policy tied to the pandemic due to increasing concerns about Covid-19 variants, according to a source familiar with the matter. The administration – under fire from both conservatives and liberals on immigration – had been considering ending the public health order that’s allowed for the swift expulsion …

Trump tells rally crowd that Biden immigration policies have children ‘on suicide watch’
3 years, 9 months ago

Trump tells rally crowd that Biden immigration policies have children ‘on suicide watch’

The Independent  

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US identifies 3,900 children separated at border under Trump
3 years, 9 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, 9 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, 10 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 …

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