BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the Utah Senate debate Tuesday [10-9-18] night, GOP candidate Mitt Romney called family separations at the border ‘a dark chapter in American history,’ and said that “this is inexcusable, and can’t go on’…Romney faces off in November against Democratic opponent Jenny Wilson, a member of the Salt Lake County Commission. In […]
Category: Children
10/2/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year was plagued by a lack of preparation, resource shortfalls and communication failures, according to a government audit released on Tuesday [10-2-18]. The review, conducted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General, is the first official audit of […]
9/18/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump administration officials told a Senate panel on Tuesday [9-18-18] that a decades-old court ruling that limits the length of time migrant children can be detained hampers the government’s ability to stem illegal immigration, and needs to be amended by Congress. The officials, from the Department of Homeland Security and the […]
9/13/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUITS/TRUMP AS PRESDIENT: “President Donald Trump’s administration has agreed to reconsider the asylum claims of some 1,000 immigrant parents and children who were separated at the U.S. border as part of a deal to settle lawsuits over his ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy. The settlement, detailed in court documents late on Wednesday [9-12-18], represented a victory for […]
9/12/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even though hundreds of children separated from their families after crossing the border have been released under court order, the overall number of detained migrant children has exploded to the highest ever recorded — a significant counternarrative to the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the number of undocumented families coming to the […]
9/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Thursday [9-6-18] moved to abandon a longstanding court settlement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept locked up, proposing new regulations that would allow the government to detain families until their immigration cases are decided. Homeland Security officials said that ending the so-called Flores agreement of […]
9/6/2018
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUIT/MENTAL HEALTH/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The US government should cover mental health treatment costs for immigrant children who officials separated from their parents, a new lawsuit argues. The class-action lawsuit, filed by a group of lawyers in federal court this week, also seeks unspecified damages for children affected by the Trump administration’s now-reversed zero tolerance policy […]
8/23/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for the U.S. government and families separated by border officials after they entered the United States from Mexico said 37 more children have been freed from federal custody in the last week, as both sides work out means to enable children to seek asylum. In a Thursday [8-23-18] court filing, the […]
8/16/2018
CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump White House is planning an event next week to honor federal immigration agents — even as more than 500 migrant children remain separated from their parents after being separated at the border. The ‘Salute to the Heroes of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs [and] Border Protection’ is scheduled […]
8/15/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Health and Human Services is not taking responsibility for unaccompanied minors once they’re placed with sponsors, according to a Senate subcommittee report released Wednesday [8-15-18], an issue the subcommittee’s Republican chairman called an ‘incredibly difficult issue’…The report found that Health and Human Services had failed to establish rules to […]
8/14/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The government has made only incremental improvements to its troubled efforts to care for thousands of migrant children detained entering the U.S. without their parents, perpetuating a problem the Trump administration has aggravated with its ‘zero tolerance’ immigration crackdown, a bipartisan Senate report said Wednesday [8-15-18]. The 52-page study said no […]
8/2/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURT/IMMIGRANT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. government told a federal court judge on Thursday [8-2-18] that volunteers and non-profit groups, rather than government officials, should take the lead in locating more than 400 immigrant parents who were separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border and deported from the United States. The proposal came in a […]
8/2/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/IVANKA: “President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump came out Thursday [8-2-18] against the family separations that resulted from her father’s zero-tolerance policy for illegal immigration, calling them a ‘low point’ of her White House tenure thus far…The Trump administration last week reunited at least 1,442 children with their parents, though 2,551 children were […]
7/31/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official declined repeatedly at a congressional hearing Tuesday [7-31-18] to say whether the agency can document that migrant parents captured at the border and deported under the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy were given the opportunity to take their children. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, […]
7/31/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/CONGRESS/DHS/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As lawmakers grilled them at a congressional hearing Tuesday [7-31-18], Trump administration officials defended their efforts to reunite thousands of immigrant families that the government separated. And one top immigration official told lawmakers that family detention centers are ‘more like summer camp.’ Asked at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to describe the so-called […]
7/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For months, federal immigration officials along the 268-mile stretch of border that separates New Mexico and West Texas from Mexico had been testing a policy of separating migrant parents from their children. What they didn’t plan for was how to reunite them. When a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reconnect […]
7/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigrant advocacy groups are gearing up to track down more than 400 parents who were separated from their children and deported without them. The challenge is so daunting that government attorneys have bristled every time it’s come up in court. And now a number of nonprofit groups say they’re prepared to join […]
7/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The federal government was rushing on Thursday [7-26-18] to reunite the last 1,634 migrant families separated at the Southwest border who have been deemed ‘eligible’ for reunification, in the final hours of a court-ordered scramble to reverse a contentious immigration policy that drew international condemnation. While the government appeared to be on […]
7/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When federal judge Dana Sabraw gave orders to reunite separated families by certain dates, he made his demands clear: These were ‘firm deadlines,’ he warned. ‘Not aspirational goals.’ That was weeks ago, before an earlier deadline in the case. Fast forward to Thursday [7-26-18], and US officials are scrambling to reunite hundreds […]
7/24/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said more than 450 immigrant parents separated from their children under the government’s zero-tolerance policy for illegal border crossers may have been deported. In a court filing late Monday [7-23-18], Justice Department lawyers said case notes by immigration authorities show that 463 immigrants are no longer in the […]
7/23/2018
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration gave its first indication Monday [7-23-18] of how many parents separated from their children may have already been deported: More than 460. In a status update on the ongoing court-ordered family reunifications filed Monday, the government said 463 parents of separated children aged five and older are indicated as […]
7/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorneys for the U.S. government were due in court on Friday [7-20-18] to update a federal judge on efforts to reunite some 2,500 immigrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. The government has six more days to comply with the reunification […]
7/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, whose department has recently become entangled in the fight over separating undocumented children from their families, is pushing to keep focus on his agenda. Mr. Azar took office in January with a set of explicit goals after his predecessor, Dr. Tom Price, resigned under an ethics […]
7/16/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’ve seen a flurry of recent activity in efforts to reunite migrant children removed from their parents. But with all the legal and political wranglings, the latest developments can be difficult to follow. Here’s a quick look at what’s new and what’s next: What’s the latest? — The US government hasn’t been […]
7/16/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in San Diego is temporarily blocking the government from deporting recently reunited immigrant families, the latest ruling to go against the Trump administration as it rushes to reunite more than 2,500 children with their families. Judge Dana Sabraw gave the Trump administration a week to file a written objection […]
7/15/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is attempting to clarify the operational plan it intends to use to reunify migrant children separated from their parents at the southern border after a federal judge late Friday [7-13-18] said the Department of Health and Human Services either ‘does not understand the court’s orders or is acting […]
7/15/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Scavino45: ‘About 1-in-5 illegal alien adults crossing the United States-Mexico border with toddlers under the age of five are either c…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2018 8:33 am […]
7/12/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said on Thursday [7-12-18] it had reunited all eligible young migrant children with their parents after they had been separated when crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, two days after a court-imposed deadline. But nearly half – 46 of the 103 children under the age of 5 who were placed in […]
7/11/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after dozens of parents were reunited with children who had been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by immigration officials, the U.S. government faces a looming deadline to match another roughly 2,000 children with parents. The struggle to track and match parents with children under five suggests meeting a July 26 […]
7/11/2018
CHILDREN/CONGRESS/DEMS/EU/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats in Congress must no longer Obstruct – vote to fix our terrible Immigration Laws now. I am watching what is going on from Europe – it would be soooo simple to fix. Judges run the system and illegals and traffickers know how it works. They are just using children!” -Donald Trump, […]
7/10/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday [7-10-18] that his department was performing ‘one of the great acts of American generosity and charity’ in its care of immigrant children. Repeatedly pressed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on ‘The Situation Room’ about why HHS won’t allow media cameras into facilities housing children, Azar […]
7/10/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. government must reunite 63 children under the age of five who were separated by immigration officials after crossing into the United States from Mexico as soon as Tuesday [7-10-18] or face penalties, a federal judge said. U.S. Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego told government attorneys he was sticking with […]
7/10/2018
CHILDREN/THAILAND/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On behalf of the United States, congratulations to the Thai Navy SEALs and all on the successful rescue of the 12 boys and their coach from the treacherous cave in Thailand. Such a beautiful moment – all freed, great job!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 10, 2018 7:39 am […]
7/9/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Roughly half of the children under 5 years old who were separated from their parents at the border will be back with their moms and dads by a court-imposed deadline Tuesday [7-10-18], but the Trump administration is still not sure when the rest will be reunified. Still, at a court hearing […]
7/9/2018
CHILDREN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHO/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Monday [7-9-18] attacked a New York Times story that reported how his administration attempted to weaken a World Health Assembly resolution to promote breastfeeding, saying women shouldn’t be denied access to formula. The president’s tweet was spillover from a feud over a proposed breastfeeding resolution earlier this year […]
7/9/2018
CHILDREN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The failing NY Times Fake News story today about breast feeding must be called out. The U.S. strongly supports breast feeding but we don’t believe women should be denied access to formula. Many women need this option because of malnutrition and poverty.’ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2018 12:04 pm […]
7/9/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. government is struggling to reunite immigrant families it separated at the border with Mexico and only about half the children under age 5 will be back with their parents by a court-ordered deadline of Tuesday, a government attorney told a judge on Monday [7-9-18]. U.S. Judge Dana Sabraw in […]
7/8/2018
ASIA/CHILDREN: “The U.S. is working very closely with the Government of Thailand to help get all of the children out of the cave and to safety. Very brave and talented people!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 8, 2018 8:14 am […]
7/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is asking a judge for more time to reunite families who cross the border illegally then seek asylum, saying in court documents that officials are still struggling to match some children with parents arrested at the border. A federal judge gave the government until Tuesday [7-10-18] to reunite […]
7/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURT/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s been more than a week since a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to reunite the families it separated at the border. Officials say they’re working to comply and meet deadlines the court set. But they’ve been tight-lipped about many details. At a status hearing in a San Diego […]
7/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said Friday [7-6-18] that it may need more time to reunite the immigrant families it separated. The Department of Justice informed a federal judge in San Diego that the administration is in compliance with the judge’s order requiring the end of family separations at the US-Mexico border, except […]
7/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURT/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. government may not meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite migrant parents with their children who were separated after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to court documents filed overnight. The U.S. Department of Justice asked the U.S. District Court in San Diego to clarify if it would be breaching […]
7/5/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar now estimates that under 3,000 kids who may have been separated from their parents are in government custody — a figure far higher than his department released just nine days ago. HHS had previously reported that it had 2,047 children from separated families in its […]
7/4/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigrants separated from their children after being arrested for illegally entering the U.S. at the Mexican border are being asked to choose between being deported alone or with their children. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started giving parents who have been given deportation orders a form laying out their options after a […]
7/3/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How many immigrant families have been reunited since a judge ordered the US government to halt most family separations at the border? And how many kids from separated immigrant families are still in government custody? We don’t know, because officials aren’t saying. It’s been a week since they released a tally of […]
7/3/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Monday [7-2-18] became the latest to rebuke the Trump administration for its immigration practices — this time ordering the administration not to deny asylum seekers potential release from detention. The lawsuit predates the administration’s now-reversed practice of separating families at the border, but the national outcry over the […]
7/2/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal officials are struggling to reunite migrant children with their families despite a court deadline, and agencies do not have the resources or procedures to help thousands of children detained at the border back into the arms of their parents, according to a dozen current and former officials, advocates and experts. With […]
6/29/2018
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than 500 people, including at least one member of Congress, were arrested and escorted from the Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday [6-28-18] after staging a sit-in during a women-led march against the Trump administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to illegal immigration. The United States Capitol Police charged approximately 575 people […]
6/28/2018
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The State Department warned in a report on Thursday [6-28-18] that separating children from their parents can cause lasting psychological damage that leaves them vulnerable to trafficking, a cautionary tale that comes amid an uproar over a Trump administration immigration policy that has temporarily broken up migrant families as they enter the […]
6/28/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The State Department said children held in government facilities are at higher risk of psychological damage and should be separated from their families only as a ‘last resort.’ The finding, part of the agency’s Trafficking in Persons Report released Thursday [6-28-18], came as President Donald Trump seeks to quiet public furor […]
6/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURT/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump administration officials said on Wednesday [6-27-18] that it would be difficult to comply with the timetable in a federal court order requiring the reunification of migrant children and parents who were separated at the border. Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the Federal District Court in San Diego issued a preliminary injunction […]
6/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in California late Tuesday [6-26-18] ordered a halt to most family separations at the US border and the reunification of all families that have been separated in the first major rebuke to the Trump administration during ongoing furor over family separations at the border. The court order specifically requires […]
6/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DREAMERS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a ‘compromise’ immigration bill on Wednesday [6-27-18], as expected, that would have addressed the crisis of families being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. The House could vote next month on a narrower measure that is being developed and would focus specifically on the family […]
6/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction late Tuesday [6-26-18] temporarily stopping the Trump administration from separating children from their parents at the border and ordered that all families already separated be reunited within 30 days. Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the Federal District Court in San Diego said children […]
6/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday [6-26-18] over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump’s order last week ending the breakups was illusory. In a complaint filed with U.S. District Court in Seattle, 17 states and the District of […]
6/25/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was insistent on Monday [6-25-18] he doesn’t regret signing an executive order meant to keep migrant families together, even as the measure from last week continues to sow confusion and internal angst. Meanwhile, his administration continued to maintain there was little they could do to appease the border crisis […]
6/25/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Parents who cross illegally from Mexico to the United States with their children will not face prosecution for the time being despite President Donald Trump’s vow to continue a ‘zero tolerance’ policy on illegal immigration, the top U.S. border-security official told news outlets on Monday [6-25-18]. Kevin McAleenan, the head of U.S. […]
6/25/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go – will always be disfunctional. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally. Children brought back to their country……” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, […]
6/22/2018
CHILDREN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In May, when the outrage over the separation of migrant children from their parents was beginning to boil, President Trump’s secretary for Homeland Security shrugged off accusations that it was a ‘form of state terror.’ After all, she said, ‘We do it every day in every part of the country.’ On this […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has taken almost every possible Republican position on immigration in the span of a week as he’s tried to deal with the crisis he created of separating thousands of children from their parents at the border. He’s changed policies, made declarations, said his hands were tied, untied them to […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mother rushed toward her son the second he stepped off the jetway. Then she teared up. In the waiting area of Gate C14 at Baltimore Washington International Airport, she wrapped a blanket around him, cradled his head in her arms and wept. ‘I love you,’ she said in Spanish, between sobs. […]
6/21/2018
CHILDREN/DEFENSE/HHS/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border. The 20,000 beds at bases in […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/TEXAS: “Melania Trump visited immigrant children in a Texas border town on Thursday [6-21-18], and by the time the first lady left, she had made headlines for another reason. As the temperature climbed to 80 degrees at Joint Base Andrews near Washington, Mrs. Trump boarded her plane wearing an olive green coat that read, in […]
6/21/2018
CHILDREN/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “House Republican leaders on Thursday [6-21-18] delayed a vote on a broad immigration bill that would provide a path to citizenship for young, unauthorized immigrants while keeping migrant families together at the border. The measure had appeared destined to fail as Republicans remained at odds over immigration. The bill, a compromise […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Pentagon is assessing how — and where — to house as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on American military bases, a spokesman said on Thursday [6-21-18]. In a Pentagon statement, Lt. Col. Michael Andrews said officials from the Department of Health and Human Services have so far visited three military […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As reports came in of hundreds of children sent quietly to New York after being separated from their families at the southern border, consular officials from Central American countries scrambled to help. Overnight, their jobs had changed from processing passports and visas from their offices in Midtown Manhattan and on Park Avenue […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump continued to mislead about the origin of the humanitarian crisis on the US border on Thursday [6-21-18], a day after caving to political pressure on the issue. Loath to appear weak on immigration and borders, Trump continued alleging Democrats were to blame for the catastrophe, which he had sought […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/TEXAS: “First lady Melania Trump visited a child immigrant detention center near the nation’s border in Texas on Thursday [6-21-18], amid a continuing political crisis over the handling of children and adults arriving there in pursuit of asylum. Mrs. Trump’s surprise visit was announced by President Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting with reporters. Speaking […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Changes to the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy of detaining all adults illegally crossing the southern border were creating confusion throughout the immigration bureaucracy, from front-line law enforcement to social-service agencies supporting thousands of children. Officials had been told earlier Thursday [6-21-18] to prosecute only one adult traveling with children if two […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is scrambling to fix the confusion and humanitarian concerns unleashed by President Donald Trump’s reversal on the separation of parents and children who come across the southern border as undocumented migrants. Trump’s hurried executive order designed to defuse a ballooning political crisis caused its own set of problems, […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies on Thursday [6-21-18] to begin reuniting immigrant families recently separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, but his efforts to roll back a policy that drew global condemnation were beset by confusion. Despite Trump’s order, it remained unclear how and when more than 2,300 children who have been […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The much-vilified U.S. policy of separating children from parents who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border could continue under certain circumstances because of ambiguous language in President Donald Trump’s order meant to end the practice, legal experts said…The order signed by Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] calls for those families to be detained together […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/POPE FRANCIS/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Before President Trump’s about-face on Wednesday [6-20-18], Pope Francis criticized the administration’s separation of migrant children from their parents, saying in an interview earlier this week that ‘populism is not the solution’ to a migration crisis that is transforming global politics. In a rare sit-down interview, Francis told Reuters that ‘I […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday [6-20-18] that ends the administration’s policy of separating migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, abandoning the president’s previous stance that only Congress can fix the problem…And the president continued to say that the underlying issue remains one for Congress to fix, titling the document […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] directed his administration to try to detain migrant families together amid a growing political firestorm over a new policy that had separated adults arriving at the southern border from thousands of children traveling with them. In an executive order, Mr. Trump said families seeking asylum should […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In the three years since Donald J. Trump began his presidential bid by maligning Mexican immigrants, Representative Will Hurd, a Texas Republican in a Democratic-leaning district, has faced voters of all stripes who were angry about Mr. Trump’s divisive style. But Mr. Hurd, who represents a heavily Hispanic region that stretches […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “GOP Sen. Thom Tillis announced legislation from a group of Republican senators that would stop the separation of immigrant children from their parents, according to a statement from his office that came right as Trump signed an executive order reversing the practice. The bill would allow undocumented immigrant families to stay together during […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA: “First lady Melania Trump has been working behind the scenes at the White House for the past several days encouraging President Donald Trump to keep families at the US border from being separated, a White House official told CNN Wednesday [6-20-18]. Melania Trump has had several private conversations with her husband, the official said, […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] reversed his debunked argument that he had no authority to stop separations of undocumented immigrant families at the border, signing an executive order to keep parents and kids together…Trump’s climbdown came after he faced intense pressure from across the political spectrum and from religious, political and […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday [6-20-18] and signed an executive order that ends the separation of families by indefinitely detaining parents and children together at the border. ‘We’re going to have strong, very strong borders but we are going to keep the families together,’ Mr. Trump said as […]
6/20/2018
CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @PastorDScott: Once the mid terms are over, liberals won’t talk about detained or separated illegal immigrant children until 2020. #itsa…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 20, 2018 9:02 am […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] backed down and abandoned his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on the U.S.-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad. Trump signed an executive order requiring that immigrant families be detained together when they are caught […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “National Guard troops from eight states will be withheld or recalled from the southern border, the states’ governors announced this week, over mounting objections to the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents there. The governors of Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia and North Carolina declared […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump and two members of his cabinet mounted an aggressive defense on Monday [6-18-18] of his policy of separating children from their parents at the border in response to a growing outcry from members of both parties…Attorney General Jeff Sessions also defended the practice, while insisting that ‘we do not […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/BUSH/CHILDREN/HILLARY CLINTON/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/OBAMA FAMILY: “In the weeks since the Trump administration instituted a zero tolerance policy that seeks to criminally prosecute anyone who crosses the border unlawfully and effectively causes children to be separated from their families, criticism has poured in from advocacy groups, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and a host of political […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump ridiculed on Tuesday [6-19-18] what he said was a total lack of security at the nation’s borders, falsely blaming Democrats for separating families and dismissing as ‘crazy’ Republican proposals to hire thousands of new immigration judges. Rejecting a proposal by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas to end family separations by […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Guatemalan woman who was separated from her 7-year-old son after crossing the border from Mexico last month filed a new lawsuit on Tuesday [6-19-18] challenging the Trump administration’s practice of splitting up immigrant families even when an adult claims asylum. The suit, filed in federal court in Washington, demands the immediate […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s aides are struggling to defend their talking points on the furor over the administration’s practice of separating families who enter the U.S. illegally, with officials and spokespeople engaging in heated exchanges with little backing from congressional Republicans. As the outcry has grown over the family separations, Trump officials […]
6/19/2018
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We must always arrest people coming into our Country illegally. Of the 12,000 children, 10,000 are being sent by their parents on a very dangerous trip, and only 2000 are with their parents, many of whom have tried to enter our Country illegally on numerous occasions.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 19, 2018 […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday [6-18-18] he would not allow the United States to become a ‘migrant camp’ as his administration faced a barrage of criticism for separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats and some in Trump’s own Republican Party have admonished the administration for […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/STEPHEN MILLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller spent years on the political fringe in the nation’s capital as high-decibel immigration hard-liners, always warning about the dangers of open borders but rarely in a position to affect law or policy. Now, Mr. Sessions, the attorney general and former senator from Alabama, and Mr. […]
6/18/2018
CHILDREN/HUMAN RIGHTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The United Nations’ top human rights official on Monday [6-18-18] entered the mounting furor over the Trump administration’s policy of separating undocumented immigrant children from their parents, calling for an immediate halt to a practice he condemned as abuse. United States immigration authorities have detained almost 2,000 children in the past […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump remained resistant on Monday [6-18-18] in the face of growing public outcry over his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the border, repeating the false assertion that Democrats were the ones to blame for it, and suggesting that criminals — not parents — were toting juveniles to […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans are growing anxious over President Donald Trump’s policy to break up families at the border — and now even his closest allies are trying to help find a way out of a growing political crisis. With the White House refusing to reverse the practice and demanding Congress step into the […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy and resulting separations of undocumented parents and kids is exploding into the most emotive and politically unpredictable test yet of President Donald Trump’s effort to change the character of America. As outrage grows over traumatic stories of families being torn apart, the big question this […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his Cabinet are refusing to publicly back down from their intensely controversial practice of separating migrant families at the border, despite pressure from fellow Republicans to ease up on what critics are calling a heartless policy…Trump hit back at the criticism during a space policy event at the […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the Trump administration’s practice of taking undocumented immigrant children from their families and putting them in government facilities on US borders, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Only 28% approve. But among Republicans, there is majority support for the policy that has resulted in an […]
8/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/ELECTIONS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Top aides to President Donald Trump are planning additional crackdowns on immigration before the November midterms, despite a growing backlash over the administration’s move to separate migrant children from parents at the border. Senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and a team of officials from the Justice Department, Department of Labor, Department of Homeland […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday [6-18-18] called for the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen as a result of immigration policy that has resulted in family separations at the US border…The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy at the border has resulted in thousands of family separations. The policy hasn’t […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker directed the state National Guard not to send any assets or personnel to the US-Mexico border because of the Trump administration’s ‘inhumane treatment’ of children, communications director Lizzy Guyton said in a statement. ‘I think it’s cruel and inhumane, and we told the National Guard to hold steady […]