Male Republicans support separating families trying to cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico, but most other groups — and Texas voters overall — do not, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy drew sharp rebukes after it was announced in April 2018 — especially after children who had been separated from their parents started being placed in a tent city in Tornillo. Trump signed an executive order June 20 that would keep immigrant families together, but it’s unclear how — or if — families that have already been separated will be reunited. With support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Texas Tribune has been reporting on the issue from the Texas-Mexico border, Washington, D.C., and Austin. You can help by sending story tips to tips@texastribune.org.
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For families who have already been separated, policy change doesn’t guarantee reunification
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order he says will “keep the families together” when they’re apprehended illegally crossing the border. But that does little for families who have already been split apart.
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Donald Trump reverses course, signs an executive order to stop separating families
Meanwhile, members of Congress are working on legislation to address the issue.
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Three Central Americans separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border are suing the federal government
The lawsuit argues that the constitutional rights of the families were violated by the Trump administration’s policy and asks that the parents be reunited with their children, one as young as 2 years old.
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This Texas nonprofit houses nearly half of America’s undocumented children in custody
Austin-based Southwest Key Programs has been paid hundreds of millions of dollars to care for thousands of immigrant children in federal custody. Founder Juan Sanchez says about 10 percent of the children the nonprofit cares for were separated from their parents.
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Meet the man going head-to-head with federal agents to help asylum-seeking immigrants cross the border
After initially being turned away at the border in El Paso, two families were allowed to enter the United States Wednesday to seek asylum with help from Ruben Garcia, the director of a local shelter who has made a practice of escorting immigrants across the bridge.
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Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs at Texas shelter, lawsuit claims
Children held at the Shiloh Treatment Center, a government contractor south of Houston that houses immigrant minors, described being held down and injected, according to federal court filings.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott urges congressional action on separated immigrant families: “This disgraceful condition must end.”
“This disgraceful condition must end; and it can only end with action by Congress to reform the broken immigration system,” Abbott wrote in a letter to all members of the Texas delegation.
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Report: Youngest children separated from their families held in three “tender age” shelters in South Texas
More than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s policy of “zero tolerance” for illegal border crossers.
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What happens when immigrant families cross the border outside a port of entry
How exactly are families being separated at the border? Here’s where parents and children go after they’re apprehended.