Days after a tent city went up near El Paso, demonstrators near the facility took aim at the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from parents seeking asylum.
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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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Trump administration opens tent city near El Paso to house separated immigrant children
A center for unaccompanied immigrant minors is up and running in West Texas, just one day after federal officials announced the location, state Rep. César Blanco confirmed to The Texas Tribune on Friday.
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Ryan opposes Trump policy of separating immigrant children from parents
Ryan said a draft of a compromise immigration bill that circulated on Capitol Hill late Thursday would end the practice of dividing families detained at the border.
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Trump administration makes site selection for tent city near El Paso to house immigrant children separated from parents
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Thursday it has selected Tornillo as a site to house immigrant children separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.
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Inside a former Walmart in Brownsville that holds nearly 1,500 immigrant boys
On Wednesday, federal authorities allowed a small group of reporters to tour the secretive shelter, the largest of its kind in the nation.
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A grandmother seeking asylum was separated from her disabled grandson at the border. It’s been 10 months.
Maria Vandelice de Bastos hasn’t seen her grandson for 10 months, since they crossed into New Mexico at a port of entry seeking asylum, according to her attorney. Her grandson has severe epilepsy and autism.
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Report: Trump administration considers Texas sites for tent cities for immigrant children
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is considering several Texas military bases as sites for tent cities to house thousands of immigrant children separated from their parents, per McClatchy.
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‘They just took them?’ Frantic parents separated from their kids fill courts on the border
Federal courtrooms across the Southwest are being flooded with distraught mothers and fathers charged with misdemeanor illegal entry and separated from their children.
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A family was separated at the border, and this distraught father took his own life
A Honduran father separated from his wife and child killed himself in a padded cell in Starr County last month, according to Border Patrol agents and an incident report filed by sheriff’s deputies.
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Federal government tells border prosecutors to adopt “zero-tolerance” policy on immigration
The U.S. Department of Justice’s directive tells federal prosecutors on the southwest border to prosecute all Department of Homeland Security referrals for alleged violations of federal immigration illegal-entry laws.