The clock is ticking for Sandy, a mother in immigration detention who was separated from her four kids — including her then 5-month-old son — earlier this summer. A federal judge has ordered that children under 5 be reunited with their parents by Tuesday. But it’s hard to know if that will actually happen.
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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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Facing a Tuesday deadline to reunite about 100 migrant toddlers with their parents, feds say they’ve reunited 2
At a federal court hearing in California on Monday, a government lawyer also said that nearly half of those children won’t be reunited by the Tuesday deadline.
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Tornillo detention center for immigrant children will remain open at least another month
The immigration detention center, which held more than 300 minors two weeks ago, will remain open at least through Aug. 13, according to a federal agency.
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Analysis: Do the feds have a plan to reunite migrant families? We’re about to find out.
U.S. immigration authorities are under court order to reunite migrant toddlers with their parents this week, and to reunite the rest of the separated immigrants before the end of the month. It’s not going to be easy.
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Some migrant children under 5 unlikely to be reunited with their parents by Tuesday deadline
It will be especially difficult to reunite toddlers with parents who may have been released into the interior United States or even deported back to their home countries, government attorneys argued.
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“A room so cold that we got headaches:” Mother details conditions inside migrant detention center
After fleeing Honduras with her young son, Yulissa Pacheco, 24, spent her first days in the United States inside a border detention facility. Watch as she describes the nights she spent sleeping on mats and listening to mothers who were separated from their children weep.
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Analysis: If kids separated from their parents can’t hold our attention, what will?
Public attention has moved, but the news hasn’t: The separated families on the border are still waiting to be reunited.
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In McAllen, immigration isn’t a problem — it’s a way of life
The Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy is seen as unwanted and unfair in the border city of 142,000 that’s home to the massive U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility where families crossing the border illegally have been separated.
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Federal officials cite “zero tolerance” after border apprehensions dip nearly 20 percent in June
The total number of apprehensions on the southwest border fell to 34,114 in June compared to 40,338 the month before. But border crossings often dip in the summer.
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The Trump administration is not keeping its promises to asylum seekers who come to ports of entry
As the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border comes more into focus, Trump administration officials insist that there is a “right way” for families fleeing persecution to seek asylum in the United States: Come to an official port of entry. But such families are still finding themselves in a lot of trouble.