A federal judge in San Diego on Tuesday barred the separation of migrant children from their parents and ordered immigration officials to reunify within 30 days families that have been divided.
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Feds remain mum on whether there is a plan to reunify parents and children who are seeking asylum
While officials on Tuesday provided more details on reuniting families who will be deported, it’s not clear how — or if — they plan to reunify thousands who came to the U.S. seeking a safe haven from violent situations back home.
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Border official says agency isn’t referring immigrant families for prosecution
Another federal official did say, however, that two Texas military bases will be used to house migrants.
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Most Texas Republicans think point of Mueller investigation is to discredit Trump, UT/TT Poll finds
What Texans think about the investigations in Russian interference in the 2016 elections has a lot to do with voters’ partisan preferences.
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South Texas — already ground zero for immigrant family separations — hit with disaster-level flooding
Some migrants, unable to cross the border, have chosen to wait out the storms exposed on the bridges connecting the United States and Mexico.
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Mayors from across the country tried to visit a tent city holding immigrant children in Texas. They got no answers.
A Thursday trip by a group of mayors yielded no new information about what, if anything, will change inside the detention center for immigrant children after President Donald Trump’s executive order to end family separations.
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Melania Trump visits separated migrant children in McAllen, Texas
The first lady “supports family reunification” and wanted to meet separated children for herself, a spokesperson said.
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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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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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Texas House Speaker Joe Straus asks Trump to end policy of separating immigrant children
House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, wants President Donald Trump to end his administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that has led to thousands of immigrant children being separated from their parents at the border.
