Parents Face Tougher Rules to Get Immigrant Children Back
24 September 2018 - Thousands of immigrant families are experiencing increasing hurdles to take custody of sons, daughters and relatives who crossed the border.
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Federal Agency Says It Lost Track of 1,488 Migrant Children
20 September 2018 - A Senate subcommittee has found that federal officials for the second time lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children earlier this year.
Government to Expand, Extend Texas Tent Shelter for Children
11 September 2018 - A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that the facility will be expanded to 3,800 beds from its initial capacity of 360 beds.
Were Immigrant Teenagers Strapped to Chairs with Bags Over Their Heads?
10 September 2018 - Immigrant children as young as 14 were forcibly restrained at a Virginia facility, but authorities consider the methods acceptable.
Logic Stages Immigrant Protest At VMAs with Parents, Kids
21 August 2018 - The children, including some younger ones who appeared intimidated by the crowd, stood in a line as a "human wall."
Senate Study Faults Government Care of Migrant Children
15 August 2018 - Some 200,000 of these children have entered the U.S. over the past six years.
Texas Lockup is Epicenter of Family Immigration Detention
10 August 2018 - Currently housing 1,520 mothers and their children, about 10 percent are families who were temporarily separated and then reunited under a “zero tolerance policy” that has since been reversed.
Texas Opens Investigation of Reported Immigrant Child Death
9 August 2018 - A report that a child died shortly after being released from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas has inflamed the debate over the detention of immigrant families.
Documents: Youth Care Worker Sexually Abused Immigrant Boys
3 August 2018 - Federal authorities allege that a former youth care worker at a Phoenix-area facility for immigrant youths sexually abused eight teenage boys.
More Than 300 Older Children Split at Border Are Reunited
20 July 2018 - The Trump administration said it has reunified 364 children ages 5 and older with their families after they were separated at the border.
Trump Administration Asks the Pentagon to House Immigrant Families on Military Sites
27 June 2018 - Meanwhile, the federal government has not answered questions about how it will comply with an injunction ordering authorities to return children taken from their families under "zero tolerance."
Did News Media Incorrectly Report That Border Agents Separated a Girl from Her Mother?
19 August 2018 - Mainstream news organizations were criticized for illustrating articles about family separation at the border with a photograph of a crying child who was in fact never separated from her mother.
