27 June 2018 Both the White House and Attorney General have used (and misused) a rudimentary and unverifiable statistic in order to downplay their roles in the family separation crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
26 June 2018 Health and Human Services officials said they will reunite children with detained parents if Congress lifts a 20-day limit on child detention.
20 June 2018 Hundreds of the Attorney General's fellow church-members signed a letter claiming his "zero-tolerance" immigration policy had harmed "thousands of vulnerable humans."
19 June 2018 Attorneys, politicians, and journalists all describe a bureaucracy unprepared for the challenges of reuniting large numbers of children forcibly separated from their parents.
18 June 2018 There is no federal law mandating children and parents be separated at the border; a policy resulting in that outcome was enacted in May 2018.
15 June 2018 Multiple news outlets reported that the Department of Health and Human Services is planning tent cities to accommodate a recent influx of immigrant children — but the practice is not new.
14 June 2018 A quote widely attributed to the Attorney General appeared to stem from a viral video shared by Sen. Jeff Merkley's visit to a detention center.
11 June 2018 Immigration lawyers have already vowed to take legal action against Sessions's ruling, which would deny asylum to almost all victims of gang violence and domestic abuse.
8 June 2018 The Department of Health and Human Services announced that 10,773 unaccompanied immigrant children were indeed in detention facilities as of May 2018.
12 February 2018 His comments were reportedly a reference to the legal tradition of common law that the American sheriff's system shares with England.
7 February 2018 A spoof video about the notoriously anti-pot Attorney General was produced by a comedy group and managed to trick some viewers.
5 January 2018 The move has caused uncertainty in the legal cannabis industry just days after California opened the market for recreational use.
