Families who were separated at the US-Mexico border by the Trump administration and then reunited with their children say they are suffering deep emotional wounds and want the US government to pay for mental health treatment to remedy the situation.
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge has reaffirmed his ruling that the Trump administration must resume a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The ruling has no immediate effect because US District Judge John D. Bates in Washington gave the administration 20 days to decide if it would want to […]
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For months, a Honduran couple watched their only son grow up in videos while he was kept in US government custody. That’s where he took his first steps and spoke his first words. The parents got to embrace the 15-month-old boy again Friday, five months after US immigration officials forcibly separated the baby from his father at the Texas border.
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The children’s descriptions of various facilities are part of a voluminous and at times scathing report filed in federal court this week in Los Angeles in a case over whether the Trump administration is meeting its obligations under a long-standing settlement governing how young immigrants should be treated in custody.
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Thousands of migrants are in this same situation: Having fled from ultraviolent gangs in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, they are caught near the US border and sent back under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy.
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The Justice Department says a judge’s order to reunite families separated at the border “makes it even more imperative” that Congress pass immigration legislation that would enable it “to simultaneously enforce the law and keep families together.”
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The 4-month-old Honduran had just entered the United States illegally with a man who first claimed to be her father, then said he was her uncle, and presented what appeared to be a false birth certificate. She was among about 1,100 people in a former warehouse that tripled in size last year, largely to accommodate people – many from Central America – traveling as families, and children traveling alone.
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The Trump administration has scaled back a key element of its zero-tolerance immigration policy amid a global uproar over the separation of more than 2,300 migrant families, halting the practice of turning over parents to prosecutors for charges of illegally entering the country.
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Trump administration officials say the US government knows the location of all children in its custody after separating them from their families at the border and is working to reunite them.
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The Trump administration is calling for the expanded use of family detention for immigrant parents and children who are stopped along the US-Mexico border, a move decried by advocates as a cruel and ineffective attempt to deter families from coming to the United States.
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