This comprehensive archive includes news coverage starting June 11, 2018, organized alphabetically by media outlet. The final category is “Other” and includes stories by outlets with only one or two stories about the topic. This is a living document and will be updated as the story evolves. Please contact Katie Kurutz at kk*****@fi******.org if you have a story you would like to add.
The Atlantic/The Hechinger Report
The Atlantic: The Exceptional Cruelty of a No-Hugging Policy
When kids separated from their families on the U.S.-Mexico border can’t get hugs or physical comfort from the caretakers at their shelters—or even from one another—their experience becomes even more traumatic. (6/20/18)
The Atlantic: Republicans Are Lost on Immigration
Mixed directives from Trump have left Republicans yet another obstacle in their path to immigration reform. (6/20/18)
The Atlantic: The Clinical Case for Keeping Families Together
Two practitioners apply a decade of research on Central American families to understand the impacts of the administration’s new policy. (6/20/18)
The Atlantic: How Some Immigrant Families Are Avoiding Separation
Space constraints are preventing the government from keeping everyone who crosses the border in detention, allowing some to make it out of McAllen, Texas. (06/21/18)
The Hechinger Report: How trauma and stress affect a child’s brain development
Pediatricians and child development experts are concerned about the long-term effects that the Trump Administration’s family separation policy could have on migrant children who are separated from their parents. This separation can cause “toxic stress” that impedes the brain’s development, which could lead to long-term mental health and physical health issues. (06/22/18)
The Atlantic: Separating Kids From Their Families Can Permanently Damage Their Brains
A pediatrician explains how the trauma of family separation can change biology. (6/22/18)
The Atlantic: How ‘Sesame Street’ Helps Traumatized Children
Resources are also geared toward migrant children at the U.S. border with Mexico. (6/24/18)
The Hechinger Report: The importance of difficult conversations in U.S. classrooms: Teaching about the migrant crisis
Many voices have weighed in on this debate, but we remain unsure of how to talk about it. Americans have especially neglected to make sense of the migrant crisis in classrooms across the country. (06/25/18)
The Atlantic: House Leadership Is About to Introduce a Family-Separations Bill
On Tuesday night, they plan to offer narrow legislation to address President Trump’s most controversial immigration policy. (6/26/18)
The Atlantic: Kids Describe the Fear of Separation at the Border
At a shelter for migrants just released from detention, 9-year-old Paulina sits in front a volunteer reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar aloud in Spanglish: “On Friday, he ate through five naranjas.” Paulina sat quietly with her books most of the afternoon. (6/30/18)
CBS
CBS News: Thousands protest Trump administration’s family separation policy
A newly-opened “tent city” along the Texas border is now at the center of the national immigration debate. The camp is housing teenage boys who illegally entered the United States — unaccompanied by an adult. (06/17/18)
CBS News: DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defends family separation in heated White House briefing
Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen addressed reporters Monday amid intense backlash on the Trump administration’s policy of prosecuting immigrants crossing the border that has resulted in the separation of families. (6/18/18)
CBS Los Angeles: CNN Poll: Majority Oppose Policy That Causes Family Separation, But Republicans Approve
Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the Trump administration’s practice of taking undocumented immigrant children from their families and putting them in government facilities on US borders, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Only 28% approve. (6/18/18)
CBS News: Audio tape purportedly of sobbing immigrant kids grabs spotlight
In audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking voices of small Spanish-speaking children crying out for their parents at a U.S. immigration facility took center stage Monday in the growing uproar over the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents. (6/19/18)
CBS News: Corey Lewandowski says “Wah wah” when told about girl with Down syndrome
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has created a stir by dismissing a story about a girl with Down syndrome with a sarcastic “Wahwah.” Lewandowski appeared Tuesday on Fox News Channel to discuss Mr. Trump’s hard-line immigration policy. (6/20/18)
CBS News: Pope Francis thinks border family separations are “immoral”
Pope Francis has endorsed statements by U.S. Catholic leaders who called the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy on illegal border crossings “immoral” and contrary to the values of the church. (6/20/18)
CBS News: Melania Trump visits detention center in Texas
First Lady Melania Trump has arrived at a detention center in Texas housing immigrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. (6/20/18)
CBS News: Roger Rosenblatt on why the family separation crisis touches us all
I’m thinking, of course, of the abomination at the Texas border – the forced separation of children from parents, with children placed in cage-like structures. (6/24/18)
CBS News: Texas group takes in about 30 parents separated from kids
A Texas charitable organization says 32 immigrant parents separated from their children after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border were freed into its care, but they don’t know where their kids are or when they might see them again despite government assurances that family reunification would be well organized. (6/25/18)
CBS News: Thousands protest Trump immigration policies across U.S.
Marches are underway across cities in the U.S. to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Hundreds of thousands of protesters could attend more than 700 marches in cities from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., and New York City. (6/30/18)
Bloomberg
Bloomberg (Opinion): Family Separation Isn’t Trump’s Katrina; It’s Worse: Theme of the Week
Like the headlines, Bloomberg Opinion’s commentary this week was dominated by President Donald Trump’s policy of separating immigrant families at the southern border. (6/24/18)
Bloomberg: Immigrant Children Forcibly Medicated While in U.S. Custody, Lawyers Say
Children who allege they’re being detained for crossing the U.S. border without any court oversight and forcibly medicated will have to wait another month for a judge to consider whether the government’s practices violate a 1997 agreement. (6/25/18)
Bloomberg: Los Angeles, New York Oppose Trump Bid to Detain Children
The Trump administration shouldn’t get court permission to detain immigrant children because of a crisis of its own making, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco said. (6/29/18)
CNN
CNN Opinion: Padma Lakshmi: I could have been that immigrant child torn from her mother
I was two years old when my mother left me in India with my grandparents to come to the United States. She was fleeing an abusive marriage, and needed to find a job and a safe place for us to land. I didn’t understand. (6/13/18)
Also featured in The Cut (6/13/18)
CNN Politics: The sound of children crying for their parents at the border
The audio was published Monday by the investigative nonprofit ProPublica. It adds a visceral element to the coverage of a controversial Trump administration policy of taking undocumented immigrant children from their families and putting them in government facilities on US borders. (6/19/18)
CNN (VIDEO): Doctor: Family separation is child abuse
Dr. Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, says the Trump administration’s practice of separating families at the border is “child abuse.” (6/19/18)
CNN: Ivanka encouraged Trump to act to stop separations, made calls to lawmakers
Ivanka Trump met with her father, President Donald Trump, on Tuesday to discuss the images of immigrant families being separated at the US-Mexico border, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told CNN. (6/19/18)
CNN: Trump administration: Some children currently in Border Patrol custody will be reunited with parents
The plan, however, does not address the more than 2,300 children that have already been separated from their families since the “zero-tolerance” policy was implemented earlier this year that sparked outcry across the nation. The Trump administration has not yet offered a plan on how to address the reunifications of those families. (06/21/18)
CNN Politics: Melania Trump makes surprise visit to border facilities
First lady Melania Trump touched down in McAllen, Texas, Thursday making a publicly unannounced and hastily planned trip to get a first-hand look at the crisis affecting immigrant families at the US border. (6/21/18)
CNN Politics: The White House’s plan to solve the family separation crisis: ¯_(?)_/¯
“Again, this is a temporary solution. This isn’t going to last. Congress still has to step up. They still have to do their job. This will only last a short amount of time, because we’re going to run out of space, we’re going to run out of resources in order to keep people together.” (6/26/18)
Huffington Post
HuffPost: Detaining Migrant Children Has Lifelong Psychological Effects, Experts Say
America’s largest shelter for migrant children looks more like a jail than a safe space for kids. On Wednesday, journalists were allowed inside the former Walmart store in Brownsville, Texas, now filled with more than 1,400 boys ages 10 to 17, and their reports are harrowing. (06/14/18)
Huffington Post: Laura Ingraham Compares Child Immigrant Detention Centers To Summer Camps
The Fox News host also quoted an article that likens the centers, some of which keep children in cage-like structures, to boarding school. (6/19/18)
The Huffington Post: Separating Breastfeeding Babies From Moms Could Affect ‘Health For A Lifetime’: Doctors
The Trump administration has established at least three “tender-age” facilities where the youngest detainees are being kept. (6/22/18)
Huffington Post: More Americans Blame Undocumented Parents Than Trump For Family Separations
The White House has managed to dodge a lot of blame for a deeply unpopular policy. (6/22/18)
Huffington Post: Migrant Children In Detention Center Told Not To Talk To Reporters
Leaked audio and video shared with MSNBC features an adult cautioning child detainees. (6/26/18)
Huffington Post: Thousands Of Women In D.C. Protest Trump’s Migrant Family Separation
Rep. Jayapal (D-Wash.) and hundreds of others were arrested while demonstrating against Trump’s zero tolerance policy. (6/28/18)
The Hill
The Hill: Toxic effects of stress on children separated from parents
Many of these families are fleeing trauma and violence in their home countries, only to be faced with the new trauma we have inflicted through forcible separation. The impact of these traumas on young children and their developing brains is real. Trauma is different from the typical stressors children experience in their normal daily life; those are the healthy stresses from which children learn and grow. (06/18/18)
Also reported by Business Insider (6/17/18)
The Hill: Michael Grimm: Audio of migrant kids the ‘exact same’ as sounds heard at daycare
Republican congressional candidate Michael Grimm said Tuesday that the widely circulated audio tapes of migrant kids crying after being separated from their families is the “exact same” as the sounds one would hear at a daycare. (6/20/18)
The Hill: Michigan receiving detained immigrant children as young as 3 months old
Michigan’s Department of Civil Rights says immigrant children as young as three months of age have arrived in the state for temporary foster care placement after being separated from their parents at the U.S. border.
The Hill: Dem lawmaker wants UN to send observers to US-Mexico border to look at family separations
Rep.Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is asking the United Nations to probe the impact of the Trump administration’s controversial “zero-tolerance” policy at the border. (6/21/18)
The Hill: Trump: ‘We do a much better job’ with children at the border than Obama
President Trump on Saturday defended his administration for treating migrant children detained at the border “much better” than former President Obama’s administration, amid controversy over immigration policies that have separated thousands of children from their parents. (6/23/18)
The Hill: Trump’s move to halt family separations leaves questions unanswered
President Trump‘s executive order to halt his administration’s practice of separating migrant families at the border dominated the Sunday show circuit this week, as the country’s leaders grapple with the question of what comes next. (6/24/18)
The Hill: Advocates point to cancelled Obama-era program meant to keep families together after Trump separation policy
Immigration advocates are highlighting the Trump administration’s cancellation of an Obama-era pilot program meant to keep migrant families seeking asylum together, as President Trump faces blowback for the policy separating the families at the border. (06/25/18)
The Hill: Media outlets unite to track down migrant children separated from parents under Trump policy
Six news organizations are partnering together to track down information about the migrant children being held in detention centers and shelters across the country after being separated from their families upon crossing the U.S.–Mexico border. (6/30/18)
The Hill: Five immigrant children sue Trump administration for ‘cruel policies and practices’
The lawsuit, filed Friday in a federal court in California, names Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and E. Scott Lloyd, the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, as defendants. (6/30/18)
Also featured in NBC News (6/29/18), Newsweek (6/30/18)
The Hill: GOP rep denied access to facility housing immigrant kids
Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) was denied entry Monday to a facility holding migrant children, including two girls who had been separated from their parents, after earlier being told he would be able to tour the location. (7/2/18)
KPCC/LAist
KPCC ‘Airtalk’: Week in politics: Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ border policy sparks outrage, House might see immigration votes this week and more
AirTalk’s weekly political roundtable covers the headlines you might have missed over the weekend and previews what to watch for this week in national politics. (06/18/18)
KPCC: Trump signs order to end family separations
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to end his controversial policy that has resulted in thousands of family separations and brought criticism from Democrats and Republicans. (06/20/18)
LAist: Scores of Immigrant Children Separated From Parents are at California Facilities
About 100 children removed from their parents at the U.S. Mexico border are now staying in child care facilities in California — including 16 kids aged eight to 17 in a Fullerton group home run by Crittenton Services for Children and Families. (6/22/18)
KPCC: LA judge to rule on Trump request to detain immigrant children longer
L.A.-based federal judge Dolly Gee will rule on whether to revise the Flores agreement, which limits the time immigrant children can be detained. She previously ruled against the Obama administration in 2015, when it detained children beyond the 20-day limit. (6/25/18)
KPCC Take Two: Scores of immigrant children separated from their parents are at California facilities
About 100 children removed from their parents at the U.S. Mexico border are now staying in child care facilities in California — including 16 kids aged eight to 17 in a Fullerton group home run by Crittenton Services for Children and Families. (06/25/18)
KPCC: Reuniting Families Separated At The Border Proves Complicated
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration has 30 days to reunite all families that it has separated at the border. But advocates and activists who have already been trying to reconnect individual migrant children with their parents say their experiences suggest the process of reunification will be complicated. (06/28/18)
The Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times: ‘No kids in cages’: Children’s book authors unite against Trump policy separating families at the border
About 2,000 children’s and YA book authors and their supporters have signed onto a campaign to oppose President Trump’s controversial family separation immigration policy under the name “Kid Lit Says No Kids in Cages.” (06/19/18)
The Los Angeles Times: Nearly 100 children separated from parents at the border are in L.A. area, most of them detained, advocates say
Nearly 100 children separated from migrant parents at the southern border in recent weeks under President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy have reached the Greater Los Angeles region, according to local immigrant rights organizations. (6/20/18)
The Los Angeles Times: Youngest migrants are held in ‘tender age’ shelters in Texas
Youngest migrants are held in ‘tender age’ shelters in Texas. (6/20/18)
The Los Angeles Times: Trump orders end to his family-separation policy amid national furor
In a rare retreat amid continued outrage about his “zero tolerance” policy at the southern border, President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to end family separation.
Also featured inChicao Tribune (6/20/18)
The Los Angeles Times (Editorial): Trump ends family separations — by locking kids up with their parents instead
But his solution — detaining entire families together while the adults face, in most cases, misdemeanor charges of illegal entry — raises enormously troubling problems of its own. Innocent children do not belong in jails or detention centers, as a 20-year-old federal consent decree acknowledges. (6/21/18)
The Los Angeles Times: L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis attacks Trump’s executive order as ‘reality show sham’
“This administration continues to use traumatized children as pawns to further the president’s anti-immigrant agenda,” Solis said in a statement. “This executive order simply perpetuates this White House’s anti-family and inhumane approach to immigrants and immigration reform.” (6/21/18)
The Los Angeles Times: Lawsuit alleges improper medication of migrant children in federal shelters
Advocates have filed a lawsuit charging that the 16-year-old and more than 30 others — some as young as 11 — are representative of thousands of children housed in federally contracted immigrant shelters who can be medicated without parental or judicial consent. (06/21/18)
The Los Angeles Times: Children separated from parents arrive in L.A., but frustrated community gets few answers
Immigration and aid groups said nearly 100 kids separated under President Trump’s policy have reached detention centers in the Los Angeles area, and local officials on Thursday knew little about the children’s whereabouts, their living conditions and what the federal government’s plans were to reunite them with their families. (06/21/18)
The Los Angeles Times: Reuniting families who were separated at the border could take months, federal officials warn
The process of reunifying families who have been separated at the border could take months, federal officials said Friday, as lawyers, advocatesand lawmakers said that the path ahead remained murky and chaotic, and the Trump administration failed again to provide clear direction on how to resolve the issue. (6/22/18)
The Los Angeles Times: A crying toddler has become the symbolic face of family separations. Does her backstory matter?
The cover of Time’s July 2 edition lifts the image of a 2-year-old Honduran girl, Yanela Sanchez, from a photo of her crying as a Border Patrol agent pats down her mother at the border in Texas.Yanela’s image is plopped onto a red background, alongside a superimposed Trump. (6/23/18)
The Los Angeles Times: Kerry Kennedy and Dolores Huerta rally supporters of immigrant family reunification
Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, joined labor activist Dolores Huerta at a park in this border city Saturday to announce a hunger strike to demand the government reunite immigrant families it separated. (6/24/18)
The Los Angeles Times: Difficult road lies ahead for reuniting migrant children with parents, despite court ruling
A day after a San Diego federal judge issued an injunction ordering the Trump administration to reunite thousands of migrant children with their parents within the next 30 days, the next central question seems to be: Now what? (6/28/18)
The Los Angeles Times: The Trump administration says it’s a ‘myth’ that families that ask for asylum at ports of entry are separated. It happens frequently, records show
The Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy of criminally charging people who cross the border illegally led to thousands of children being separated from their parents. But the practice of separating families appears to have begun accelerating last year, long before zero tolerance was announced in the spring. (7/1/18)
NBC
MSNBC: The stories of children separated from their parents at the Southern Border
Over the past few weeks, a number of reports have surfaced about children being separated from their parents at the border as a result of a new Trump administration policy have surfaced. Katy Tur takes a look at some of these personal stories. (6/11/18)
MSNBC: Sen. slams Trump for ‘abusing’ immigrant kids to influence parents
New reporting reveals Trump wants tent cities for immigrant children separated from parents, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturns an Obama era ruling granting asylum for victims of gangs or domestic violence. (6/12/18)
MSNBC: Surge in children separated at border floods facility for undocumented immigrants
The nearly 1,500 minors living in the shelter sleep five in rooms built for four. (6/14/18)
Also featured in New York Times Magazine(6/13/18), ABC News (6/14/18), The New York Times (6/14/18), Washington Post (6/14/18), The Hill (6/13/18)
MSNBC The Last Word (VIDEO): A look inside Trump immigration facility: ‘effectively, these kids are incarcerated’
Today, MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff was one of a small group of reporters allowed inside the largest facility for immigrant children in the U.S. – the facility Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) was refused entry to earlier this month. (6/13/18)
NBC News: First lady Melania Trump makes statement on family separations as protests grow
The first lady “hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,” according to the statement. (06/17/18)
CNBC: More than 60% of voters oppose Trump administration’s family separation policy, poll says
American voters broadly oppose the Trump administration’s policy to separate families illegally crossing U.S. borders, according to a Quinnipiac poll. (6/18/18)
CNBC: White House denies separating families is ‘policy,’ but insists it is needed ‘to protect children’
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen attended the White House briefing Monday, where she defended the separation of immigrant families on the southern border. (6/18/18)
CNBC: Mark Zuckerberg on separating migrant children: ‘We need to stop this policy right now’
Silicon Valley criticizes the Trump administration for its policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico. (6/19/18)
CNBC: Trump administration offers few details on the fate of over 2,000 children separated from parents
Officials did not know how many of those children had been reunited with their parents. There is currently no uniform standard to determine whether children are too young to separate from their mothers. (6/19/18)
CNBC: ‘Papa! Papa!’ Audio of children stokes rage over Trump’s family separation policy
An audio recording that appears to capture the voices of small Spanish-speaking children crying out for their parents at a U.S. immigration facility took center stage Monday. (6/19/18)
NBC News: Trump admin’s ‘tent cities’ cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents
Separating migrant kids from their parents will cost the administration more than placing them in permanent structures or keeping them with their parents. (6/20/18)
NBC News: Why are so many migrants crossing the U.S. border? It often starts with an escape from violence in Central America
“If my country would be OK … I would not try to cross,” said a mother from Honduras hoping to cross the U.S. border with her 7-year-old son. (6/20/18)
MSNBC (VIDEO): Reporter reveals ‘astonishing’ video of migrant kids brought to NY
Reporter Josh Robin joins Ari Melber to describe the “astonishing” video of you girls seemingly under the age of 10 being transported to New York in “the middle of the night” after the implementation of Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. (6/20/18)
NBC News: Obama asks America to end family separation at border as Trump backs down
“Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families?” the former president wrote. (6/20/18)
CNBC: Here’s where to donate to help migrant children and families at the border
Since the Trump administration implemented a “zero tolerance” policy at the Mexican border in recent weeks, more than 2,300 children have reportedly been separated from their parents while attempting to enter the U.S. (06/20/18)
NBC Los Angeles: Hundreds in San Francisco Protest Family Border Separations
Hundreds of demonstrators protested Tuesday outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in San Francisco, banging drums and chanting, “Stop taking children!” as uproar grew over the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents. (6/20/18)
NBC News: What It’s Like at a Shelter in La Verne Housing Migrant Children
There are four locations in Southern California that house migrant children who are separated from their parents, and NBC4 went to La Verne to get more details on what goes on in these places. (6/26/18)
The New Yorker
The New Yorker: A Closeup of the Government’s New Tent Camp for Migrant Kids
The Department of Health and Human Services, which is responsible for immigrant children in government custody, has said that the Tornillo camp can hold three hundred and sixty kids, and that it may expand. (6/19/18)
The New Yorker: The Office of Refugee Resettlement Is Completely Unprepared for the Thousands of Immigrant Children Now in Its Care
Pamela Florian, a lawyer who works with young children in O.R.R. custody in Arizona, told me that she and her colleagues at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project have seen a dramatic spike in the population of young children at the shelters that they visit. (6/21/18)
The New Yorker (Opinion): The Trump Administration’s Family Values
The policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border was the purest distillation yet of what it means to be governed by a President with no moral center. (6/24/18)
The New Yorker (Audio): Family Values
In “Family Values,” Margaret Talbot reports on how the policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border was the purest distillation yet of what it means to be governed by a President with no moral center. (6/25/18)
The New York Times/The Cut
The Cut: 1,358 Children Have Reportedly Been Ripped From Their Families at the U.S. Border
Since last October, an estimated 1,358 children have been ripped away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border — a cruel practice that has become increasingly common in the past month, as the Trump administration attempts to deter families from crossing. (6/11/18)
The New York Times: A Troubling Prognosis for Migrant Children in Detention: ‘The Earlier They’re Out, the Better’
The longer children remain in institutional settings, the greater their risk of depression, post-traumatic stress and other mental health problems. (6/18/18)
The New York Times: Kirstjen Nielsen Justifies Family Separation by Pointing to Increase in Fraud. But the Data Is Very Limited.
President Trump’s homeland security secretary said the number of immigrants fraudulently posing as families has tripled. That’s true per government data. But those cases make up less than 1 percent of families apprehended at the border. (6/18/18)
The New York Times: Trump Resisting a Growing Wrath for Separating Migrant Families
President Trump and two members of his cabinet mounted an aggressive defense on Monday of his policy of separating children from their parents at the border in response to a growing outcry from members of both parties. (6/18/18)
The New York Times: A Troubling Prognosis for Migrant Children in Detention: ‘The Earlier They’re Out, the Better’
The longer children remain in institutional settings, the greater their risk of depression, post-traumatic stress and other mental health problems. (6/18/18)
The Cut: What to Know About the Detention Centers For Immigrant Children Along The U.S.-Mexico Border
Within the last six weeks, nearly 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their families while crossing the U.S.–Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy. (6/18/18)
The New York Times: Airlines Ask Government Not to Use Their Flights to Carry Children Separated at the Border
American Airlines asked the federal government on Wednesday to stop using its commercial planes for “transporting children who have been separated from their families due to the current immigration policy.” (6/20/18)
Also featured in CNBC (6/20/18)
The New York Times: Where Migrant Children Are Being Held Across the U.S.
The more than 2,300 children who were separated from their parents while crossing the Southwest border in recent weeks have been sent to shelters and other temporary housing across the United States. (6/21/18)
The New York Times: Reuniting and Detaining Migrant Families Pose New Mental Health Risks
The chaotic process of reuniting thousands of migrant children and parents separated by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy poses great psychological risks, both short- and long-term, mental health experts said on Friday. (6/22/18)
The New York Times (Opinion): What My 6-Year-Old Son and I Endured in Family Detention
I came to this country from El Salvador in 2014 seeking safety for myself and my son. Instead, I found myself locked in a family immigration detention center. It’s an experience that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. (6/25/18)
The New York Times (Opinion): There’s a Better, Cheaper Way to Handle Immigration
Most immigrant children apprehended with their families on our southern border are from Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala, three of the most violent countries on earth. Many children knowof, or have witnessed, a family member or friend murdered by the gangs that control their neighborhoods. (6/25/18)
The New York Times: New York Wants to Know: How Many Separated Children Are Here? What’s Next?
The immigration crisis on the southern border became more personal to New Yorkers lastweek, when images emerged of small children in masks and backpacks coming and going from a child welfare agency in East Harlem. (6/25/18)
The Cut: How Will 2,053 Detained Children Be Reunited With Their Parents?
Under the administration’s new policy, children will remain in federal detention centers or possibly government-subsidized shelters (some of which, as Reveal reported last week, have documented histories of abuse) until their parent or guardian has completed their deportation proceedings. How long this will take varies depending on the parents’ case. (6/26/18)
The Cut: Everything to Know About the Zero Tolerance Immigration Protest on June 30
On June 30, organizers throughout the country will host “Families Belong Together” protests in response to the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. (6/26/18)
The New York Times: Trump Administration Cites Difficulties in Meeting Judge’s Timetable for Family Reunification
Trump administration officials said on Wednesday that it would be difficult to comply with the timetable in a federal court order requiring the reunification of migrant children and parents who were separated at the border. (6/27/18)
The New York Times: In Human Trafficking Report, State Dept. Warns Against Separating Children From Parents
The State Department warned in a report on Thursday that separating children from their parents can cause lasting psychological damage that leaves them vulnerable to trafficking, a cautionary tale that comes amid an uproar over a Trump administration immigration policy that has temporarily broken up migrant families as they enter the United States. (6/28/18)
The New York Times: Mother Is Reunited With Her Child After Family Separation Practice Ends
Lidia K. Souza arrived at a Chicago shelter on Thursday afternoon with one ecstatic mission in mind: to tell her 9-year-old son that the two of them — separated at the border nearly a month ago under the Trump administration’s tough new immigration enforcement policy — could leave together at last. (6/28/18)
The New York Times: After 40 Days Apart and a Missed Flight, a Migrant Family Reunites
Ludin’s son and daughter were among the more than 2,000 children detained and separated from their parents by United States border officials since early May, under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. (6/29/18)
The New York Times: Protests Across U.S. Call for End to Migrant Family Separations
Protesters marched into Lafayette Square opposite the White House on Saturday and chanted “families belong together” to counter President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, and were joined in declaring that message by dozens of other rallies from New York to California. (6/30/18)
Also featured in POLITICO (6/30/18), MarketWatch (6/30/18), The Atlantic (6/30/18)
The New York Times: Parents and Children Remain Separated by Miles and Bureaucracy
Yeni González emerged into the warm evening air in Eloy, Ariz., her hair braided by the other women in the detention center. We’re braiding up all your strength, they had told her in Spanish. You can do it. (6/30/18)
The New York Times: Sponsors of Migrant Children Face Steep Transport Fees and Red Tape
Mr. Parada, an immigrant himself who is supporting his wife and three daughters on $3,000 a month, wondered how he could afford to take on another responsibility. Then he learned that he would have to pay $1,800 to fly Anyi and an escort from Houston to Los Angeles. (7/1/18)
NPR
NPR: Trump Administration And Advocates Clash Over What’s Next For Migrant Children
How the children should be cared for and what happens to them is part of a growing clash between the Trump administration and advocates. (06/11/18)
NPR: Faith Leaders Oppose Trump’s Immigration Policy Of Separating Children From Parents
A Trump administration policy of separating children from their parents on the U.S. border has prompted a crescendo of criticism among religious leaders. They span different faiths, denominations and ages. Some of them have also helped the president gain support for his base. (06/16/18)
NPR: Hundreds March To Texas Tent City Holding Detained Immigrant Kids
With chants of “families united” and “free our children now,” hundreds of people marched to the tent city in Tornillo, Texas, where children have been detained for immigration violations. (06/17/18)
NPR: Is Separating Parents And Children Having A Deterrent Effect On Migrants?
Many politicians, church leaders and others have decried the policy as inhumane. But is the policy having the effect the government wants? (6/18/18)
NPR: Pediatric Doctor Says She’s Worried About Trauma Migrant Children Are Experiencing
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Dr. Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, about her visit to a shelter where children who have been separated from parents after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are being housed. (6/18/18)
NPR: Opposing Family Separation, Governors Cancel National Guard Troops On The Border
In opposition to the Trump administration’s practice of separating immigrant families, at least five governors, including two Republicans, say they will not send their National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. (6/19/18)
NPR: What We Know: Family Separation And ‘Zero Tolerance’ At The Border
Since early May, 2,342 children have been separated from their parents after crossing the Southern U.S. border, according to the Department of Homeland Security, as part of a new immigration strategy by the Trump administration that has prompted widespread outcry. Here’s what we know about the policy, its history and its effects. (6/19/18)
NPR: Separating Kids From Their Parents Can Lead To Long-Term Health Problems
“We have kids who will say that was the worst part of their journey,” Osborn says. “They were traveling for weeks and the hardest part was being in this freezing cold room where, you know, they were fed a cold sandwich and had a thin blanket to shiver under.” (6/20/18)
NPR: A Pediatrician Reports Back From A Visit To A Children’s Shelter Near The Border
Dr. Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, visited a shelter in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley where some of these children are held. She spoke with All Things Considered’s Audie Cornish about that visit on Monday. (6/20/18)
NPR: Melania Trump Pressured President Trump To Change Family Separation Policy
There was a private lobbying force behind President Trump’s change of heart on his controversial policy that resulted in thousands of family separations at the southern U.S. border: first lady Melania Trump. (6/20/18)
NPR: Obama Official On Family Separations
President Obama faced strong criticism from immigrant rights activists. Steve Inskeep talks with former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Leon Fresco about immigration and family separations. (6/20/18)
NPR: Trump’s Executive Order On Family Separation: What It Does And Doesn’t Do
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday ending his administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents who were detained as they attempted to enter the U.S. illegally. (6/20/18)
NPR: Update On Immigration And Family Separations
We have the latest on the Trump administration’s policy of separating families of people who illegally cross the border and Republican discussions of overhauling immigration policy. (6/20/18)
NPR: A Latino Nonprofit Is Holding Separated Kids. Is That Care Or Complicity Or Both?
Today, Southwest Key has 26 shelters in Texas, Arizona and California, housing more than 5,100 immigrant minors. That’s about half of the total population in the custody of Health and Human Services. Its federal contracts now tally more than $400 million annually. (6/22/18)
NPR: Trump’s Migrant Family Policy Now Moves To The Courts
The controversy over President Trump’s executive order to end the policy of separating migrant families who cross into the U.S. illegally is shifting to the courts. On Thursday, the Department of Justice asked a federal judge in California to relax certain limitations on how long and under what conditions the government can detain migrant children. (06/22/18)
NPR: Watch: 6-Year-Old Girl, Alone, Breaks Through Immigration Noise With A Phone Number
As the other kids cry inconsolably on an audio recording of migrant children, 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid can be heard pleading for someone to call her aunt — reciting the number in Spanish. (06/22/18)
