Children Separated

July 09July 09
Hunger, Fear, Desperation: What Came of an Ordinary ICE Raid
- National
It had taken a decade for Brandon Tomas Tomas to establish a life in America: a wife, a steady job and five American-born children. It took 20 seconds for that life to be taken away. An immigration officer waiting for someone else spotted him and asked an innocuous question: “Cómo estás?” How are you? Then […]
June 19June 19
What Happens When Families Get Separated at the Border?
- National
Children are being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. This is what happens once separated.
June 19June 19
Trump: Democrats want immigrants to ‘infest’ U.S.
- National
President Donald Trump accused Democrats of encouraging undocumented immigrants to “infest” the United States Tuesday as he escalated an already pitched defense of his controversial policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the Mexican border. On Twitter and during a speech to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, Trump argued that his actions […]
June 18June 18
McAllen, Texas, immigration processing center is largest in U.S.
- National
Hundreds of young migrants are being kept behind metal wire — the type you’d see on a neighborhood batting cage or a dog kennel — inside the country’s largest immigration processing center. A Department of Homeland Security official called the facility, known as Ursula, the “epicenter” of the Trump administration’s policy that has separated thousands […]