Trump has refused to rule out reinstating the ‘zero tolerance’ policy that ripped 5,500 weeping children from the arms of parents. More than 1,000 remain separated to this very day The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy in 2018 that resulted in the deliberate separation of 5,500 wailing and traumatized children,...
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The Trump administration’s inhumane and traumatic family separation policy was and remains indefensible – and it’s front and center again as convicted felon Donald Trump pursues his mass deportation agenda. But that cruel program’s unpopularity is probably why Donald Trump Jr. couldn’t defend it and instead resorted to lies...
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On this day in May 2018, then-U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III stepped in front of cameras and assembled press to formally announce that it would be the official policy of the United States to tear children, including nursing infants and toddlers, from the arms of parents seeking...
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Watch New “Ripped Apart” Ad and Access Recorded Version of Yesterday’s Briefing with America’s Voice, Cato Institute, AILA, and Niskanen Center on Trump 2nd Term: HERE Washington, DC — The Biden-Harris campaign today released a new ad targeting voters in key 2024 states tied to today’s six-year anniversary of...
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has yet again called for the return of the Trump administration’s cruel and traumatic family separation policy, which tore more than 5,500 children from their families and resulted in one of the darkest chapters in modern U.S. history. While the Biden administration has reunited...
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One of the former Trump administration officials primarily responsible for the separation of thousands of children from their families has raised resurrecting the brutal, chaotic, and traumatizing “zero tolerance” policy if the indicted former president returns to the White House in 2025. During questioning by Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro...
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The Biden administration this week announced a historic settlement in an ongoing class action lawsuit over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. This was the brutal, chaotic, and traumatizing order, concocted by then-Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and noted white nationalist Stephen Miller, that resulted in the forcible...
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This summer marks five years since a federal judge ordered the reunification of thousands of children who were ripped from their parents under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. But five years later, hundreds remain separated due to that administration’s rapid deportations of parents to Central America, lack of...
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Washington, DC – Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana offered an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act prohibiting the U.S. from making payments to families whose children were kidnapped or stolen by the United States Government, specifically as part of the previous President’s “zero tolerance” policy to deter...
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“We have a responsibility to repair the damage done and to ensure it never happens again” Washington, DC – With family separation back in the news and Republicans trying to whitewash and defend the policy, two powerful columns remind us of the horrors committed by former President Trump and...
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