USA Today is out with a scathing editorial condemning the Trump administration’s cruelty and incompetence with respect to the separation of families, stating that with respect to their speedy reunification, failure is not an option. As the editorial notes: It turns out that the number of separated children is... Continue »
It’s increasingly clear that the Trump administration is unable and unwilling to meet a Tuesday deadline, imposed by a federal judge appointed by George W. Bush, to reunite 102 children younger than 5 years old who remain separated from their parents. Not long ago, Trump administration officials reassured Congress... Continue »
ICE is a relatively new government agency and has only been operating since 2003. In its less than two decades of existence, ICE has developed a long record of abuses — yet the Trump Administration has encouraged, facilitated, and “unshackled” the agency. Under his presidency, ICE has increasingly known... Continue »
Over the past week, the Trump administration continued its efforts to dismantle immigration and refugee programs that reflect long-held American values. The policy changes, summarized below, include a draft regulation that makes it more difficult for those fleeing violence and persecution to apply for refugee status; an overhaul of... Continue »
In an op-ed published in the New York Times, Efren Olivares, civil rights attorney and the Racial & Economic Justice Program director at the Texas Civil Rights Project, spoke of the work he and his colleagues have done in trying to reunite hundreds of the thousands of children who... Continue »
Azar Blames Courts and Congress for Trump Actions on Child Separation Yesterday encapsulated how the Trump administration is more concerned about shifting blame than solving the family separation crisis of their own creation. During a press briefing with reporters, HHS Secretary Alex Azar embodied and underscored the mixture of... Continue »
This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of Americans turned out in both big cities and small towns to protest the Trump administration’s cruel family separation policy (see detailed recap and photos of this weekend’s activities here). Yet the Trump administration is dragging their feet and refusing to abide by... Continue »
The latest episode of our podcast, “A is for America”, is set in Brownsville, Texas, where advocates led by the ACLU held a mass rally this week outside of a courthouse where migrants are being prosecuted. (Interviews start at 7:00.) So much continued to happen in immigration news this... Continue »
“Plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum” In a must-read exclusive, Vox’s Dara Lind reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has drafted a regulation that would bar most of those fleeing horrific violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from being recognized as refugees in the... Continue »
Yesterday, a federal judge in Chicago, Manish Shah, ruled that the Trump administration should stop making excuses and start reunifying families – in the case at hand, the mother Lydia Souza and her 9-year old son Diego. As the New York Times wrote: Noting in his ruling that there... Continue »