In a Houston Chronicle op-ed, Dr. Reshem Agarwal and Dr. Marsha Griffin of the American Academy of Pediatrics state their strong opposition to the Trump administration family separation policy “due to the detrimental effects of cumulative stress upon a developing brain. Research shows overwhelmingly the deep and lasting harm...
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In a new must-read, Washington Post’s DeNeen Brown connects the forced separation of African American children from their parents during slavery to strip them of their dignity and the forced separation of Native American children from their parents to strip them of their culture to the forced separation of...
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DHS Secretary Nielsen claimed that children are not separated from parents when they seek asylum at a legal port of entry, she lied. In an op-ed on CNN today, Maria G. explains her 18-month-old son’s fear and her anguish when DHS forcibly took her child from her. Maria was...
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A recording of today’s event is available here Following the Trump administration’s press briefing on the “border crisis and the Democrat loopholes that drive it,” legal and policy experts hosted a call to cut through the administration’s balderdash and various mistruths. Kids in Need of Defense has a new must-read...
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It is Trump’s Deliberate Policy and a Deliberate Choice that Harms Children in Order to Deter Asylum-Seekers and Unauthorized Immigrants Amy Harmon of the New York Times reported: President Trump over the weekend falsely blamed Democrats for a ‘horrible law’ separating immigrant children from their parents. In fact, his...
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Nationwide, observers are castigating the Trump administration’s inhumane policy of separating children from their parents. As David Leopold, Partner and Chair of Immigration for Ulmer & Berne and former President of American Immigration Lawyers Association, explained in an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur, “What we have going on at...
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Every day brings more reminders about the centrality and disturbing nature of President Trump’s anti-immigrant worldview. As the Washington Post reports: The night before Trump delivered his first speech to Congress in February 2017, he huddled with Jared Kushner and Miller in the Oval Office to talk immigration …...
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As chief of DHS, Kirstjen Nielsen is tasked with protecting the U.S. homeland. To hear her tell it, that involves keeping terrorists out, separating mothers from their children, and avoiding saying or doing anything that could imperil the legitimacy or longevity of the Trump Administration. Nielsen, yesterday, became the...
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Recent NBC News and Los Angeles Times reports illustrate the inhumane and predictable effects of DHS’s new policy of prosecuting every immigrant who crosses the border without inspection. Parents who come to the United States seeking safety for their children are instead being separated and prosecuted criminally, with no...
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Contrary to DHS Secretary Nielsen’s Statements, This is NOT What Happens “Every Day” With Parents Facing Criminal Charges According to the Washington Post, “The head of the Department of Homeland Security defended the Trump administration’s practice of separating children from parents when the family is being prosecuted for...
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