Their deafening silence “turns them into the handmaidens of white supremacy.” By all accounts, the Trump administration is gearing up to officially rescind DACA for Dreamers and to officially restart family separations, again. These are morally depraved policy choices that double as toxic political choices – both for candidate... Continue »
As Big Decisions Loom, Polls Show Strong Support for Dreamers and Strong Opposition to Family Separation Following recent bombshell court decisions, the Trump administration faces two major decisions on what next for DACA and family separations. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in favor of DACA, will the administration reopen... Continue »
Will Trump and Miller Restart Cruel Family Separation Policy?   On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee ruled that the Trump administration must release 124 children who have been held for more than 20 days in family detention facilities. Judge Gee’s ruling cited the threat of COVID-19 and... Continue »
As we’ve been highlighting, the Trump administration has been using the cover of the pandemic to advance a host of nativist policies they have long pursued but had been previously unable to enact. This includes cruel and exploitative policies towards children, such as rushing the deportation of migrant children... Continue »
New Report Underscores Ongoing and Deliberate Cruelty There were at least 5,400 children separated from their parents in the official government tally of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” family separation effort. However, that number misses the family separations under Trump that both pre-dated the official “zero tolerance” timeframe and... Continue »
Wash Post and BuzzFeed Profiles Offer Reminder That Family Separations Continue  There were at least 5,400 children separated from their parents in the official government tally of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” family separation effort. However, that number misses the family separations under Trump that both pre-dated the official... Continue »
Powerful LAX Reunions Thanks to the Tireless Advocacy of Many Family separation remains one of the darkest chapters of the Trump presidency and modern U.S. policymaking. The incredible depths of the Trump administration’s callousness and cruelty remains staggering. As a reminder, a November 2019 DHS Inspector General report found... Continue »
Like Most Americans, Agent Farris Can’t Support Trump Policy A disturbing new Frontline documentary, “Targeting El Paso,” which aired last night nationally on PBS, explores how El Paso has become “front and center in America’s ongoing immigration battle,” including how the family separation pilot program in the El Paso... Continue »
It’s no secret that the Trump administration’s family separation plans were cruel and chaotic, but new details keep emerging that show the incredible depths of their callousness. On the heels of the DHS Inspector General report that showed they were prepared to separate as many as 26,000 children from... Continue »
On a day many families were coming together to begin celebrating Thanksgiving, the DHS Inspector General (OIG) released a final report analyzing the horrific details of the Trump administration’s separation of thousands of families under the Zero Tolerance policy. What became clear in the OIG’s analysis was that the... Continue »