Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that several thousand children who were separated from their parents at the U.S. border remain in federal custody. Last week a federal judge issued an order to the Trump Administration saying they had just two weeks to reunite the separated families. With that deadline looming…
With the deadline fast approaching to reunite separated children with their parents, the federal government won’t say how many separated children they still have in custody, according to a new report from TIME Magazine. Two weeks ago President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending his administration’s policy of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border….
The New York Times has reported that immigrants into the United States who want to be reunited with separated family members often must pay high fees and exorbitant travel costs, as well as overcome bureaucratic hurdles in order to be reunited. The fees arise after family members have been located and they attempt to obtain…
Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the Senate Minority Leader, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, House Minority Leader, co-authored a letter that they sent to President Trump on Thursday demanding that he immediately take steps to reunite the families whose children were taken from them at the U.S.-Mexico border under the president’s zero tolerance…
The Texas Civil Rights Project is a legal aid group that represents over 300 parents whose children have been taken from them at the U.S. border. So far, they have been able to track down only two of their clients’ missing children. “Either the government wasn’t thinking at all about how they were going to…
