Trump Administration Says the ACLU Should Reunite Separated Families
The DOJ now says the the ACLU should use its “considerable resources” to reunite families.Luis Pablo Hern¡Ndez/EFE via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a week after missing its deadline to reunite all the migrant families it separated at the border, the Trump administration has a new solution:…
Worker Charged With Sexually Molesting Eight Children at Immigrant Shelter, New Records Show
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. It includes graphic details of alleged sexual violence against minors. A youth care worker for Southwest Key has been charged with 11 sex offenses after authorities accused him of molesting at least eight unaccompanied immigrant boys over…
No, Ivanka Trump Did Not Break With Her Dad’s Family Separation Policy
Liu Jie/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Following months of tension and creating frustration both in the White House and the media, Ivanka Trump has signaled she is ready to return to the public stage as first daughter and senior adviser to the president. But her most recent attempt to step back into the…
Trump Set a Record-Low Refugee Cap. Now He May Cut It in Half.
Syrian refugees wait to register at an employment office at a refugee camp in Jordan.Raad Adayleh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, President Donald Trump cut the annual cap on the number of refugees allowed into the United States to the lowest level on record. This year’s 45,000-person limit…
A Judge Just Told the Government to Stop Medicating Immigrant Kids Without Consent
Unaccompanied minors sleep in a holding cell at a US Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville, Texas in 2014. Eric Gay/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to stop medicating detained immigrant children without consent and to release some…
Thanks to Trump’s Family Separations, Democrats Are in the Hot Seat for Taking Private Prison Cash
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a theater outside Miami last month, as a debate between four Democratic candidates for Florida governor approached the two-hour mark, 18-year-old activist ErrDaisha Floyd took the mic and turned the conversation toward a topic close to her heart: private prisons. The…