The Answer to the Family Separation Crisis Is Right There in Front of Us
People who have been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Throughout the ongoing…
Lice, Bedbugs, Chickenpox—Doctors Fear Migrant Children Aren’t Getting Any Health Care
Miguel Juarez Lugo via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As thousands of migrant children have been taken from their parents and sent to facilities across the country, questions are growing about the medical care they…
These Americans Wanted To Show Migrant Kids They Weren’t Alone
They came by the hundreds, rushing to the airport where little kids were being flown in from Texas. Supporters in New York headed to LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday night to tell these kids that even though they were separated from their parents by other Americans, they were not alone—and they were loved. Mother Jones’ Mark…
Judge Orders Trump to Reunite Separated Families Within a Month
The civil rights organization National Action Network protests the Trump administration’s policy of family separation in New York on June 23. G. Ronald Lopez/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to reunite the migrant families it has separated. The preliminary injunction issued on Tuesday evening…
How Are You Reacting to the Supreme Court’s Travel Ban Ruling?
People gather in front of the Supreme Court to protest its ruling on the travel ban. Ting Shen/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court upheld the Trump’s administration’s travel ban Tuesday morning, ruling in a 5-4 decision that the president has the authority to issue the order. About…
Here’s How You Can Help Migrant Kids and Families Right Now
Protestors in Philadelphia, PA. Michael Candelori/Pacific Press/ZUMA Wire It’s one of the biggest fundraisers in Facebook history. In 11 days, more than 525,000 Americans have given over $20 million to help asylum-seekers and migrants at the border. And after President Donald Trump criticized the comedian as “whimpering,” Jimmy Fallon told his 51.2 million Twitter followers he was making a…