Using 23andMe to Reunite Families at the Border Comes With Serious Privacy Risks
David Bro/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced an end to administration’s policy of separating families at the border. But the administration hasn’t figured out how to reunite the parents and children that have already been split apart. A day after Trump’s announcement, Rep.…
The Trump Administration Is Looking for Space to Detain 15,000 Immigrant Parents and Children
Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is looking for space to detain 15,000 immigrant parents and children—six times the number of people held in the government’s existing family detention centers. That’s according to a request for information posted Friday afternoon on FedBizOpps.gov, a site used by federal…
The Trump Administration Still Doesn’t Have a Coherent Plan to Reunite the Families It Separated
Children protest the Trump administration’s family separation policy in New York.G. Ronald Lopez/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday morning, for the first time in nearly a month, there were no parents at the McAllen, Texas, courthouse who had been separated from their children. Standing outside the court, Efrén Olivares,…
Trump Is Trying to Find a Legal Way to Lock Up Even More Immigrant Families
Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center in 2014.Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s still widespread uncertainty about how exactly the executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday will change his policy of separating and detaining immigrant families. But one…
Inside the Noisy, Spontaneous, Airport Protest to Greet Separated Children in NYC
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at New York City’s Laguardia Airport late Wednesday night to greet inbound flights from Texas carrying displaced migrant children. They held signs offering words of love and support, and criticism of controversial family separation policies at the US-Mexico border. The scene outside…
Trump’s Immigration Policies Unified People of Many Faiths in a Powerful Protest on Capitol Hill Today
Children in Mylar survival blanketsLenin Nolly/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The president may have signed an executive order intended to end family separation at the border, but immigrant advocates aren’t quieting down. On Thursday morning, dozens of faith leaders, children, and protesters gathered at the Russell Senate office Building to demonstrate…