Tag: immigration

What you need to know about the Democratic Socialists of America, as Trump Administration misses family reunification deadline, children protest "horrific" immigration policy, and more.

The government admits at least 900 children have yet to be reunited, and some 463 separated parents have been deported – even as their children remain in U.S. detention centers.

The depth and breadth of outrage against the brutal treatment of migrant and refugee families by ICE has even extended into the agency itself.

This comes as advocates say some migrant children have been released from federally contracted shelters with scabies and lice.

Denouncing the resolution as a political stunt by the Republican majority, 133 House Democrats opted to vote "present" instead of yes or no.

The trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.

What we’re witnessing at our border is one part of a war against all children – whether by cuts to schools, child nutrition, health care, safe air and water, or family-supporting jobs.

Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya has spent the three months since Liah was taken into U.S. custody trying to get her daughter released from foster care for unaccompanied immigrant children.

It is not listed among shelters operating through the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement or on the state child care licensing website.

“It was never intended to be a foster care system with more than 10,000 children in custody at an immediate cost to the federal taxpayer of over $1 billion dollars per year.”