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Family Separation
Victims of Family Policing Are Leading a Movement to Abolish It
In Colorado and nationwide, a powerful movement against family policing is coalescing.
As Immigration Policy Shifts Rightward, Families Like Mine Are Being Torn Apart
My first thought when I wake up and my last thought every night is how to keep my dad from being deported.
We Can’t Trade a Path to Legalization in Exchange for More Border Militarization
Author Silky Shah says immigration enforcement and the prison-industrial complex are intertwined systems of oppression.
Family Separations and Other Anti-Migrant Horrors Haven’t Stopped Under Biden
The president is considering an executive action that will worsen death and destruction across the immigration system.
ACLU Wins Settlement on Behalf of Migrant Families Separated During Trump Era
Victims of Trump’s “family separation” settled a lawsuit for damages, but cruel U.S. laws still break up families daily.
Judge Orders Trump Officials to Testify on Family Separation Policy
The suit was filed in 2021 by three families from El Salvador and Guatemala whose kids and parents were separated.
White House Tries to Dismiss Lawsuit Filed by Asylum Seeker Separated From Son
The mother behind the lawsuit developed facial paralysis and depression from the trauma of being separated from her son.
Nearly 1,000 Migrant Kids Separated From Families Under Trump Still Not Reunited
While Biden's DHS attempts to reunite families divided under Trump, it continues to separate others through deportation.
Migrants Died on Her Watch Under Trump. Then She Ran a Shelter Under Biden.
The former Border Patrol Chief under Trump ran an emergency shelter in Texas for migrant children in early 2021.
The End of “Roe” Will Lead to More Family Separation and Child Disappearance
“They make money off of family separation,” says sociologist and legal scholar Dorothy Roberts.