Trump Administration Has Separated Dozens of Children From Their Parents for a Second Time, AP Finds
The AP found the government has re-separated dozens of children from parents despite a court settlement, with some families deported or held in detention.
- An Associated Press investigation found the Trump administration has re-separated dozens of migrant children from their families, violating a landmark 2023 legal settlement intended to protect those previously separated.
- Under the 'Ms. L' settlement, families received protections after the 2017 border policy championed by Stephen Miller separated thousands, including 11-year-old Ederson Galicia Alva.
- Attorneys report over 11,800 individuals are covered by protections meant to prevent ongoing harm caused by initial separations, yet immigration agents continue detaining and deporting these families.
- Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, defended the agency's actions, stating enforcing immigration law is "not optional" and accusing "radical NGOs" of seeking to thwart operations.
- As the Trump administration pursues a broader anti-immigration platform, it has vowed to deport more than 1 million people per year, complicating efforts to reunite and support separated families.
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President Donald Trump’s administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP finds
President Donald Trump’s forcible border separations came to an official halt following global outrage, an Associated Press investigation has found that the government has re-separated dozens of children from their families, despite a landmark legal settlement meant to keep them together.
Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time
Eight years after President Trump’s forcible border separations came to an official halt, an investigation has found that the government has re-separated dozens of children from their families, despite a landmark legal settlement meant to keep them together.
In 2018, when he was just 3 years old, Ederson Galicia Alva was taken from his mother's arms at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration's first family separation policy and remained separated…
Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP finds - The Boston Globe
An Associated Press investigation reveals that dozens of children who were separated under the first Trump administration have been re-separated, despite a judge’s order to reunite them.
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