Deportation of 6-Year-Old Puts Spotlight on ICE’s Detention of Families

Immigration authorities have detained about 50 children younger than 18 in the New York City area since January. At least 38 of them have been deported.

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Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Standards of Care for Detained Migrant Children

Court-mandated oversight will remain in place for migrant children in custody. Lawyers have reported poor medical care and lack of sunlight and showers.

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President Trump Revives First-Term Policy of Separating Migrant Families

President Trump has revived his first-term policy of separating migrant children from their parents, and the more targeted version is happening far from the border.

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Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families

The practice appears to be a more targeted version of the mass separation of migrant children from their parents from President Trump’s first term, which caused a global outcry.

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Checks on Migrant Children by Homeland Security Agents Stir Fear

Agents are showing up unannounced to interview minors in what the government calls “wellness checks.” Critics see the visits as part of the immigration crackdown.

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Why a Venezuelan Mother and Her Children Fled the US

Yessica Rojas, a Venezuelan mother, risked everything to seek a better future for her two children in the United States. This spring, they left Missouri because she feared losing them.

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Trump Administration Revives Detention of Immigrant Families

Two facilities in South Texas are being readied for undocumented parents and their children. One site began receiving them earlier this month.

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Trump Administration Cuts Ties With Migrant Shelter Provider After Dropping Child Abuse Lawsuit

The Justice Department dropped a Biden-era lawsuit against Southwest Key, the largest provider of housing for unaccompanied minors, after the Health and Human Services Department said it stopped sending children to those shelters.

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Trump Has Promised Another Immigration Crackdown. Here’s a Primer on His First.

The hard-line policies in his first term were a significant shift that reframed the national conversation on immigration and helped return him to the White House.

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How Trump’s Border Czar Thomas Homan Found MAGA

Thomas Homan once defended Obama-era policies and health care for transgender immigrants. Now he’s eyeing hotlines to report undocumented neighbors and arrests of local officials who get in the way.

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