Immigrant families in US struggling with trauma of separation

Immigrant mother in US

Families who were separated at the US-Mexico border by the Trump administration and then reunited with their children say they are suffering deep emotional wounds and want the US government to pay for mental health treatment to remedy the situation.

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US federal judge reaffirms ruling that DACA must resume

US federal judge reaffirms ruling that DACA must resume

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has reaffirmed his ruling that the Trump administration must resume a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The ruling has no immediate effect because US District Judge John D. Bates in Washington gave the administration 20 days to decide if it would want to […]

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Trump’s remarks about changing European culture draw ire

Anti-Trump protest in London

President Donald Trump’s lament this week that immigration is “changing the culture” of Europe echoed rising anti-immigrant feelings on both sides of the Atlantic, where Europe and the United States are going through a demographic transformation that makes some of the white majority uncomfortable. Historians and advocates immediately denounced Trump’s comments, saying such talk would encourage white nationalists.

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Hundreds deported to Central America after fleeing gangs

Deportees in San Salvador

Thousands of migrants are in this same situation: Having fled from ultraviolent gangs in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, they are caught near the US border and sent back under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy.

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US DOJ says Congress must fix immigration after judge’s order

Donald Trump

The Justice Department says a judge’s order to reunite families separated at the border “makes it even more imperative” that Congress pass immigration legislation that would enable it “to simultaneously enforce the law and keep families together.”

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Trump administration seeks to expand immigrant family detention

Immigration detention facility in Texas

The Trump administration is calling for the expanded use of family detention for immigrant parents and children who are stopped along the US-Mexico border, a move decried by advocates as a cruel and ineffective attempt to deter families from coming to the United States.

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Confusion swirls on border after Trump reversal on families

Darwin Micheal Mejia and mother Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia

Immigration enforcement on the US-Mexico border was plunged deeper into chaos over President Donald Trump’s reversal of a policy separating immigrant children from parents, causing uncertainty for both migrant families and the federal agencies in charge of prosecuting and detaining them.

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