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In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the U.S. waited in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, in June 2018.

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Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at the border

6:47pm December 08, 2023

by Jasmine Garsd

The settlement says migrant families cannot be separated at the border for the next eight years, a policy of the Trump administration. Around 1,000 children remain separated from their parents.

A family of five who said they were from Guatemala and a man in a pink shirt from Peru walk through the desert after crossing in the Tucson Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border last month.

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Despite efforts of 3 U.S. administrations, migrant families keep crossing the border

8:17am September 23, 2023

by Joel Rose

Immigration authorities arrested more families in August than in any month on record. U.S. officials have long grappled with discouraging families from coming — and found there are no easy solutions.

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Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla., in Feb. 2019 The American Civil Liberties Union and other attorneys filed a lawsuit on behalf of thousands of immigrant families who were se

Justice Department breaks off talks on compensation for separated families

10:10pm December 16, 2021

The U.S. has left negotiations about paying monetary damages to families who were forcibly separated while seeking to enter at the southern border during the Trump administration.

U.S. Considers Greensboro Site To House Unaccompanied Minors

10:49am May 07, 2021

by Neal Charnoff

Federal officials are considering a former Greensboro private school as a transitional housing site for unaccompanied refugee minors.

President Biden is set to sign a series of executive actions on immigration — steps mean to unwind some of the actions taken by his predecessor.

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Here Are The Immigration Actions President Biden Plans To Sign

11:31am February 02, 2021

by Franco Ordoñez

President Biden has been working to unwind many of the executive actions taken by former President Donald Trump. But the administration has warned that the changes will take time.

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The Trump-era "zero tolerance" immigration policy has resulted in the separation of more than 3,000 children from their families after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Justice Department Rescinds Trump's 'Zero Tolerance' Immigration Policy

1:29pm January 27, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The Trump-era immigration policy resulted in thousands of family separations at the U.S-Mexico border.

Migrant children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. in February 2019.

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New Report: U.S. Lacked Technology To Account For Separated Families

11:44pm November 27, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

The report says the administration planned to separate as many as 26,000 children under the "zero tolerance" policy. More than 5,000 children were separated before it was ended by a judge.

U.N. Expert Clarifies Statistic On U.S. Detention Of Migrant Children

5:49pm November 20, 2019

by Bill Chappell

"I didn't know at that moment that it was [from] 2015," a U.N. rights expert says. "If I would have known that, I would not have mentioned it, because that's some time ago."

Friends, co-workers and family watch as U.S. immigration officials raid the Koch Foods Inc. plant in Morton, Miss., on Wednesday.

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Some 300 Arrested In Mississippi Immigration Raids Have Been Released, Officials Say

8:04am August 09, 2019

by Scott Neuman

In a statement Thursday, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi said detainees were asked whether they had children and were provided with cellphones to arrange for their care.

A Rally For Our Children event to protest the separation of migrant families last year in San Antonio. A federal judge ordered an end to the policy in June 2018.

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ACLU: Administration Is Still Separating Migrant Families Despite Court Order To Stop

7:15pm July 30, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

A year after a federal judge ordered an end to family separations, the ACLU says the practice continues. The government says it is allowed to consider a parent's health or criminal history.