Family Separations
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US Government Responsible For Immigrant Families' Reunification: Court
The federal judge who ordered the reunification of families separated at the southern US border said Friday it was the government's responsibility to locate parents deported without their children.
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Media Not The Enemy, Family Separation "A Low Point", Says Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump distanced herself Thursday from some of her father's most controversial policies and strident rhetoric, saying she is "vehemently against" family separations and that journalists are not the enemy.
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Migrants In US Custody Describe Life In 'Ice Boxes' And 'Dog Pounds'
During their detention last month in a US Customs and Border Protection facility in Laredo, Texas, Karen and her two young sons were constantly cold. The family, which fled violence in Honduras, slept on a hard floor in a holding cell without mattresses, she said, their clothes still wet from crossing the Rio Grande.
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US Immigration Crisis: Father, 4-Year-Old Son Reunited After 6 Weeks
With tears and smiles, Salvadoran asylum seeker Walter Armando Jimenez Melendez reunited with his 4-year-old son Jeremy on Tuesday after six weeks of anguished separation.
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US Seeks Court Guidance On Deadlines To Reunite Migrant Families
The US government is seeking guidance from a federal court over its efforts to reunite migrant parents and their children before court-imposed deadlines, after the administration separated the families for crossing the US-Mexico border illegally.
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Amid Row Over Border Crisis, Melania Trump Visits Migrant Children
US First Lady Melania Trump was on Thursday greeted by protesters in Phoenix as she made a second visit to meet undocumented child migrants while her husband's administration battles to contain a border crisis.
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"When Will I See You, Mama?": Split Leads To Heartache
The father and the daughter were separated by Arizona ICE agents. Janet, was sent to Michigan and the father was transferred to a federal detention center in Atlanta, where he remains six weeks later.
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US Judge Orders Separated Migrant Families To Be Reunited
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally, and must reunite those families that had been split up in custody.
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"Leave My Husband Alone": US Official Confronted Over Family Separations
Protesters confronted Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday over migrant family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border, a sign that outrage over the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policy is not abating.
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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Ending Family Separations At Border
President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Wednesday, signing an executive order ending family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border after a public uproar over the impact of his administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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Donald Trump To Sign Executive Order To Avoid Family Separations
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to keep immigrant families together, reversing his insistence that only Congress could end his policy of separating children from parents who are caught illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico.
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US Lawmakers To Vote On Bill To End Migrant Family Separations
US lawmakers will vote Thursday on a bill that would end the controversial practice of separating migrant children from parents caught entering the country without papers, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday.
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Ivanka Urged Donald Trump To Address Separation Of Migrant Families: Report
US President Donald Trump's daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump urged her father to end family separations on the US-Mexico border, according to reports.
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Family Separation Can Be 'Morally Necessary', Says Pope Francis
Pope Francis said today that it may be "morally necessary" for some families to split up, marking a change of tone in the Catholic Church's attitude to troubled marriages.
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US Government Responsible For Immigrant Families' Reunification: Court
The federal judge who ordered the reunification of families separated at the southern US border said Friday it was the government's responsibility to locate parents deported without their children.
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Media Not The Enemy, Family Separation "A Low Point", Says Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump distanced herself Thursday from some of her father's most controversial policies and strident rhetoric, saying she is "vehemently against" family separations and that journalists are not the enemy.
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Migrants In US Custody Describe Life In 'Ice Boxes' And 'Dog Pounds'
During their detention last month in a US Customs and Border Protection facility in Laredo, Texas, Karen and her two young sons were constantly cold. The family, which fled violence in Honduras, slept on a hard floor in a holding cell without mattresses, she said, their clothes still wet from crossing the Rio Grande.
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US Immigration Crisis: Father, 4-Year-Old Son Reunited After 6 Weeks
With tears and smiles, Salvadoran asylum seeker Walter Armando Jimenez Melendez reunited with his 4-year-old son Jeremy on Tuesday after six weeks of anguished separation.
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US Seeks Court Guidance On Deadlines To Reunite Migrant Families
The US government is seeking guidance from a federal court over its efforts to reunite migrant parents and their children before court-imposed deadlines, after the administration separated the families for crossing the US-Mexico border illegally.
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Amid Row Over Border Crisis, Melania Trump Visits Migrant Children
US First Lady Melania Trump was on Thursday greeted by protesters in Phoenix as she made a second visit to meet undocumented child migrants while her husband's administration battles to contain a border crisis.
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"When Will I See You, Mama?": Split Leads To Heartache
The father and the daughter were separated by Arizona ICE agents. Janet, was sent to Michigan and the father was transferred to a federal detention center in Atlanta, where he remains six weeks later.
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US Judge Orders Separated Migrant Families To Be Reunited
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally, and must reunite those families that had been split up in custody.
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"Leave My Husband Alone": US Official Confronted Over Family Separations
Protesters confronted Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday over migrant family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border, a sign that outrage over the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policy is not abating.
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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Ending Family Separations At Border
President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Wednesday, signing an executive order ending family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border after a public uproar over the impact of his administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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Donald Trump To Sign Executive Order To Avoid Family Separations
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to keep immigrant families together, reversing his insistence that only Congress could end his policy of separating children from parents who are caught illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico.
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US Lawmakers To Vote On Bill To End Migrant Family Separations
US lawmakers will vote Thursday on a bill that would end the controversial practice of separating migrant children from parents caught entering the country without papers, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday.
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Ivanka Urged Donald Trump To Address Separation Of Migrant Families: Report
US President Donald Trump's daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump urged her father to end family separations on the US-Mexico border, according to reports.
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Family Separation Can Be 'Morally Necessary', Says Pope Francis
Pope Francis said today that it may be "morally necessary" for some families to split up, marking a change of tone in the Catholic Church's attitude to troubled marriages.
