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Family separation – a timeline
Long before the Trump administration implemented its “zero tolerance” immigration enforcement policy in 2018, it was already separating children from their parents as part of a “pilot program” conducted in the El Paso, Texas, area and along other parts of the border.
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Federal Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Traumatized Migrant Families Torn Apart by Trump Administration’s Separation Policy
PHOENIX – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Covington & Burling, and Coppersmith Brockelman filed an amended federal lawsuit today adding four additional migrant families to the filing who were separated from their children by immigration officials at the U.S. border. The lawsuit seeks compensatory damages for the families, who were targeted by a Trump…
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Family separation policy continues two years after Trump administration claims it ended
The confused and panicked children frantically wept for their parents, who had been separated from them at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s family separation policy. “¡Mami!” “¡Papá!” the children from Central America screamed, as if they knew no other words. “I don’t want them to stop my father,” one child said through tears.…
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Weekend Read: SPLC sues Trump administration over family separation policy
The SPLC and its allies have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration policy that has separated and traumatized thousands of migrant families.
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More families seek damages for harm suffered due to Trump administration’s family separations
After seeking asylum from Guatemala at a port of entry in 2017, M.C.L. and his 7-year-old son spent two days in various cells where the temperature was kept extremely cold, with only a thin blanket and a single mattress to share.
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SPLC files claims against Trump administration on behalf of parents and children who suffered harm from family separation policy
Facing gang violence and extortion in Guatemala, J.V.S. and his 5-year-old daughter fled their home to seek refuge in the U.S.
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‘I came with my son and I’m leaving with my son’: Father whose son was taken away at the border tells his story
After a 1,500-mile trek from Honduras, Moises and his 6-year-old son, Carlos, crossed the border together in May.
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