An internal email makes clear that expanding family detention — done in the name of keeping families together — is at the heart of the Trump agenda.
Hundreds of protesters descended on a Border Patrol facility, yelling to the children inside, “Los vemos! Los queremos!” “We see you! We love you!”
Sanctuary was an alternative to an impossible choice: dash her American son’s dreams of working for NASA, or allow herself to be deported without him.
It’s been nearly a month since the families were separated. Only one of the boys has been able to speak to his father.
Hoyer told CNN it was “not appropriate” for members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus protesting family separation to yell at President Donald Trump.
“I cried some, but I tried to be strong,” the little boy said when he was reunited with his mother after 38 days of separation.
Voices
Donald Trump's family separation policies on the southern border are horrific — and they fit right into American history.
The U.S. has created a bureaucratic nightmare for families whose children have been taken away from them.
Some members of the Christian right expressed reservations about Donald Trump's hard-line policies, but not those closest to the administration.
The practice of turning away asylum-seekers at the border has suddenly become routine, in defiance of U.S. and international law.
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