American Medical Association to Department of Health and Human Services: “This proposal marks the rare occasion in which a federal agency seeks to remove civil rights protections.”

There have been over 4,500 claims of abuse of unaccompanied minors while in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Trump administration began its family separation policy earlier than what was originally reported.

Social media responds to a new federal report that seeks to rigidly define gender as determined by biology at birth. 

The government watchdog spotlights widespread disarray among federal agencies tasked with implementing the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy.

The proposed measure comes after ICE arrested dozens of potential child custodians.

Majority of arrests are result of immigration violations, not criminal activity.
 

Class-action suit comes as U.S. official tells lawmakers he warned Trump administration that family separation policy would inflict toll on children. 

A report filed in federal court details hunger, dehydration and forced sleeplessness at child detention centers in the Southwest.

The suspension gives parents who face deportation time to decide if they want their children to remain in United States and pursue asylum.

The plan comes after a judge berates immigration officials for delaying reunification of some 2,500 children with their parents.

The judge ruled that the Trump administration must quicken the pace of family reunifications and meet original deadlines.

The ruling orders the release of more than 1,000 asylum-seekers held at five ICE detention centers. It represents another legal blow to Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy.

Federal judge says government was not prepared to accommodate separated children, calls for families to be reunited within 30 days.

The administration’s change in the Obama-era initiative requires grant recipients to promote an abstinence-only approach that research has found to be ineffective.

“For Trump to claim he is saddened by the family separation policy he created and to offer family detention as a benevolent act reeks of cynicism and hypocrisy.”

Amid public outcry over Trump’s family separation practice, doctors describe despondent young children at three Texas detention centers.

The coalition calls on the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to end “unjustifiable” separation of migrant parents and children at the border.

The announcement comes as federal officials admit they lost track of 1,475 children. Immigration advocates say fingerprint protocol will discourage parents from claiming children.