While the Trump administration woefully drags its feet on reuniting migrant children separated from their parents at the border, a federal judge has ordered officials to work with the American Civil Liberties Union to potentially return to the U.S. some of the deported parents to continue pursuing their asylum cases.
The Trump administration was ordered by a federal court back in June to reunite every one of the 2,654-plus migrant children it unnecessarily separated from their families by July 26. Unsurprisingly, it has not done that—and, in fact, the number of separated children has recently gone up.
The Trump administration’s immigration rhetoric is often framed as a pro-law and order campaign against undocumented immigration rather than a set of racist, inhumane policies against people of color. But that facade is laughable, as the administration proves every single day. The latest outrage: the Immigration and…
On Thursday, a federal judge in Washington D.C. reportedly halted a woman’s deportation after finding out that the Trump administration was attempting to deport her and her daughter while the appeal was ongoing. The judge also made clear that he was pissed that he was having to do this in the first place.
The Department of Justice informed the American Civil Liberties Union in a court filing on Thursday that it, not the government, should take responsibility for finding parents who were separated from their children at the border and then deported. Uhhhhh.
More than 700 undocumented children over the age of five remain separated from their parents even after the latest court-ordered deadline for the Trump administration to reunify families has come and gone.
The Trump administration said in a Thursday court filing that it has so far only reunited 364 of the more than 2,500 migrant children between the ages of 5 and 17 who have been separated from their families at the border under its “zero tolerance” policy. That news comes with less than a week left until their…
A federal judge ruled on Monday that all deportations of recently reunited families must be halted. But shouldn’t the Trump administration pay some price for separating them in the first place?
Less than half of the migrant children under five years old who have been separated from their families at the border will be reunited in time for a court-ordered deadline on Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union claimed on Sunday night.
A government lawyer may need more time to dog-sit over the weekend, but the Trump administration won’t be getting a blanket extension on the deadlines a judge set for the reunification of migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Some might say that calling out Democrats on immigration is not productive at this moment, when the Trump administration is falsely claiming that they are responsible for the laws that permit families being torn apart. (In fact, the family separation policy was implemented entirely by the Trump administration.)
As Donald Trump’s administration ramps up its inhumane policy of separating migrant parents from their children at the border, a federal judge on Wednesday refused the government’s request to dismiss an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging this very practice. This means the suit, which seeks to stop the…
The ACLU of North Carolina, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice have slapped the state of North Carolina with a federal lawsuit over the state’s practice of suspending drivers’ licenses over unpaid tickets.
The ACLU published a report on Wednesday alleging a series of horrific instances of child abuse and neglect by Customs and Border Protection officials culled from five years of official Department of Homeland Security documents—all written during the Obama administration.
A U.S. District Court judge in Virginia has ruled that transgender teen Gavin Grimm has a valid claim to sex discrimination under both Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause, after his former school board implemented a policy to prevent him from using the boys’ restroom at his school.
Amazon is all but gifting the use of its powerful facial recognition program to help power law enforcement agencies’ surveillance programs across the country, according to documents obtained by civil rights groups and reported by the Washington Post on Tuesday.
The Southern California city of Los Alamitos desperately needs your GoFundMe donations to fund its crusade against sanctuary laws.
One tool that Immigrations and Custom Enforcement agents use against immigrants is a lack of knowledge about what legal rights they do and do not have.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class–action lawsuit against the U.S. government for separating immigrant parents from their children while the families seek asylum in the country.
When the Trump administration rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last year, it set an arbitrary deadline of March 5, 2018 for Congress to deliver a solution to replace DACA, which shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
