“About 2,000 children have been separated from their parents over two months.”
“The stock prices of oligopoly private prison companies Geo Group and CoreCivic have been rising ever since the Trump announcement.”
Read more: http://inthesetimes.com/article/21234/private-prison-trump-family-separation-immigration-ice
“Seattle lawmakers have a brand new plan — turn City Hall’s lobby into a homeless shelter.”
“At St. Paul’s Church, detainees’ family members are seeking answers on what they can do next.”
“The president signed the executive order days after he said that the only way to end the division of families was through congressional action because ‘you can’t do it through an executive order.'”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-children-executive-order.html
“ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying ‘Mami’ and ‘Papi’ while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday.”
Read more: https://people.com/human-interest/border-patrol-agent-jokes-migrant-children-separated-parents/
“Children as young as 18 months who arrive with their parents have been forced into government custody while the adults serve brief sentences for the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry before going to immigrant detention centers. In some cases, they are deported without their children.”
“In 2015, I asked President Obama to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (‘family detention centers’) he opened in Dilley & Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core.”
Read more: https://twitter.com/ImmCivilRights/status/1008902662828511232?s=19
“‘This, I think, is a perfect example, of why are borders need to be secured,’ Dimmit County Sheriff Marion Boyd said.”
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/5-dead-suv-chased-border-patrol-crashes-south-213544737.html
“The administration argued that it was just enforcing the law.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/politics/melania-trump-family-separation.html