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US To Begin Reuniting Migrant Families Separated By Trump Administration
The United States will begin reuniting migrant children with their parents this week after they were separated by the administration of former president Donald Trump, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday.
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Missing Parents In Focus As Donald Trump, Joe Biden Spar Over Immigration
A testy exchange between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in Thursday's TV debate has renewed focus on the unknown whereabouts of parents of 545 migrant children separated from their families under US border policy.
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Over 900 Migrant Children Taken From Parents By Trump Admin In Last Year
Nearly 1,000 migrant children have been separated from their families at the US-Mexico border in the last year despite a judge's order for President Donald Trump's administration to stop the practice, a top rights group said Tuesday.
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Donald Trump Says Will Not Separate Children From Migrant Families
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will not restart the controversial practice of separating children from families of undocumented migrants -- but then praised the tactic as being effective.
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Migrant Families Separated By US Are Refusing Reunification: Rights Group
Immigrant parents separated from their children by the Trump administration and returned to their homes are refusing to be reunited with their children because their countries are so dangerous, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union told a court on Friday.
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Fox News Booked The Wrong Democrat. She Used It To Slam Trump On Live TV
A Massachusetts state senator who opposes President Donald Trump's immigration policies was mistakenly booked on Fox News, and she used the airtime to criticize Trump's "illegal and inhumane" treatment of migrant families crossing the US-Mexico border.
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Migrants In US Custody Describe Life In 'Ice Boxes' And 'Dog Pounds'
During their detention last month in a US Customs and Border Protection facility in Laredo, Texas, Karen and her two young sons were constantly cold. The family, which fled violence in Honduras, slept on a hard floor in a holding cell without mattresses, she said, their clothes still wet from crossing the Rio Grande.
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Australia Must Stop Separating Migrant Families: UN
The United Nations voiced alarm Tuesday at Australia's decision to "actively and indefinitely separate" the family of a recognised refugee in the country by deporting her husband to Sri Lanka.
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Judge Says US Must Reunite Migrant Families Or Face Penalties
The US government must reunite 63 children under the age of five who were separated by immigration officials after crossing into the United States from Mexico as soon as Tuesday or face penalties, a federal judge said.
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US Using DNA Testing In Effort To Reunite Families It Separated
The US government, under court order to quickly reunify parents and children who were separated after crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico, has expanded its use of DNA tests to establish paternity in immigration matters.
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US Judge Orders List Of Children Separated From Migrant Parents
A California judge on Friday gave the US government until the following night to submit a list of children under five separated from their families at the border, a government official said.
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US Seeks Court Guidance On Deadlines To Reunite Migrant Families
The US government is seeking guidance from a federal court over its efforts to reunite migrant parents and their children before court-imposed deadlines, after the administration separated the families for crossing the US-Mexico border illegally.
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US Using DNA Tests To Reunite Children With Migrant Parents
US officials have resorted to DNA testing on up to 3,000 detained children who remain separated from their migrant parents, a top official said Thursday as President Donald Trump's administration struggles to rapidly reunite families at the center of a border crisis.
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Amid Row Over Border Crisis, Melania Trump Visits Migrant Children
US First Lady Melania Trump was on Thursday greeted by protesters in Phoenix as she made a second visit to meet undocumented child migrants while her husband's administration battles to contain a border crisis.
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US Judge Orders Separated Migrant Families To Be Reunited
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally, and must reunite those families that had been split up in custody.
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US To Begin Reuniting Migrant Families Separated By Trump Administration
The United States will begin reuniting migrant children with their parents this week after they were separated by the administration of former president Donald Trump, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday.
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Missing Parents In Focus As Donald Trump, Joe Biden Spar Over Immigration
A testy exchange between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in Thursday's TV debate has renewed focus on the unknown whereabouts of parents of 545 migrant children separated from their families under US border policy.
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Over 900 Migrant Children Taken From Parents By Trump Admin In Last Year
Nearly 1,000 migrant children have been separated from their families at the US-Mexico border in the last year despite a judge's order for President Donald Trump's administration to stop the practice, a top rights group said Tuesday.
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Donald Trump Says Will Not Separate Children From Migrant Families
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will not restart the controversial practice of separating children from families of undocumented migrants -- but then praised the tactic as being effective.
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Migrant Families Separated By US Are Refusing Reunification: Rights Group
Immigrant parents separated from their children by the Trump administration and returned to their homes are refusing to be reunited with their children because their countries are so dangerous, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union told a court on Friday.
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Fox News Booked The Wrong Democrat. She Used It To Slam Trump On Live TV
A Massachusetts state senator who opposes President Donald Trump's immigration policies was mistakenly booked on Fox News, and she used the airtime to criticize Trump's "illegal and inhumane" treatment of migrant families crossing the US-Mexico border.
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Migrants In US Custody Describe Life In 'Ice Boxes' And 'Dog Pounds'
During their detention last month in a US Customs and Border Protection facility in Laredo, Texas, Karen and her two young sons were constantly cold. The family, which fled violence in Honduras, slept on a hard floor in a holding cell without mattresses, she said, their clothes still wet from crossing the Rio Grande.
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Australia Must Stop Separating Migrant Families: UN
The United Nations voiced alarm Tuesday at Australia's decision to "actively and indefinitely separate" the family of a recognised refugee in the country by deporting her husband to Sri Lanka.
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Judge Says US Must Reunite Migrant Families Or Face Penalties
The US government must reunite 63 children under the age of five who were separated by immigration officials after crossing into the United States from Mexico as soon as Tuesday or face penalties, a federal judge said.
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US Using DNA Testing In Effort To Reunite Families It Separated
The US government, under court order to quickly reunify parents and children who were separated after crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico, has expanded its use of DNA tests to establish paternity in immigration matters.
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US Judge Orders List Of Children Separated From Migrant Parents
A California judge on Friday gave the US government until the following night to submit a list of children under five separated from their families at the border, a government official said.
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US Seeks Court Guidance On Deadlines To Reunite Migrant Families
The US government is seeking guidance from a federal court over its efforts to reunite migrant parents and their children before court-imposed deadlines, after the administration separated the families for crossing the US-Mexico border illegally.
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US Using DNA Tests To Reunite Children With Migrant Parents
US officials have resorted to DNA testing on up to 3,000 detained children who remain separated from their migrant parents, a top official said Thursday as President Donald Trump's administration struggles to rapidly reunite families at the center of a border crisis.
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Amid Row Over Border Crisis, Melania Trump Visits Migrant Children
US First Lady Melania Trump was on Thursday greeted by protesters in Phoenix as she made a second visit to meet undocumented child migrants while her husband's administration battles to contain a border crisis.
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US Judge Orders Separated Migrant Families To Be Reunited
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally, and must reunite those families that had been split up in custody.
