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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. Policy to deter illegal immigration, 2017–2018 Ursula detention facility in McAllen, Texas, dated June 2018 Juveniles, showing sleeping mats and thermal blankets on floor This article is part of a series about Donald Trump Business and personal Business career The Trump Organization ...
Protests against the Trump administration family separation policy are a reaction to the Trump administration policy of separating children from their parents or guardians who crossed the U.S. border either illegally or to request asylum, jailing the adults and locating the minors at separate facilities under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Albence played an active role in the Trump administration family separation policy, working to keep separated parents and children apart, in some cases coming up with novel ideas to block reunification, even after the parent had passed through the justice system. [3]
Edward Scott Lloyd [1] (born August 22, 1979) [2] [3] is an American lawyer who served as the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). He ran the ORR during the period when it oversaw the detention of children who were separated from their families under the Trump Administration's family separation policy.
In July 2019, Homan testified before the House Oversight Committee regarding the Trump administration's family separation policy. [23] He declared that a third of all women who cross the border get raped, and that turning a blind eye to the border would result in an increase of child mortality.
The directive, issued under Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other Trump Justice Department officials as part of the Trump administration family separation policy, led to the separation of thousands of small children from their parents, many of whom were seeking asylum in the United States after fleeing violence in Central America. [86]
Responding to widespread criticism of family separation, President Trump issued an executive order titled "Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation." [ 238 ] The Order instructed the Department of Homeland Security to maintain custody of parents and children jointly, "to the extent permitted by law and subject to the ...
By June 2018, the Flores Agreement received increased public attention when Trump, his administration, and supporters cited the FSA and Democratic recalcitrance as justification for the Trump administration family separation policy, in which all adults detained at the U.S.–Mexico border were prosecuted and sent to federal jails while children ...