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Under the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy, the Department of Justice began to criminally prosecute all suspected illegal border-crossers for illegal entry, even those who crossed for the first time. [146] [145] Families undergo separations when parents or adult relatives were charged with unlawful entry. [2]
Stop Separating Immigrant Families Press Conference and Rally, Chicago. (June 5, 2018) ProPublica recording of crying children separated from their families. The Trump Administration started a "zero tolerance" policy on May 7, 2018, under which any person crossing the United States border may be charged with a federal misdemeanor. [3]
The U.S. agreed in a settlement last year to an eight-year ban on Trump's family separation policy. A lead lawyer in the case is prepared in case Trump ignores the ban—or tries to nullify it.
Family separations . One of the most controversial practices during Trump’s first term was separating families at the border under the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.
“The families we serve are scared and have a lot of questions about what a new Trump administration would mean for them,” said Anilú Chadwick Soltes, pro bono director for Together & Free, an organization launched in 2018 in response to the zero tolerance policy. The group works to help separated families.
The Trump administration in 2018 may have begun justifying the separation of children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexican border to send undocumented asylum seekers to criminal detention and ...
He imposed a "zero tolerance" policy to require the arrest of anyone caught illegally crossing the border, which resulted in separating children from their families. [10] Tim Cook and 58 other CEOs of major American companies warned of harm from Trump's immigration policy. [11]
Trump's order ended the separation policy, but did not address the families who have already been separated. There's no evidence the Trump administration has reunited any families yet — or even ...