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Keeping Families Together (KFT) is a United States immigration policy for certain noncitizen spouses and noncitizen stepchildren of American citizens to request parole in place. It was announced by U.S. President Joe Biden through executive order on 18 June 2024 and implemented on 19 August 2024.
I don’t want to be breaking up families. So the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back,'' Trump said.
U.S. Border Patrol agents search for migrants trying to enter the United States from Mexico undetected, in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on October 24, 2024. - Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
On 19 August 2024, President Biden announced a new program called Keeping Families Together specifically created for legally married spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status in the country. Referring the older law reserved for military personnels since 1952, the law was expanded to civilian spouses of U.S. citizens married before 17 June 2024.
The "zero tolerance" policy [5] introduced by the Trump Administration in spring 2018 was the immediate catalyst for the Families Belong Together mass mobilization in June 2018, as media outlets began reporting on children being held in cages and in detention facilities after having been separated from their parents or guardians after crossing the border.
Family detention is the detention of multiple family members together in an immigration detention context. In the U.S. they are referred to as family detention camps, [1] family detention centers, [2] or family detention facilities. [3] Families crossing the United States border without a visa or other papers demonstrating they are admissible ...
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USCRI traces its history back to 1911 with the founding of the early International Institutes and Travelers’ Aid societies. The early 1900s was a time of incredible growth for the immigrant population of the United States, by 1910, three-quarters of New York City’s population was either an immigrant or a first generation American. This increase in the immigrant population, as well as increa