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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.
A group of undocumented immigrants and their families is seeking to intervene in federal court to defend a new Biden administration program from a lawsuit by 16 Republican-led states.
Keeping Families Together would have allowed an estimated 500,000 noncitizen spouses and 50,000 noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens to remain together with their families in the United States ...
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.
The order by District Court Judge J. Campbell Barker effectively brings to a halt a large immigration program that opened just last week to an estimated half a million immigrants living in the U.S ...
In 2014 the Obama administration opened new family detention centers in the United States. At the time there was only one government-operated facility, which was located York County, Pennsylvania. [10] In 2015, intact families were not regularly separated at the United States border. [11]
President-elect Donald Trump’s new “border czar” Tom Homan has a message for New York City and other ... then shut down the immigration court. Take the border patrol off the border if there ...
Keeping Families Together was launched in 2007 with a $700,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to CSH. [4] RWJF had been tracking several high-profile child welfare cases in the news, which revealed that children had died from abuse and neglect while living with families who experienced homelessness, behavioral health problems and involvement in the child welfare system.