Besides separation, trauma is triggered by other factors: limited phone calls, crowded cells, lack of information about family whereabouts.
Immigration
Judge approves plan to reunite 366 children with deported parents, but questions linger
A judge has OK’d a plan to reunite 366 children with their deported parents. But questions linger about whether reunifications will occur in the U.S.
Government still searching for parents of 26 migrant children
Nearly 1,600 children have been reunited with their parents, the government reports. The parents of another 559 aren’t eligible for reunification.
Troubled Texas facility still holds 28 immigrant children as deadline nears, attorney says
More than a week after a judge ordered that immigrant children staying at the facility should be moved, more than two dozen children are still there.
Judge orders government to release immigrant kids from troubled shelter
A federal judge rules that the government should remove immigrant kids from a troubled Texas facility and stop drugging them without consent.
Immigration lawyers, judges vexed by new Trump policies
Advocates see the events of recent months as integral to President Donald Trump’s broader plans to restrict immigration.
Study finds high-skilled immigrants benefit economy as Trump moves to make lives more difficult
The more high-skilled immigrants a firm has, the more innovative it is likely to be, according to new research.
Contractor clears out Phoenix office where it held immigrant children
A government contractor cleared out a Phoenix office where it has detained immigrant children, some overnight, after a Reveal investigation.
Exclusive: Immigrant kids held in second Phoenix office seen bathing in sinks
Reveal found a second Phoenix office building where MVM Inc. detained immigrant children. An insurance executive says they washed in bathroom sinks.
First family reunited in detention center may be separated again
A 9-year-old Brazilian migrant child reunited this week with his father at a Pennsylvania immigration detention center could once again be separated.