New regulations would affect the nearly 13,000 children currently in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Category: Kids on the Line
An ongoing investigation into family separation and the treatment of migrant children
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Separated and kept in an office: How a 7-year-old remembers zero tolerance
Wilson should have been taken to a licensed shelter, with beds and showers. Instead, he was taken to an unfurnished, unlicensed office building.
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Shiloh had a history of death and drugging. Texas schools keep sending students there
At least seven districts have sent students with special needs to Shiloh Treatment Center in recent years.
Immigrant children still being drugged at shelter despite judge’s order, lawyers say
Attorneys for immigrant children held at a troubled Texas shelter say kids continue to be forcibly drugged there despite a judge’s order.
Posted inInequality, Kids on the Line
ICE gave $185 million deal to defense contractor under investigation for housing kids in office
Nine days before getting the new contract, defense contractor MVM was found to have housed migrant children in a vacant office building.
Trump administration agreed to new asylum hearings, but families face another month in detention
Separated families won a second chance to seek asylum under an agreement in federal court, but lawyers say the government has backed off its pledge.
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When they took my son
We examine the stories of two families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border and how what happened to them matches up with what the government said was supposed to happen.
Posted inInequality, Kids on the Line
Lawmaker on center for immigrant kids: ‘We cannot allow this house of horrors to continue to operate’
Twenty-five children continue to be held at Shiloh Treatment Center, which has documented cases of child deaths and serial abuse.
A judge ordered immigrant children removed from troubled Texas facility. They’re still there.
Nearly a month ago, a judge ordered immigrant children removed from a troubled Texas facility and told the government to stop drugging them without consent. That hasn’t happened.
Federal government files new regulations that will affect how migrant families are treated
Even as it fails to reunify hundreds of families, the federal government says the court oversight mandated in a landmark case is no longer needed.