Court of Appeals Ruling Guts Flawed Remain in Mexico Policy
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Read MoreIn the last decade, children and young families have become the face of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. Tens of thousands of children have made the life-threatening journey from their countries alone; families have often come with small children—all to escape the violence from which they have no protection. No one wants these children to […]
Read MoreIn June of 2018, at the height of the family-separation crisis at the southern border, Emily Kephart, an advocate at Kids in Need of Defense, was spending her days trying to locate children in government custody. Under a new policy called “zero tolerance,” the Department of Homeland Security was transferring parents apprehended at the border for criminal […]
Read MoreNearly 70,000 migrant children have been held in government custody this year and are being held for significantly longer periods of time. KIND notes that the Administration’s policy of deterrence not only is ineffective, but that it is causing irreparable harm to thousands of children.
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