A New Report on Family Separations Shows the Depths of Trump's Negligence
The Administration failed to make even the most basic preparations to keep track of the families separated by its zero-tolerance policy.
By Jonathan Blitzer
How Detained Children Are Treated Around the World
A senior counsel from Human Rights Watch discusses the attitudes of guards at child-detention facilities, and why the U.S. makes it so difficult for advocates to visit detained children.
Children Remain in Dangerous Conditions on the Texas Border
Jonathan Ryan, the C.E.O. and president of RAICES, a Texas-based nonprofit that provides legal counsel to immigrants, discusses the most important problems facing children detained at the border.
How Families Separated at the Border Could Make the Government Pay
Suny Rodríguez sued the government over abuses in family detention, and launched a new legal movement.
By Sarah Stillman
"My Precious Chichi, You'll Soon Be with Me": An Asylum Seeker's Quest to Get Her Toddler Back
Sindy has been separated from her one-year-old daughter for a month. A video obtained by The New Yorker shows the emotional toll of ongoing family separations.
The Uncounted Families Torn Apart at the Border by the Trump Administration
Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report documenting that the Administration had separated far more families than it had previously admitted or could even properly count.
The Five-Year-Old Who Was Detained at the Border and Persuaded to Sign Away Her Rights
Months after the Trump Administration announced that it would halt its practice of separating immigrant families, the practice has quietly continued.
Will Anyone in the Trump Administration Ever Be Held Accountable for the Zero-Tolerance Policy?
To date, no one has been held responsible for the family-separation policy, even after evidence has steadily mounted as to its immense human costs and administrative failures.
The Government Has Decided That Hundreds of Immigrant Parents Are Ineligible to Be Reunited with Their Kids. Who Are They?
Immigration advocates believe the government is finding ways to minimize the reunification work it has left to do by deeming parents unfit to get their children back.
July 2, 2018 Issue
The Trump Administration's Family Values
The policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border was the purest distillation yet of what it means to be governed by a President with no moral center.
By Margaret Talbot