Immigration

An 18-month-old girl was sent to an ICE detention center after Trump began implementing his cruel zero-tolerance immigration policy. There, she picked up a respiratory infection, and within six weeks she was dead.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) took the Trump administration to task.

"Every one of these instances is about a family that has a citizen and a noncitizen, and probably children...Here we have a trap laid out to separate them."

"The Trump administration's narrative is not based in fact but is simply part of a much broader attempt to penalize and disparage immigrants."

Amid President Donald Trump's escalating lies, here are a few realities...

The Trump administration now admits that at least one child it is holding in custody as part of its “zero tolerance” policy at the U.S.-Mexico border might be an American citizen.
The latest development highlights just how out of control Trump’s family separation policy that he unilaterally imposed has become.
The ACLU has sued the federal government o

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During the ongoing family-separation controversy, President Donald Trump and others have made false or misleading statements on several immigration issues.

Some may say the president's quote is nonsensical. I say it’s an ominously accurate testament to how the Trump administration has decided to deal with the question of undocumented people.

ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.”