Family Separations Continue In South Texas, Years After They Allegedly Ended

A new report released yesterday by the Texas Civil Rights Project documents that family separation continues to occur along the U.S. border with Mexico. As the report explains, these separations are “the direct result of the Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance policy, which called for the criminal prosecution of 100 percent of people who crossed the southern border without authorization.” Notably, the report reveals a “vast discrepancy between actual separations and what the federal government has reported.”

The report contains a number of important findings. For example, they have tracked the separations families in McAllen, Texas in the below table: