FIVE YEARS LATER: A TIMELINE OF MIGRANT FAMILY SEPARATIONS

Aline Barros for Voice of America reports on the Trump administration family separation policy five years after:  

“In June 2018, family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border made international headlines after audio of scores of sobbing children screaming for their parents emerged from a U.S. federal detention facility.

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Five years later, court documents show, more than 5,000 children were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under a practice known as the zero tolerance policy for unauthorized border crossers. However, it was also used on migrants who presented themselves legally at ports of entry. Parents of 180 children have not yet been found by advocates working with families.”

We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.

— Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen (@SecNielsen) June 17, 2018

KJ