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Family Separation
October 2, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
J.D. Vance’s Most Horrific Debate Answer Was What He Didn’t Say
J.D. Vance didn’t rule out bringing back one of Donald Trump’s cruelest immigration policies.
January 17, 2024
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
Republican Lawmaker Says It’s Time to Bring Back Family Separation
Representative Anna Paulina Luna is saying the quiet part out loud.
June 29, 2021
Felipe De La Hoz
The Immigrant Families Separated by Trump Are Stuck in Legal Limbo Under Biden
The White House is discovering that the path to undoing the former president’s most despised policy is full of tricks and traps.
December 18, 2020
Felipe De La Hoz
Trump’s Most Vicious Cultists Aren’t Done With America
They gleefully enabled a corrupt president for years. How will they satisfy their destructive appetites in the years to come?
October 13, 2020
Ankush Khardori
No One’s Hands Are Clean at the Justice Department
Why officials at every level are implicated in the department’s worst abuses of the Trump era, starting with its family separation policy
June 15, 2020
Gaby Del Valle
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Jack Herrera
The Pandemic-Era Rebrand of Family Separation
Mothers in immigrant detention said they were asked to separate from their children. ICE claimed it was an “option.”
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