BY MARTIN VASSOLO July 10, 2018 A pair of 4-year-old children separated from their fathers at the U.S.-Mexico border and taken to a South Florida migrant shelter were returned to their parents Tuesday, a law firm representing the families told the Miami Herald. The kids, a boy and girl from Honduras and Guatemala, were the first immigrant children in Florida …
MEET THE WOMEN DEFENDING MIGRANT CHILDREN ON OUR BORDER – INSTYLE
ROMY OLTUSKI July 9, 2018 When Michelle Brané visited the immigration processing center known as Ursula in McAllen, Texas, to monitor a group of migrant children being held there, she asked to see a 4-year-old girl on her list. “I can’t find her,” an agent told her plainly. Brané, who works with the Women’s Refugee Commission to make sure facilities …
ZERO TOLERANCE – THE ORLANDO TIMES
By Jalessa Castillo Due to the threat of drug cartels, extreme poverty, gang violence, and other safety concerns, tens of thousands of parents and children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in recent years. Recently, former policies, the Trump administration, and other factors have led to a catastrophe that is the cause of over 2,300 children being separated from their …
WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH DETAINED MIGRANT CHILDREN? A PATCHWORK SYSTEM MAKES IT HARD TO FIND OUT. – TAMPA BAY TIMES
By Alex Leary and Steve Bousquet June 29, 2018 Florida’s key role in the national detention system wasn’t publicly known until news broke in mid-June that more than 1,000 children were housed in a dorm-like former job training center in Homestead, including at least 70 kids who were taken from their families. No one noticed. Five months ago, the federal government sent an …
FLORIDA ATTORNEYS LEND SUPPORT TO SEPARATED IMMIGRANT FAMILIES – DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW
By Catherine Wilson June 27, 2018 Several Florida law firms have pledged to help reunify separated immigrant families and volunteered to represent asylum seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border. Akerman chairman and CEO David I. Spector and Bilzin Sumberg chairman John Sumberg are among the law firm leaders who joined a coalition effort by dozens of law firms nationally offering pro bono representation …
WE MUST NOT FORGET DETAINED MIGRANT CHILDREN – THE NEW YORKER
By Edwidge Danticat June 26, 2018 One of my earliest childhood memories is of being torn away from my mother. I was four years old and she was leaving Haiti for the United States to join my father, who’d emigrated two years earlier, to escape both a dictatorship and poverty. My mother was entrusting my younger brother and me to the care …
ROUNDTABLE TAKES ON THE WEEK’S TOP NEWS STORIES – ABC 10
This Week in South Florida June 24, 2018 Watch here.
SEPARATED IMMIGRANT CHILDREN ARE ALL OVER THE U.S. NOW, FAR FROM PARENTS WHO DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE – THE WASHINGTON POST
By Maria Sacchetti, Kevin Sieff and Marc Fisher June 24, 2018 Their mothers are missing, their fathers far away. They get pizza, maybe cold cuts. They are exhausted; they cannot sleep. There are other children around, but they had never seen those kids before, and those kids are crying or screaming or rocking or spreading the feeling that everything is not okay. The children …
TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER CREATES A NEW BORDER CRISIS – THE NEW YORKER
On Wednesday afternoon, President Trump traded one border crisis for another: instead of separating immigrant children from their parents, it appears that the U.S. government will now detain moms and dads indefinitely alongside their sons and daughters. New questions will now be asked. Can Trump really get the courts to dismantle the Flores agreement, a legal settlement from 1997 which enshrined …
¿QUÉ SIGNIFICA LA ORDEN EJECUTIVA DEL PRESIDENTE TRUMP? – UNIVISION
June 23, 2018 Una experta en inmigración analizó la situación de las separaciones de familias y las posibles consecuencias de la orden ejecutiva. Vea la entrevista aquí.