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Reform Efforts Implemented by States to Address Family Separation Due to Incarceration

Posted by Cynthia Hoang-Duong
|Date: March 04, 2023
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Reform Efforts Implemented by States to Address Family Separation Due to Incarceration

By Cynthia Hoang-Duong EASTHAMPTON, MA - Writing for the Prison Policy Initiative, Emma Williams, a consu ...

By Cynthia Hoang-Duong EASTHAMPTON, MA - Writing for the Prison Policy Initiative, Emma Williams, a consultant at the organization, examined the adverse impacts of incarceration on the family unit and ...

March 04, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Moral Imperative to Eliminate the Historic Stain of Family Separation

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 20, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Moral Imperative to Eliminate the Historic Stain of Family Separation

By Lee Gelernt - The Biden administration is inheriting tremendous challenges. But addressing family sepa ...

By Lee Gelernt - The Biden administration is inheriting tremendous challenges. But addressing family separation should be a no-brainer. ...

January 20, 2021
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Trump Administration Proposes Another Form of Family Separation

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|Date: July 15, 2019
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Trump Administration Proposes Another Form of Family Separation

By Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski and Linda Morris The world has watched in horror as migrant families have been f ...

By Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski and Linda Morris The world has watched in horror as migrant families have been forcibly separated, placed into camps, and subjected to the cruel conditions of detention, as pa ...

July 15, 2019
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Family Separation Advocate Named As Acting Secretary of Homeland Security

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: April 14, 2019
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Family Separation Advocate Named As Acting Secretary of Homeland Security

By Brian Tashman With his selection of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan t ...

By Brian Tashman With his selection of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan to serve as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), President Trump has o ...

April 14, 2019
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Kirstjen Nielsen Implemented Trump’s Most Brutal Policies – Now She’s Gone

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|Date: April 09, 2019
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Kirstjen Nielsen Implemented Trump’s Most Brutal Policies – Now She’s Gone

By Brian Tashman Late yesterday, President Trump announced that Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as the Secr ...

By Brian Tashman Late yesterday, President Trump announced that Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Trump said that Kevin McAleenan, the commis ...

April 09, 2019
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The Battle to Stop Family Separation

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 07, 2019
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The Battle to Stop Family Separation

By Lee Gelernt In March 2017, John Kelly, then Secretary of Homeland Security, said in an interview with ...

By Lee Gelernt In March 2017, John Kelly, then Secretary of Homeland Security, said in an interview with CNN that the Trump administration was considering a national policy to separate parents from th ...

January 07, 2019
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Weaponizing the Government’s Refugee Resettlement Agency

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 30, 2018
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Weaponizing the Government’s Refugee Resettlement Agency

By Madhuri Grewal Back in April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, b ...

By Madhuri Grewal Back in April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, both under the Department of Homeland Security, entered into a memorandum of agreement with an o ...

November 30, 2018
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More Than 500 Children Remain Separated from Their Parents

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 26, 2018
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More Than 500 Children Remain Separated from Their Parents

By Amrit Cheng It’s been nearly one month since the federal court's deadline for the Trump administration ...

By Amrit Cheng It’s been nearly one month since the federal court's deadline for the Trump administration to reunite separated families, but hundreds of children are still waiting. In fact, as of 12:0 ...

August 26, 2018
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Border Officials Are Still Defending Family Separations

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|Date: August 18, 2018
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Border Officials Are Still Defending Family Separations

By Chris Rickerd Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, recently gave The Ne ...

By Chris Rickerd Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, recently gave The New York Times an interview. For those expecting some contrition from him for the lasting trauma ...

August 18, 2018
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The Government Failed to Meet the Reunification Deadline

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|Date: July 28, 2018
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The Government Failed to Meet the Reunification Deadline

By Stacy Sullivan The Trump administration claimed in court filings Thursday evening that it had met the ...

By Stacy Sullivan The Trump administration claimed in court filings Thursday evening that it had met the court-ordered July 26 deadline to reunite the children it wrongfully separated from their paren ...

July 28, 2018
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The Rush to Deport Reunited Families

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 27, 2018
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The Rush to Deport Reunited Families

By Amrit Cheng The family separation crisis took a turn yesterday, when the Trump administration revealed ...

By Amrit Cheng The family separation crisis took a turn yesterday, when the Trump administration revealed in a federal court filing its intention to deport families immediately upon reunifying them. T ...

July 27, 2018
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Davis’ Supervisors to Sponsor Resolution on Protecting Children and Keeping Families Together

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 18, 2018
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Davis’ Supervisors to Sponsor Resolution on Protecting Children and Keeping Families Together

On Tuesday, July 24, Don Saylor and Jim Provenza, the two county supervisors who represent Davis, will pu ...

On Tuesday, July 24, Don Saylor and Jim Provenza, the two county supervisors who represent Davis, will put a resolution before their colleagues as a statement of values as well as an action plan to su ...

July 18, 2018
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America Was in the Business of Separating Families Long Before Trump

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 08, 2018
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America Was in the Business of Separating Families Long Before Trump

By Jeffery Robinson Children are crying for their parents while being held in small cages. The attorney g ...

By Jeffery Robinson Children are crying for their parents while being held in small cages. The attorney general tells us the Bible justifies what we see and the White House press secretary backs him u ...

July 08, 2018
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The Family Separation Crisis Exposes America’s Addiction to Incarceration

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 06, 2018
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The Family Separation Crisis Exposes America’s Addiction to Incarceration

By Somil Trivedi The continuing cruelty on display at our southern border has unleashed a righteous, prim ...

By Somil Trivedi The continuing cruelty on display at our southern border has unleashed a righteous, primal scream of revulsion from Americans across the ideological spectrum. The outrage, plus a succ ...

July 06, 2018
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MS-13 Beat Me Up, Threatened to Kill Me, Then the Government Took Away My Kids

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 05, 2018
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MS-13 Beat Me Up, Threatened to Kill Me, Then the Government Took Away My Kids

By Jessika L. I crossed the border into the United States on March 13 in search of safety for myself and ...

By Jessika L. I crossed the border into the United States on March 13 in search of safety for myself and my sons, ages 4 and 10. We had fled for our lives from El Salvador, where MS-13 gang members ha ...

July 05, 2018
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I’m Sorry, 2,342 Times

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 30, 2018
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I’m Sorry, 2,342 Times

By Tracy Fauver Just a few weeks ago, a family was told that their children were being taken to get a bat ...

By Tracy Fauver Just a few weeks ago, a family was told that their children were being taken to get a bath. Those parents have yet to see their children since. Just a few weeks ago, a mother weaned he ...

June 30, 2018
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Despite New Order by President, Nightmare Continues for Immigrant Families

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 25, 2018
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Despite New Order by President, Nightmare Continues for Immigrant Families

By Lorella Praili When President Trump signed his executive order on family separation on Wednesday, he p ...

By Lorella Praili When President Trump signed his executive order on family separation on Wednesday, he proclaimed, “We are keeping families together and this will solve that problem.” But while the o ...

June 25, 2018
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AG Becerra: Forcibly Separating Children from Their Parents Is Inhumane and Unnecessary

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 22, 2018
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AG Becerra: Forcibly Separating Children from Their Parents Is Inhumane and Unnecessary

(From Press Release) - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined New Mexico Attorney Genera ...

(From Press Release) - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined New Mexico Attorney General Hector H. Balderas and 19 attorneys general in demanding the U.S. Department of Justice immed ...

June 22, 2018
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Trump Backtracks on Family Separation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 21, 2018
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Trump Backtracks on Family Separation

On Wednesday, President Trump appeared to cave to political pressure, and signed an executive order to en ...

On Wednesday, President Trump appeared to cave to political pressure, and signed an executive order to end separation of families at the border by detaining parents and children together for an indefi ...

June 21, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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In Denial on the Family Separation Issue

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 15, 2018
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In Denial on the Family Separation Issue

By Jenny Samuels In an interview with the LA Times published early Monday morning, U.S. Customs and Borde ...

By Jenny Samuels In an interview with the LA Times published early Monday morning, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan set out to clarify CBP’s systematic practice of separ ...

June 15, 2018
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