Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US, using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law, the Guardian has learned…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/19/stephen-miller-trump-migrant-children

 

Trump officials sending undocumented children to Texas sparks fears of mass deportation

The processing to Texas is occurring despite the state’s GOP-dominated government refusing to provide state licensing for ORR care providers, a policy that hasn’t stopped the facilities from operating there, but has meant less child welfare oversight and protections for kids.

  “Texas is very sympathetic to the Trump administration, at least the governor and the Republican legislature. And so I think the Trump administration knows that not only will there be no pushback from the state government and from the governor, but that people like Governor Greg Abbott are willing accomplices,” Veronica Escobar, a Democratic congresswoman from west Texas, told the Guardian in a phone interview this week…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/18/trump-undocumented-children-texas

 

RFK Jr.’s claim that the US has the ‘sickest children’ in world history is wrong – PolitiFact

For most of human history, about half of children died before puberty, with disease as a major contributor. 

Childhood mortality has fallen significantly in the U.S. and globally in the last century, largely because of advances in sanitation and medicine, including vaccines. 

U.S. children have a significantly higher mortality rate than children in comparable high-income countries. Children’s chronic disease rates in the U.S. have increased in recent decades…

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/sep/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/children-health-history-midterm-convention/

 

‘Aggressive’ Medicaid crackdowns will hurt children with autism, providers warn - POLITICO

“Yes, there were bad apples, and, absolutely, we agree there should be oversight,” said Holly Creamer, senior clinical director at Heartland ABA, an autism therapy provider in Nebraska. “The oversight should not equate to taking services away from kids and families who need it.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/10/medicaid-fraud-oz-autism-therapy-01070514

 

Revealed: US attorneys rally to free children held in immigration custody

Trump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/attorneys-rally-children-immigration-custody 

 

US could ask parents to prove citizenship or immigration status to obtain passports for children

Proposal offers look at how state department could enforce Trump order targeting what it calls ‘birth tourism’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/parents-citizenship-passports-children 

 

Are Children Being Detained by ICE? Immigration Expert Haddy Gassama Explains immigrant detention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N24kRaNHGgc 

 

Michigan set to get at least $171 million in proposed settlement with Meta

The settlement calls for Meta to: 

Take addition steps to prevent kids under the age of 13 from using its apps. 

Create a default “Night Access Mode” for teen accounts that disables push notifications from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. and limits access to the app after midnight. 

Limit teen accounts to a maximum of two hours on its apps per day, and institute “productive pause” notifications to alert users after 15 minutes of continuous scrolling, and after 60 and 90 minutes of total daily usage. 

Disable "like" counts on teen posts..

 

 

 

Call me crazy but I don’t think we should be electric shocking kids,

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L0XargldPYo

 

US states take on Meta in pivotal trial over child social media addiction claims

State attorneys general allege that tech company intentionally designed addictive products that harm young people…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/meta-child-safety-addiction-lawsuit-states

 

Little Bird: this beautiful, moving Canadian drama will fill you with visceral anger

Although fiction, the story is real. Canada’s colonial history includes the Sixties Scoop – the mass abduction of First Nations children, forcibly taken by welfare services and rehomed with white families. Their adoption papers were sealed, effectively giving them no contact with parents or clue as to their heritage. Little Bird’s six episodes examine the long shadow of this cultural genocide through one family. At the end of each episode we are reminded that there are more Indigenous children in the care system than ever before.…

 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/15/little-bird-canadian-drama-first-nations-children-sixties-scoop-adoptions 

 

Senate kids’ safety probe targets Roblox gaming platform - Live Updates - POLITICO

“Roblox appears to prioritize revenue and engagement metrics over the safety and well-being of our children, and the alleged criminal activity on Roblox warrants congressional scrutiny,” Hawley and Durbin, the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, wrote in a letter obtained by POLITICO...

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/08/13/congress/senators-probe-robloxs-kids-online-safety-practices-01036094

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

Judge Bryan Biedscheid said the bulk of the money – $420m – would be used for treatment services for young people in New Mexico. The rest will go toward awareness and prevention, screening services and other costs over the next five years...

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta

 

THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAID!!!!! (Christian recommends having more children than you can afford.)

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rRgdXr0H7c4

 

She’s Charged With Killing Her Twins. The Anti-Vaccine Movement Made Her a Martyr. – Mother Jones

Andrea Shaw is charged with suffocating her toddlers. Children’s Health Defense says it was the vaccines...

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/andrea-shaw-vaccines-childrens-health-defense-murder-charges/

 

More than 1 million children lost access to food benefits after Trump bill passed

Analysis finds more than 4 million Americans lost Snap benefits, or food stamps, from July 2025 to March 2026…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/food-stamps-children-trump

 

Air pollution may cause childhood obesity by disrupting impulse control, study finds

Babies exposed to higher levels of neurotoxin more likely to have difficulty controlling impulses later, research shows…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/06/air-pollution-childhood-obesity-study

 

The shadowy movement behind ‘Trump accounts’

On the Fourth of July, the Trump administration's new savings accounts for children went live. These ‘Trump accounts’, created as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are ostensibly supposed to help families pay for college and other expenses. 

 But Guardian columnist Moira Donegan says these accounts are really the work of the pronatalist movement, which wants women to have as many babies as possible – and is backed by powerful rightwingers such as JD Vance and Elon Musk. Moira speaks with Carter Sherman about the strange bedfellows who make up the movement, including its ties to the racist conspiracy theory known as the ‘great replacement'…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2026/jul/06/trump-accounts-pronatalist-stateside-moira-donegan

Idaho woman who said infant twins died from vaccines charged with murder

Andrea Shaw and husband appeared on RFK Jr-linked podcast after deaths in May last year of 18-month-olds…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/06/idaho-woman-deaths-children

 

How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’

IDF has killed 235 children in territory since 7 October 2023 with no indictments in what activists say is ‘licence to kill’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/29/is-it-israels-aim-to-kill-our-children-west-bank-parents-implore-end-to-idfs-child-killings-with-impunity