Showing posts with label zero tolerance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zero tolerance. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Trump administration officials ordered to testify about family separations - The Washington Post

The Trump administration separated more than 3,000 children from their parents along the Mexican border in May and June 2018, the official period of the administration's "zero tolerance" policy. More than 5,500 children were separated from their parents during Donald Trump's term as president. 

Sessions and Nielsen approved the policy documents that put the separations in motion, records show...


Friday, October 9, 2020

New report suggests DOJ was 'driving force' behind Trump's family separations

Immigration policies that led to the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border remain among the Trump administration’s most controversial. Now, a New York Times report sheds additional light on who was involved in that effort -- and why they made the decisions they did. Amna Nawaz reports and talks to Katie Benner, one of the New York Times reporters who broke the story, about the fallout.....
https://youtu.be/JLDlbhvsWlc

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Inside Netflix’s ‘Immigration Nation,’ the Horrifying ICE Documentary Trump Doesn’t Want You to See

In 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in their infinite wisdom, granted a pair of filmmakers unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to their officers and facilities. And for nearly three years, Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz captured the human toll of Trump’s zero tolerance immigration policy, which saw undocumented families ripped apart and placed in ruinous detention centers.
According to Clusiau and Schwarz, ICE—who were contractually allowed to review cuts of the series but to only request edits for privacy violations or factual errors—demanded that the series’ release be held until after the 2020 election, and that the request came from “all the way to the top,” reported The New York Times. Despite governmental pressure, the resulting 6-part docuseries, Immigration Nation, is hitting Netflix on Aug. 3.....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-netflixs-immigration-nation-the-horrifying-ice-documentary-trump-doesnt-want-you-to-see

Monday, February 25, 2019

Campaigners furious after pope's 'defensive' speech on child abuse

Activists for survivors of clerical sexual abuse have reacted furiously after Pope Francis failed to promise a “zero tolerance” approach to paedophile priests and the bishops who cover up their crimes as he closed a landmark summit at the Vatican...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/24/pope-francis-calls-for-all-out-battle-against-abuse-of-children

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Canadian deported despite having served for US military - the guardian

A Canadian army captain who fought alongside American troops in Afghanistan, and who is married to a former officer in the US air force, has been deported as Donald Trump's zero tolerance immigration policies continue to break apart military families. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/20/canadian-deported-despite-having-served-for-us-military

Friday, October 12, 2018

Trump Split Up Many More Migrant Families Than Previously Thought, New Report Finds - Mother Jones

A new report by Amnesty International finds that the Trump administration has separated far more immigrant families than it has publicly admitted. Amnesty reports that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) forcibly separated more than 6,000 family units between mid-April and mid-August under the White House's "zero tolerance" policy. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/amnesty-report-family-separation-trump/

Sunday, July 1, 2018

Friday, June 29, 2018

Reuniting Families Separated At The Border Proves Complicated - NPR

A volunteer in Baltimore spends her days trying to reconnect migrant children and parents who have been separated and detained. One story illustrate why it is not necessarily simple. ....
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/624127967/reuniting-families-separated-at-the-border-proves-complicated

Jennifer Harbury: Today’s Refugee Crisis Is Blowback from U.S. Dirty War...

In our special broadcast from the U.S.-Mexico border, we speak to human rights lawyer Jennifer Harbury, who has lived here in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for over 40 years and has been active in the response to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. Her husband, Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, was a Mayan comandante and guerrilla who was disappeared after he was captured by the Guatemalan army in the 1980s. After a long campaign, she found there was U.S. involvement in the cover-up of her husband’s murder and torture. Now she continues to work with people fleeing violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras....
Interview:
https://youtu.be/GQwaPetvwqI

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Jeff Sessions says Trump administration ‘never really intended’ to separate families - The Washington Post: Analysis

Exclusive: Navy Document Shows Plan to Erect 'Austere' Detention Camps - TIME

The chaotic effort to reunite immigrant parents with their separated kids - The Washington Post

Friday, June 22, 2018

The Trump administration is stealing children; private facilities are drugging and abusing them - Daily Kos

As debate over the Trump administration's so-called "zero-tolerance" policy and detention of thousands of children rages, parents, family members and treating physicians, among others, are publicly sharing accounts of how these children in U.S. custody are being mistreated. .....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1773824







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