May 03, 2021
Four migrant families split up at the border by the Trump administration's family separation policy will be allowed to reunite in the U.S. this week, according to a Monday announcement from the Biden administration offering them "long-term legal stability."
February 25, 2021
Another 105 migrant children have been reunited with their parents after being separated from them at the U.S. border, but the American Civil Liberties Union is still tracking down the parents of 506 children, the organization told a California federal court Wednesday.
October 20, 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union lawyers tasked with finding migrant families separated by the Trump administration at the U.S. border said Tuesday that they haven't been able to reach the parents of 545 children in custody.
January 13, 2020
The Trump administration has the authority to separate families at the Mexican border based on any criminal history in the parent's background even if it is minor, a California federal judge ruled Monday while finding the government has been using proper overall discretion since the "zero tolerance" border policy ended.
October 24, 2019
The American Civil Liberties Union said on Thursday that the Trump administration had handed over data as part of a class action suit challenging its migrant family separation policy that shows more than 1,500 additional migrant children were separated from their families than previously known.
September 21, 2019
The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday urged a California federal judge to rule that U.S. immigration officials are illegally separating parents from their children based on criminal histories instead of separating families only when a parent is deemed unfit or a danger to their child, saying its present policy is tantamount to "child abuse."
September 12, 2019
The Trump administration still hasn't reunited more than two dozen migrant children who were separated from their parents in detention, more than a year after a California federal judge ordered the government to reunify the families and stop the practice, according to a joint status report.
September 11, 2019
The Trump administration defended its practice of separating immigrant children at the border from parents with criminal backgrounds, saying in response to a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union that its authority to do so has already been established.
July 30, 2019
The Trump administration has separated more than 900 immigrant parents and children since a California federal court prohibited it from doing so last year, and it is continuing the practice, the American Civil Liberties Union claimed Tuesday.
June 06, 2019
The American Civil Liberties Union asked a California federal court on Thursday to order the federal government to allow 21 parents who were separated from their children at the southwest border and then deported without them to legally return to the U.S. to apply for asylum and reunite with their kids.