Trump administration calls for expanded use of immigrant family detention
Proposed expansion comes days after a public outcry moved the administration to cease the practice of separating children from their migrant parents on the border
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Proposed expansion comes days after a public outcry moved the administration to cease the practice of separating children from their migrant parents on the border
A senior administration official tells CBS News that as of Friday night, about 500 children in custody of Customs and Border Protection were reunited with their parents. That leaves hundreds more who are still being held in facilities managed by the Department of Health and Human Services. That agency has formed a task force aimed a reuniting those children with their parents. Weijia Jiang reports.
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One day after President Trump signed an executive order to stop separating children from parents who enter the U.S. illegally, questions remain at the border. So far it's unclear what will happen to the children that have already been separated. CBS News correspondent David Begnaud reports.
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First lady Melania Trump visited an immigrant detention center Thursday in McAllen, Texas, and participated in a roundtable with the staff there. The facility houses children ages 12 through 17.
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Trump wanted to know, "How I can help to these children to reunite with their families as quickly as possible?"
Franco Ordonez, White House correspondent for McClatchy News, joins CBSN to discuss the response to President Trump's executive order as well as a new report that says immigration officials lost track of more than 6,000 immigrant children.
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President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order Wednesday that temporarily stops the separation of families prosecuted for illegally crossing the border. CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett discusses what prompted the move.
CBS News correspondent Mireya Villarreal is at the U.S.-Mexico border where she's met immigrants hoping for asylum, including one grandmother who just days ago was too afraid to cross over fear of being separated from her family.
On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to end his policy of separating children from parents who enter the U.S. illegally. But adults entering the country illegally will still be prosecuted. CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reports.
Even though President Trump signed an executive order ending the separation of illegal immigrant parents from their children, it's still unclear whether the nearly 2,000 separated families will be reunited. CBS News correspondent David Begnaud reports.
Hundreds of people lined up on the bridge to the U.S. just south of El Paso, many of them women and children hoping for asylum
The executive order does not override the Flores v. Reno consent decree, meaning children may still be separated from parents after 20 days
In a meeting with members of Congress Wednesday, President Trump said he will "be signing something in a little while" to end the separation of illegal migrant parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Watch his remarks.
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CBS News correspondent David Begnaud rode along with a group of Border Patrol agents in Texas' Rio Grande Valley sector, one of the busiest crossing areas for undocumented immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. One of the agents told Begnaud that they feel they are being treated unfairly in the U.S.'s ongoing national conversation about immigration, saying "we all have a heart, but at the end of the day we have to do our job."
CBS News rode along with Border Patrol as they stopped a group of illegal immigrants trying to cross into the U.S.
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President Trump says child smuggling along the southern border was one of his administration's main reasons for the family separation policy. "The smugglers know these rules and regulations better than the people that drew them," Mr. Trump said.