President Trump's Immigration Order Sparks Confusion, Deep Concern
President Donald Trump's reversal of a policy separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexican border has sparked confusion over how the new guidelines will play out.
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President Donald Trump's reversal of a policy separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexican border has sparked confusion over how the new guidelines will play out.
Despite a Presidential executive order, chaos reigns in the process to reunite immigrant parents and children separated by the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigrant policy.
Concerns persist about the emotional trauma inflicted on immigrant children separated from their families crossing the U.S. border illegally.
Between May 5 and June 9, the Department of Homeland Security said there were 2,342 children separated from their parents along the border as part of a zero-tolerance policy.
The image of a crying child — captured by photographer John Moore — seems to have pushed the nation's conscience a tear too far. Others of children in cages and tent cities have moved many Americans to outrage and now — action.
The Trump administration has not figured out a way to reunite families separated by a new zero-tolerance policy enacted this year that's resulted in more than 2,000 kids being taken from their parents.
The CEOs of American Airlines and United Airlines say they have asked the Trump administration not to put migrant children who have been separated from their parents on their flights.
Fort Worth-based American Airlines has asked the Trump administration not to put migrant children who have been separated from their parents on its flights.
A North Texas-based charity has been called upon to help the children separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Catholic Charities in Fort Worth is already caring for some of those youngsters here in North Texas.
President Donald Trump said he will sign something "in a little while" to address the spike in the number of migrant children being separated from their families at the border.
Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to "tender age" shelters in Texas.
Trump administration officials say they have no clear plan yet on how to reunite the thousands of children separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico Border.
The Dallas County Judge and a State Representative share a goal of helping the children and families who are being separated at the southern border.
Country music icon Willie Nelson has extended an offer to meet President Donald Trump at one of the detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border to better understand what's happening there.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said, "If the roles were reversed and our children were separated from us in Honduras, I think we would want the same thing. We would want the community to rise up."
A lot of shouting and anger aimed at U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess as people want to know what Congress is doing to keep families who are arriving in search of asylum, together.
U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced plans to keep parents and their children together at the border.
Former first lady Laura Bush criticized the Trump administration over the practice of separating undocumented migrant families, taking children from their parents at the border.
The Trump administration's move to separate immigrant parents from their children on the U.S.-Mexico border has grabbed worldwide attention, drawn scorn from human-rights organizations and overtaken the immigration debate in Congress.
There is no law that requires children be separated from their parents at the border. But a legal settlement from 21 years ago forbids children from being incarcerated.
Stephen Colbert came out swinging against Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday night, who cited the Bible in support of separating migrant parents from their children.
Dozens of people, including some children, were discovered in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio.
Immigration judges generally cannot consider domestic and gang violence as grounds for asylum, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday.
A Honduran man who entered the U.S. illegally killed himself in a Texas jail despite guards checking on him every half-hour and a camera in his padded cell.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the deportation of a New York pizza shop worker in danger of being sent back to Ecuador.
