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![Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters that reuniting families was a "moral imperative" for the Biden administration.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/gettyimages-1231458573-mayorkas-family-separation-1edc6f5492604084c4f958399c2e779caabff293-scaled-e1614635437729-900x422.jpg)
Biden To Allow Separated Migrant Families To Reunite In The United States
By: Franco Ordoñez | NPR
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“It takes time to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administration before us established,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.
![Teen migrants wait in line inside the Tornillo detention camp in Tornillo, Texas in Dec. 2018.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ap_18347656734157-5996c337f7baa85c130db912da04f721d505fae7-e1547748912908-900x422.jpg)
Federal Immigration Agents Separated More Migrant Children Than Previously Thought
By: John Burnett | NPR
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Before family separation became an official and controversial policy of the Trump administration, federal immigration agents separated “thousands” of migrant children from their parents.
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Immigrant Activist Protest Shuts Down Street In Ohio Capital
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A protest against U.S. immigration policy and recent deportations temporarily shut down a street in Ohio’s capital, resulting in 12 arrests. Protesters blocked the street across… Read More
![A protester outside a closed gate at the Port of Entry facility in Fabens, Texas.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ap_18172633536363-423e7d25057bc67d10c5b4f5141affcd8049c523-e1530905558498-900x422.jpg)
Trump Administration Seeks More Time To Reunify Migrant Families
By: Richard Gonzales | NPR
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Facing a court deadline to reunify separated families, the government says it needs more time to identify parents and reunite them with their children.
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Far From Southwest, Children Of Workplace Raids Await Fate
By: Associated Press
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NORWALK, Ohio (AP) — Two of the largest workplace immigration raids yet under the Trump administration, carried out just weeks apart in Ohio, have upended the lives of hundreds of… Read More
![Central American immigrants depart ICE custody, pending future immigration court hearings, on June 11 in McAllen, Texas.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/gettyimages-971859412-2d3cb772f2903eb75d933e1033f7e1a927611bf0-e1529682633185-900x422.jpg)
Trump’s Migrant Family Policy Now Moves To The Courts
By: Richard Gonzales | NPR
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At issue: How should cases proceed and what should happen to the more than 2,000 immigrant minors already detained in light of the president’s executive order?
![Watched by Vice President Pence, President Trump on Wednesday shows an executive order on immigration aimed at putting an end to the controversial separation of migrant families at the border.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/gettyimages-979580568-2ca99cad804acec376f64059b977646d19b3f041-e1529595217315-900x422.jpg)
Trump’s Executive Order On Family Separation: What It Does And Doesn’t Do
By: Richard Gonzales | NPR
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The president ended a policy that sent children to government-run facilities away from their parents, but critics say he created new problems, and kids already held may be there indefinitely.