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Reuters: DHS Considering Plan to Separate Mothers from Children at Border

HeadlineMar 06, 2017

The Trump administration is continuing further measures to crack down against immigration and immigrants currently living in the United States. Reuters is reporting the Department of Homeland Security is considering a new proposal to separate mothers from their children if they are caught trying to cross the border together. Currently, families are detained together and are supposed to be released from detention relatively quickly, after which they can continue living in the United States while their deportation or asylum cases are processed. But under the new proposal, families would be separated, mothers would be detained, and their children would be placed temporarily in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services. The consideration of the proposal comes as federal immigration agents continue to detain people nationwide, including in Los Angeles, where last week ICE agents tore a 13-year-old girl away from her father, who was detained by ICE agents as he was driving her to school. On Saturday, Mexico opened legal centers at all 50 consulates across the United States in efforts to defend Mexicans from Trump’s deportation crackdown.

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