At detention facilities, migrant children plead for basics
They describe migrant detention cells as cages. Teen mothers just want clean clothes for their babies. Others say their children need to see doctors.
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CBP official: US immigration system at 'breaking point'
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said Wednesday that the "breaking point has arrived this week" for the US immigration system.
ICE official stands by comparing detention centers to 'summer camp'
A senior Trump administration official on Tuesday stood by his controversial comments comparing the detention centers for immigrant families to "summer camp," but declined to answer whether he'd send his own children there.
Top immigration official: Family detention centers 'like summer camp'
A top immigration official on Tuesday said family detention centers are "more like summer camp" than a jail during a congressional hearing on the administration's efforts to reunite thousands of immigrant families separated as a result of its zero-tolerance immigration policy.
Protesters briefly block bus leaving migrant detention center in Texas
Chanting protesters briefly blocked a bus leaving a migrant detention center in McAllen, Texas, on Saturday afternoon.
Chaos as parents, lawyers try to find separated children
Immigration attorneys say not much has changed for their clients being held in detention centers, despite President Donald Trump signing an executive order to stop separating children from parents illegally crossing the border.
'Are my parents OK? Where are they?' Immigrant kids' first questions when they arrive in a New York
Twenty children who had been separated from their parents after crossing the US-Mexico border recently arrived at a foster care facility just outside New York City -- and the first thing they wanted to know was if their parents were alright.
Top House Democrat: Protest was 'not appropriate'
The No. 2 Democrat in the House of Representatives argued it was inappropriate for Democratic members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to shout at President Donald Trump when he was in the Capitol earlier this week.
A look inside the places where infant and child migrants are held
One is a former hospital. Another is a retrofitted superstore. One is a tent city with the capacity to grow.
Report blames inadequate medical care for 8 immigrant detainee deaths
Among 16 immigrants deaths in U.S. government detention centers between December 2015 and April 2017, half resulted from inadequate medical care for detainees in times of need, a new report finds.
