Tuesday's filing is regarding separations that occurred after the administration's controversial "zero tolerance" immigration policy resulting in family separations had ended.
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That led to the separations of families and a political controversy that eventually forced Trump to issue an executive order ending the family separations.
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The policy resulted in the separations of more than 2,000 families from April to May — separations that Trump administration officials had acknowledged could happen.
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Trump faced backlash for the policy, which resulted in the separations of immigrant children and parents at the border, before he ended the separations last week.
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Child separations -- The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the administration's controversial child separations policy that drew an outcry in 2018 and is still having repercussions.
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We'll start with family separations: Trump health official says agency would never have supported family separations A Trump administration health official on Thursday told lawmakers neither he nor anyone at his agency responsible for the care of migrant children would ever have supported a policy to force family separations.
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With respect to separations done after the court order, OIG's report found that DHS frequently provides HHS with a reason for the separations but sometimes with little detail or explanation.
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Military families can teach us a lot about the cost of family separations, and understanding this cost demands that we stand against the use of family separations as a deterrent.
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But Homan said family separations under zero-tolerance were no different in his view than separations due to criminal arrests of adults in custody of a minor, regardless of citizenship.
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Kelly, the former Homeland Security secretary, told NPR that family separations would be a "tough deterrent" in May and Sessions has told Fox News that the separations would send a message.
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In fact, one of the women in an ongoing lawsuit over family separations was apparently one of the first separations that took place during a quiet pilot of the policy last year.
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DHS stopped referring cases to the Justice Department after Trump ordered a halt to separations at the border, but litigation over family separations and the treatment of migrants in US custody has continued.
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So while it's true that criminally prosecuting immigrants who illegally crossed the border was an approach that paved the way for many family separations, it's not the only reason family separations have occurred.
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False claim: Family separations are Democrats' fault Trump said the family separations at the border are "a result of Democrat-supported loopholes in our federal laws" that he said could be easily changed.
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The American Civil Liberties Union is also challenging the separations.
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The separations on Wednesday occurred at about noon, Miller said.
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The separations also resulted in several federal lawsuits being filed.
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The American Civil Liberties Union is also challenging family separations.
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JOLTS reports the number of hires and separations each month.
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"Their separation isn't like other people's separations," says the insider.
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But the door to resuming family separations is officially open.
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He said laws should be changed to prevent family separations.
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Reuters: Trump immigration order may not prevent some family separations.
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Trump signed an executive order last week halting the separations.
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He also invoked the Bible in defending the family separations.
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White warned that not all of the cases involve separations.
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But family separations were happening before officials announced the policy.
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Nielsen flatly denied that family separations amount to child abuse.
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Senators are only just beginning to wrestle with the separations.
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"We have to take care of these separations," he said.
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How much will President Donald Trump's child separations cost taxpayers?
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The cruelty of immigrant family separations must not be tolerated.
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Four separate House panels are continuing probes into family separations.
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The separations are the direct result of Trump administration policy.
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Trump issued an executive order in June to stop those separations, although the Texas Civil Rights Project recently released a report counting 272 separations at a single courthouse since Trump formally ended the policy.
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US District Judge Dana Sabraw issued a preliminary injunction in June 2018 that halted most family separations at the border, finding that the ACLU was likely to succeed in arguing that the separations were unlawful.
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President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday ending the parental separations.
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Phil Bredesen, a Democrat who has been outspoken against family separations.
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Quits accounted for a record 62 percent of separations in March.
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Separations also happened under previous administrations, but generally they were inadvertent.
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Tech leaders condemn policy leading to family separations at the border
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Trump has since signed an executive order to halt the separations.
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Trump and his attorney general own the cruelty of family separations.
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Dianne Feinstein about backing her bill to halt the family separations.
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But these reunions have come only after often long, painful separations.
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Trump subsequently signed an executive order to halt the family separations.
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Lawmakers could still act on a narrower measure ending the separations.
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Mental health experts predict the separations could have long-term consequences.
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With the family separations came intense scrutiny, jeopardizing the charity's future.
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Cesar Blanco called "ground zero" of the administration's family separations policy.
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She had been reading my articles about family separations and reunions.
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There have been media reports of sexual violence and family separations.
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Trump reversed course last week, ordering an end to the separations.
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Theirs was a whirlwind romance, filled later on with long separations.
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"What's happening is the government is doing separations unilaterally without any process to contest the separations and without a child welfare expert overseeing the separations," ACLU attorney Lee Gelenrt told the AP. CBP maintains that the agency will continue refusing to release detained migrant children to family members other than their parents in order to "prioritize the safety" of migrant children.
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The Trump administration insists the family separations are required under the law.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an order to stop the separations.
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Some moderate Republicans have also called on Trump to stop the separations.
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Last week, Trump signed an executive order aimed at stopping such separations.
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While Trump later signed an order barring such separations, protests have continued.
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They were winning the battle over family separations at the southern border.
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The company has denied its tech has been involved with family separations.
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Church leaders and lawmakers from both parties have called the separations inhumane.
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" The separations were a result of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance policy.
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These are glimpses of the ongoing family separations at America's southern border.
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In June, Trump ended the family separations after an intense public outcry.
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He made an announcement about family separations – and postponed the congressional picnic.
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Trump has falsely claimed they are to blame for the family separations.
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The measure has resulted in the separations of hundreds of migrant families.
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Those separations can be a traumatic experience for parent and child alike.
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Within separations, the layoffs and discharges rate was unchanged at 6900 percent.
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And the ACLU has filed a class action lawsuit over family separations.
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Trump signed an executive order to end the separations earlier this month.
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Trump recently halted those separations by signing a narrow executive order. Sen.
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Washington (CNN)Family separations at the border have become a political football.
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Outrage over the separations has been at a fever pitch for weeks.
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The Hill: Vulnerable House GOP leader takes lead on family separations bill.
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However, Cruz also said that Trump was responsible for the ongoing separations.
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Democrats have gone all-in to draw attention to the family separations.
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Some in Congress have suggested they'll pass legislation to block the separations.
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Senate Democrats are pushing a measure that would address family separations alone.
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Republican lawmaker reaction to family separations grew more intense over the weekend.
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Stanger keeps an eye out for restraining orders, lawsuits, institutionalization, and separations.
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Separations have also continued since Trump's June executive order ending 'zero tolerance.
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But that number does not represent the full scope of family separations.
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In June, President Trump signed an order meant to stop the separations.
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The report was the latest of several reviews of the separations policy.
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Plaintiffs in the case have requested additional information on the new separations.
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Separations increased from 3.7% to 3.8% and quits held steady at 2.3%.
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The study's reviewers pointed out something important—the study only tests separations between a source and a masking noise of around six degrees or higher, and doesn't test the two coming from smaller separations or the same place.
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The increased enforcement has resulted in a much higher rate of family separations.
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According to people close to the secretary, family separations weren&apost her idea.
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The administration abandoned family separations in June in the face of widespread condemnation.
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This isn't true — the family separations occured because of the "zero tolerance" rule.
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That led to mass family separations at the border, and subsequent court challenges.
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Quite a few called for a legislative fix to deal with family separations.
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Officials have cited the zero tolerance policy as the cause of family separations.
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The real reason for the family separations was to deter future illegal immigration.
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It just goes to show that not all separations have to be nasty.
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Separations, which combines quits and fires, fell from 5.78 million to 5.67 million.
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Those figures include separations enacted due to immigration violations or adults' criminal conduct.
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Trump later signed an executive order to end the practice of family separations.
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Trump signed an executive order earlier this year to end the family separations.
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They endure separations from loved ones, and they often move around a lot.
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The White House is reportedly considering new polices that may result in separations.
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To ease criticism, Trump last week signed an executive order ending family separations.
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Additionally, there was no tracking of family separations before 2017, according to DHS.
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Previous administrations have addressed those individuals in civil court, which meant no separations.
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For thousands of others, though, there's no end in sight to the separations.
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By that math, the total number of separations would be more than 3,000.
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Harry sympathized with those he met over the separations that the families face.
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That results in increased separations of children from parents as cases are heard.
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McConnell has opposed family separations, but backs the holding of families in detention.
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Some families affected by the earlier zero-tolerance separations continue to face repercussions.
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Recently, Congress held six hearings about children in cages and ongoing family separations.
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Some conservative religious leaders are sharply rebuking the Trump administration for such separations.
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And now they're also facing a major shakeup in the lawsuit over separations.
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New separations to allow for more privacy are expected to be installed instead.
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They are a component of the larger "separations" category in the JOLTS report.
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A status hearing in the family separations case is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
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Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called on the president to stop family separations.
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What transpires when unknown external forces, like a sleep virus, provoke these separations?
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The officials also shed light on the murky conditions surrounding ongoing family separations.
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Do you support any of the proposals out there to stop [family separations]?
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Melania Trump The first lady, through her spokeswoman, said she "hates to see" the separations, though she did not acknowledge the separations are a result of Trump administration policy and called for "both sides of the aisle" to pass immigration reform.
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These stipulations that have become a major factor in family separations at the border.
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At issue, however, is the spike of children in custody resulting from family separations.
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Smith said she was protesting the separations and wants to see families back together.
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On Wednesday, Trump bowed to pressure and signed an executive order ending the separations.
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But tensions are running high over the debate on family separations at the border.
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At least one lawmaker also attributed the photo to the Trump administration's family separations.
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In 2009, layoffs and discharges jumped to more than 50 percent of job separations.
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"This operation would not have been necessary without the separations," said the incident commander.
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And the calls come after weeks of stories about family separations at the border.
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Several Trump officials have been challenged in public as a result of the separations.
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The family separations have sparked public outrage in the U.S. and around the world.
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Wolfe said family separations are "not driving" the expanded need for the tent city.
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Trump signed an executive order amid widespread criticism last week to end the separations.
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Lawmakers are weighing a number of stand-alone measures aimed at ending family separations.
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Friday's hearing was the latest in the ACLU lawsuit over the administration's family separations.
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After intense pressure, this separations were halted by an executive order signed in June.
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For another, the separations happened over a period not of days but of months.
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Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, to stop the controversial family separations at the border.
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DHS officials have only given HHS limited information about the reasons for these separations.
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Healing the separations therefore requires the cooperation of two different sections of the government.
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Friday's hearing was the latest in an ACLU lawsuit over the administration's family separations.
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Trump's decision to fold on family separations at the border is a case study.
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Just because mass separations have been halted doesn't mean that the crisis is over.
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In June, U.S. President Donald Trump ended the family separations after an intense outcry.
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New Zealand protests Family separations aren't just an issue on the US-Mexico border.
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However, when the economy is expanding, most job separations are people quitting their jobs.
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Detentions and deportation proceedings have also resulted in family separations far from the border.
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The investigative news site ProPublica posted an audio clip of some of the separations.
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In general, ORR staff were concerned that systematic family separations would overload their program.
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Mr. Trump is seeking to contain a full-blown political crisis over the separations.
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" Spokeswoman Hope Hicks said the required separations documents are "not public at this time.
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Such separations are common when an adult with a child is not the parent.
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However, separations began months later, and the policy wasn't formally announced until April 2018.
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Military families become familiar with trying to contort their lives around deployments and separations.
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He called the separations "unacceptable" and "misdirected" after visiting the border in late June.
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Democrats, though, focused their questioning on the policies that led to the family separations.
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I mean, I've- How did you feel about the border separations as a citizen?
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Instead, they're making the comparison to point out the disturbing moral worldview behind family separations.
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President Donald Trump says he plan to sign an executive action to end the separations.
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Have gotten a range of responses about child separations from Trump supporters in Duluth today.
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The source said those resisting know that the storyline will be family separations once again.
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Trump issues an executive order to end the family separations, and yet they still march.
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Mesoamerican language specialists are not the only interpreters sought amid the wave of family separations.
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On Thursday, Sessions attempted to use the Bible to explain why the separations were necessary.
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CBP officials have said that they implemented a process to record separations in April 2018.
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The story of the moment is without a doubt the family separations at the border.
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Hires and separations changed little at 5.2 million and 5 million, respectively, the department said.
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Trump signed an executive order earlier this month to end the practice of family separations.
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The separations of families at the border is another issue the CHC wants to example.
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Sessions and other administration officials have pointed to a deterrence strategy as justifying family separations.
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The separations were ended after a storm of criticism from both sides of the aisle.
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Thursday's court filing was the latest development in the ACLU's case over immigrant family separations.
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The hires rate remained unchanged at 3.9% while the separations rate also held at 3.8%.
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Homan added that he had recommended the zero-tolerance policy, which led to family separations.
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The policy resulted in over 2,85033 family separations and a political headache for the administration.
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ET. The episode was taped before Trump signed his executive order ending family separations Wednesday.
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Trump signed an executive order last week halting the separations after days of bipartisan outcry.
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Jayapal is one of the lawmakers attending this Saturday's Washington, D.C., rally against family separations.
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Additionally, the investigation reveals that Long Island's dominant residential brokering firms help solidify racial separations.
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According to the report, some separations occurred before the policy was announced in April 2018.
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His comments come as the Trump administration faces an onslaught of backlash over the separations.
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The policy resulted in over 2,500 family separations and a political headache for the administration.
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On Tuesday, a federal judge issued an order to reunite families and end most separations.
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Evangelical leaders also deplored the separations, although they largely deflected blame away from Mr. Trump.
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The executive order that ended family separations did not lay out steps for reuniting families.
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If you missed Part 1, about how the separations began, you can find it here.
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Emily Goldberg, pro bono counsel at Paul Weiss, orchestrated the firm's response to family separations.
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The administration initially claimed that separations were not happening but eventually acknowledged that they were.
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The House Appropriations Committee has a hearing on family separations set for Wednesday as well.
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Separations also were little changed, with a drop of 4,000 keeping the rate at 3.7%.
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Why nothing we tried — individual and marriage therapy, romantic vacations, trial separations — could fix us.
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The policy was widely condemned and rescinded in June 2018, although some separations still occur.
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No Republican senator has yet voiced support for a Democratic measure that would end separations.
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The president's daughter, however, was mum on commenting about the separations as they were ongoing.
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Immigration advocates have said that separations of children from parents have been happening for months.
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Farrell and his co-signers are using the true grotesquerie of Nielsen's tenure — child separations!
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A House report sheds new light on the administration's policy of family separations, an opioid manufacturer settled a lawsuit for a record amount of money, and the House will vote to kill an unpopular part of ObamaCare We'll start with family separations: House report: Trump administration separated at least 2900 immigrant infants and toddlers A report from the House Oversight Committee has shed new light on the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy of family separations.
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The separations are often for reasons as simple as a parent with a traffic ticket, according to documents filed in federal court on Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union, which is asking the judge to clarify a set of standards for such separations.
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Over the month, hires and separations were little changed at 5.3 million and 5 million, respectively.
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He faced bipartisan criticism over the separations, but the outrage reached intense levels on the left.
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Republicans, meanwhile, have emphasized that it's well within the White House's power to halt the separations.
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The March turnover rate was similar to February's at 3.5 percent or 5 million total separations.
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Over the 12 months ending in March, hires totaled 62.4 million while separations totaled 59.6 million.
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These separations will significantly escalate mental and physical health risks for both children and their parents.
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Executives from Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Google, Twitter, and many others spoke out against family separations.
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Andrew Cuomo said his state is filing a "multi-agency lawsuit" alleging family separations are unconstitutional.
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The biggest story this week has undoubtedly been the family separations at the US–Mexico border.
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A woman climbed the Statue of Liberty on the 4th of July to protest family separations.
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Sabraw, who sits in San Diego, issued an order June 2000 that halted most border separations.
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He doesn't get that there are separations, that people have responsibilities to things other than Trump.
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There were 4.9 million total separations, also little changed, with 2.9 million quits, the report said.
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Over the month, hires and separations were little changed at 5.4 million and 5.3 million, respectively.
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Senate Democrats introduced their own legislation Thursday curbing family separations and setting health and treatment standards.
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The practice drew overwhelming bipartisan backlash, prompting Trump to sign an executive order halting the separations.
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At the time, Sessions acknowledged the process could lead to such separations upon adults being apprehended.
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The separations were a direct result of the Justice Department's "zero tolerance" policy toward illegal immigration.
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However, Trump eventually caved to pressure and signed an executive order in June halting the separations.
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The policy called for any individual crossing the border to be arrested, leading to the separations.
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Trump, bowing to bipartisan backlash, signed an executive order to stop the family separations last month.
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Hires increased by 50,0003 to 5.93 million, while total separations increased by 76,000 to 5.81 million.
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The chaos meant that Trump's hopes of quelling the political uproar over the separations were dashed.
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When asked about the policy, Romney, a former GOP presidential nominee, described the separations as cruel.
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If the new approach fails to pass legal scrutiny, a real possibility, such separations could resume.
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Carlos Curbelo, R-Florida, also said Trump mentioned being approached by his daughter about family separations.
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The Trump administration has vigorously defended its zero-tolerance policy amid outrage over the family separations.
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She noted Ivanka Trump's remarks last year that family separations were a "low point" for her.
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The filing also alleged that separations are happening because of unsubstantiated allegations of abuse or neglect.
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The ACLU urged the judge to clarify his previous ruling on when such separations were warranted.
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The separations of immigrant families have touched a nerve with Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen.
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Her statements at times bent fact, including her claim that only Congress could end the separations.
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Ryan blamed the separations, which have sparked bipartisan criticism and emotional news coverage, on the courts.
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Trump later halted the separations via executive order, but faced criticism from lawmakers in both parties.
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But since then, authorities have justified certain family separations saying that the children's parents endangered them.
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So far, the policy has resulted in the separations of least 2,000 children from their families.
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But Trump has defended his administration's actions and falsely blamed the Democrats for the continuing separations.
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There's a series of steps that happen first, including rocket-stage separations and reaching lunar orbit.
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday expressed support for legislation that would end the separations at the border.
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TV's "Rising" that family separations happened under former President Obama, but only in certain isolated cases.
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The president buckled to the pressure on Wednesday, issuing an executive order that ended the separations.
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Advocates say the United States does not appear to keep records on family separations under MPP.
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The reunification process has highlighted how traumatic separations stemming from the zero-tolerance policy have been.
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These long separations have provided adequate opportunity for the frequencies of genetic variations to change. 4.
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Recent public outcry over family separations has renewed questions about the decision to end the program.
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In fact, the administration announced a "zero tolerance" approach this spring, leading to the separations. Mrs.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein of California has collected 43 Democratic sponsors for legislation to limit family separations.
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The American Civil Liberties Union says that since then, the pace of separations has accelerated sharply.
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And privately, the president has groused that he should not have signed the order undoing separations.
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Members of both parties have responded with their own legislative proposals to deal with the separations.
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The judge's order came as the president faces a second legal challenge about the family separations.
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Indeed, refugee workers say, separations are especially painful when the youths are split up by resettlement.
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After an international outcry, President Trump issued an order on June 20 to end family separations.
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Family separations are one of the most contentious aspects of the Trump administration's new border policies.
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However, Ristine's church is not the first to condemn migrant family separations under the Trump administration.
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The class is modified to include separations that occurred as far back as July 1, 2017.
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The report also noted that hires increased to 45.113 million and separations increased to 5.3 million.
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"The language barrier contributed, at least in part, to a lot of those separations," Olivares said.
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Following an international outcry, President Trump signed an executive order on June 20 halting the separations.
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His lawyers have argued that that condition violates Japan's constitution and international law on family separations.
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Democratic senators have all gotten behind the Keep Families Together Act, which would stop family separations.
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The Trump Administration ended family separations in June, after weeks of international outcry over the policy.
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It's tempting for liberals to see President Trump's executive order suspending family separations as a victory.
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Some legal experts have said exceptions in the Wednesday executive order could allow some separations to continue.
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Ghosn's lawyers have argued that the bail condition violates Japan's constitution and international law on family separations.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Obama administration bears some responsibility for child separations on the border.
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DHS HEAD CALLS ON CONGRESS TO ACT, SAYS BORDER SEPARATIONS ARE &aposNOT NEW&apos Earlier Monday, Sen.
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A number of immigration bills are under consideration in Congress, addressing the family separations to various degrees.
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Kelly's ties to family separations date to when he served as secretary of Homeland Security under Trump.
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The 'Special Report' All-Star panel weighs in after Trump signs executive order to end family separations.
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Some of those cases ultimately might not involve separations, White said Friday in a federal court hearing.
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According to a Quinnipiac poll released on Monday, an overwhelming 66 percent of voters oppose family separations.
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According to a Quinnipiac poll released this week, an overwhelming 66 percent of voters oppose family separations.
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In March, 59 percent of separations were workers quitting, up from 57 percent the previous two months.
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Trump himself last week said that he could not solve the border separations crisis via executive order.
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Rosa, like Lettunich, believes the media coverage of the family separations has been unfair to President Trump.
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The number of hires far outstrips net job creation because hires and separations tend to move together.
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The official said separations in such circumstances are rare, but that the numbers are not tracked separately.
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The new legislation also addresses family separations, something Democrats have long criticized the Trump administration for enforcing.
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The turnover rate in January was 3.4 percent or 4.9 million total separations, ticking down from December.
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" Clinton recently spoke out against the family separations, saying the policy "makes no sense" and was "immoral.
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Railway-highway grade separations, truck-only lanes, and highway or bridge projects are examples of possible uses.
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Last month, a CBP official testified that there were 638 separations between May 6 and May 19.
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Trump says he 'brought the families together' after being confronted in an interview about migrant family separations
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In late June, facing bipartisan backlash, Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending forced family separations.
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The Trump Administration ended the family separations in June after weeks of international outcry over the policy.
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Archbishop Gomez's focus on border detentions and family separations has often been more pastoral than overtly political.
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Net employment — or the difference between hires and separations — has increased by 2.5 million people in 2019.
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Instead, the songs lament separations, question their own wanderlust and, at times, envision death as a refuge.
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Harris reportedly called the separations "a crime against humanity" after stopping at a detention facility last week.
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The policy and the resulting separations have been widely criticized by lawmakers, advocacy groups and health experts.
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No such provisions are even contemplated for these brutal, policy-driven, involuntary family separations at the border.
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The question is whether the past week of family separations will change voters' minds and their priorities.
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Former first lady Laura Bush also drew parallels between the family separations and World War II internments.
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Administration officials have blamed the separations on Congress, accusing lawmakers of failing to pass significant immigration reform.
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GOP senators ask administration to pause the separations: More than a dozen Republican senators led by Sen.
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New York state announced last week that it planned to sue the Trump administration over family separations.
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DHS says the separations occurred due to criminal activity or gang affiliation by the adults, or hospitalization.
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That's a false claim; The family separations are a result of the administration's "no tolerance" immigration policy.
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Trump administration officials have offered up often-contradictory explanations for the separations, frustrating critics and supporters alike.
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Net employment -- or the difference between hires and separations -- has increased by 22019 million people in 2019.
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Last month, a CBP official testified that there were 638 separations between May 6 and May 19.
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A federal judge in California ordered families reunited and demanded a stop to most of the separations.
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Cases usually come to light only when migrants come to court, often weeks after the separations occur.
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The DHS inspector general had already been investigating reports of family separations, as CNN reported in April.
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The separations came after families crossed the border illegally or filed for asylum at a border crossing.
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The separations have been widely criticized, and children's health advocates have said the kids likely suffered trauma.
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The complaint was just the latest example of how widespread criticism of the family separations has been.
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The American Psychological Association warned that the separations threatened the mental and physical health of the children.
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Then there are the politics of the border, amplified by Mr. Trump's immigration policy of family separations.
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For now, it seems the separations will stop, but it remains unclear what will happen going forward.
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That number is down to 275, through a combination of attrition and voluntary separations, Mr. Briggs said.
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Possible venues for legal challenges to family separations would likely pose a problem for the Trump administration.
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Over the month, hires and separations were also little changed at 5.5 million and 5.3 million, respectively.
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More than 153,600 separated children were turned over before the separations were halted -- 400 of whom remain.
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Though the family separations crisis is mostly over, the conditions in detention centers remain substandard and dangerous.
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Authorities reported more than 2,700 separations, but recently admitted that thousands more may have been locked away.
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Several governors had pulled back their National Guard troops in response to family separations at the border.
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They involve lost loves and lessons learned, connections and separations, hopes and shortcomings, memories and what-ifs.
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The order came amid a full-blown political crisis over the separations, and many kinds of protests.
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As a result, episodes such as the one involving family separations should do little to move voters.
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And many of those unofficial separations were probably not cartels, but families separated based on thin suspicions.
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Public health experts have warned that the forcible family separations likely caused lasting trauma to the children.
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The president has strongly defended his administration's actions and cast blame for the family separations on Democrats.
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That it's on Congress alone to stop the family separations — Well, the president is enforcing the law.
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Trump repeats falsehood that Democrats are to blame for forced family separations at the US-Mexico border
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Her visit comes right after President Trump signed an executive order to end the much-maligned family separations.
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He blamed the recent surge in separations of unaccompanied children and their families on loopholes in immigration law.
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Sabraw ruled in March that this group should be included in the class action lawsuit over family separations.
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Trump has ordered the separations to be stopped, but critics are still fighting the prosecutions and other detentions.
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Jacky Rosen, a Democrat from Nevada, because of his connection to the separations of families at the border.
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Buckingham Palace has in the past announced divorces or separations within the family through an official public statement.
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It adds data on job openings and hires as well as job separations like quits, layoffs and discharges.
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But it has since identified more separations; approximately 22018,090 occurred after and in violation of the court order.
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Some legal experts said the wording of the executive order was ambiguous and that family separations could continue.
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The ACLU filed a motion that asked the judge to clarify a set of standards for child separations.
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America's other major airlines, Delta, also said that the family separations "do not align with Delta's core values".
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Though Trump signed an executive order to end the separations, reuniting some families remains a work in progress .
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Watchdog reports Administration watchdog reports have identified numerous problems in how agencies were monitoring and handling family separations.
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Staff at the refugee agency developed mechanisms to track separations due to operational concerns, according to the report.
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The Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy, announced in April 2018, caused thousands of family separations at the border.
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But on Wednesday morning, President Trump said he would be "signing something" on immigration related to family separations.
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They also argue that Section 1325 made many of the Trump administration's family separations at the border possible.
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GOP strategists, citing internal polls, were concerned the family separations would harm Republican candidates, particularly among female voters.
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The plan also calls for ending family separations at the border and allowing asylum seekers into the country.
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Trump last week issued an executive order mandating joint family detention in response to outrage over the separations.
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That means they'll be on to the next thing — a slimmed down version that only addresses family separations.
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Last month, as the outcry grew over family separations, Trump administration officials continually said their hands were tied.
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Several liberals have blasted the raids over concerns of family separations, extrajudicial action, pain and human rights violations.
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Trump on Wednesday said he would be signing an executive order to put an end to family separations.
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Outcry over the separations grew over the weekend as members of Congress visited detention centers around the country.
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On Tuesday, Trump met with Republicans on Capitol Hill to discuss legislative ways to end the family separations.
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If his administration can finally get a handle on the family separations, it's possible the crisis could fade.
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Democrats have been raising noise about the separations for weeks, and Republicans have started to work on legislation.
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Some called for the administration to end the separations while others renewed their calls for broader immigration revisions.
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Trump falsely claims that Democrats are to blame because they supposedly created a law that forces the separations.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday, which he said was a way to end separations.
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Here's what Trump and other administration officials said earlier on family separations before Trump announced the executive order.
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Recently, such enforced separations of migrant children from the parents at the southern border, became US government policy.
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Ivanka Trump made headlines after a rare public disagreement with her father over family separations and the media.
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While Trump has reversed course on family separations through an executive order, the policy may resume, as Rep.
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The clip by Sinclair downplayed the issue of family separations, saying it was concocted by politically motivated liberals.
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The zero-tolerance policy on illegal border crossings has led to a spike in prosecutions and family separations.
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That left front-line officials unprepared to handle the ensuing separations of thousands of children from their families.
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Some of the new separations are being undertaken with no clear documentation to help track the children's whereabouts.
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Mr. Pence, who did not mention the family separations during his speech on Friday, called such positions extreme.
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President Trump issued an executive order on June 20 halting the separations after bipartisan outcry and global condemnation.
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The separations have been widely criticized, and President Trump has falsely claimed that Democrats are responsible for them.
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Mr. O'Rourke, who called the family separations "torture," seems likely to keep immigration policy central to his campaign.
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Migrant arrests declined in May, June and July, but have escalated sharply since the president halted the separations.
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Zwiener went into labor at a demonstration against migrant family separations, then campaigned with her newborn in tow.
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Put simply, the separations were a feature, not a bug, of the administration's decision to enforce Section 1325.
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But so far, microgravity offers the best environment to prevent the density separations and avoid the costly crystallization.
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And the separations can be traumatic for parents who now have no clear path to recovering their children.
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Rise and Resist opposes President Donald Trump's administration and advocates ending deportations and family separations at the border.
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The policy has led to thousands of separations as a result of adults having to be prosecuted separately.
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Trump signed an executive order to halt the separations, but thousands of families have yet to be reunited.
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During that time, I endured two shoulder separations, a dislocated kneecap and several snapped tendons in my hand.
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One of the sharpest critics of the Trump administration's family separations at the US-Mexico border, Oregon Sen.
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Mr. Trump eventually relented on the family separations, and a federal judge in California halted them in June.
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The American Civil Liberties Union had filed a lawsuit to stop the separations before the president's executive order.
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After an international outcry, President Trump signed an executive order on June 20 that halted the family separations.
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For more on the family separations at the border, listen to the June 18 episode of Today Explained.
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At that point, though, "It was our understanding that there was no policy to affect separations," White said.
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials told Amnesty that cases of suspected "fraud" aren't reliably counted as separations.
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These policies are energizing the June 23 protest, even after pressure forced Trump to balk on family separations.
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The truth is that huge numbers of Americans — mostly Republicans — were willing to back the family separations policy.
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He said yesterday the family separations are "so sad" and again called on the Democrats to make a deal.
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The bureau said the number of hires and separations were little changed at 5.1 million and 4.9 million, respectively.
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Woodstock resident Jane Kurtis says she knew she had to do something after hearing the news about family separations.
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The bureau said the number of hires and separations was little changed at 5.2 million and 5 million, respectively.
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And the only way that we're going to end family separations is if we get rid of that law.
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Here's the story behind it: Here's a list of all the Republicans who have publicly opposed the separations. Sen.
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In June, a federal judge ordered the administration to end separations for most families attempting to cross the border.
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Because of these separations, some boxing and wrestling events featured fight cards of entirely African-American or Mexican fighters.
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The Texas Civil Rights Project report is the first data on family separations to come from outside the government.
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On June 26, Judge Dana Sabraw issued an order that halted most family separations at the US–Mexico border.
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And their interviews underscored the emotional toll that family separations and detention have had on children taken into custody.
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The Trump administration's border crackdown has been stymied somewhat, following an executive order declaring an end to family separations.
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World leaders from Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei to Sweden's Margot Wallström have also weighed in to criticize the border separations.
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There were 5 million separations, which includes quits, layoffs and discharges, in April, little changed from the month before.
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Within separations, the quit rate in April was 2 percent, and the layoffs and discharges rate was 1.1 percent.
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President Trump holds his executive order to end family separations, alongside Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, on June 20.
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Jeff Merkley to request that the FBI investigate Nielsen for lying to Congress in her testimony on family separations.
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But the ACLU is also currently investigating potential separations that could have occurred before July 1, 2017, he added.
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Neither George W. Bush nor Barack Obama, who deported many more people annually than Mr Trump, resorted to separations.
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Mr Thompson examined the impact of desegregation-related firings and separations using a database covering 22017 Southern school districts.
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Previously, the only numbers provided by federal officials on family separations covered a single two-week period in May.
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Immigration advocates are worried about what these separations will mean for the minors going forward in the United States.
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Four members of the council resigned last year in the wake of child separations, which they called "morally repugnant."
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A group of 13 Republican senators are calling on President Donald Trump to halt family separations at the border.
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Protesters held colorful signs calling for an end to family separations, reunification of families, and the dissolution of ICE
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The turnover rate, including quits, layoffs and discharges, was also little changed at 3.5 percent, or 5.1 million separations.
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That's why House GOP leaders are working on a back-up plan to prevent family separations at the border.
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The bill included a conservative proposal to end family separations at the border, an issue that has inflamed tensions.
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He also pointed to the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies -- including family separations at the border -- as politically problematic.
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Vargas said the decision was particularly concerning given mounting tensions surrounding migrant family separations at the U.S.–Mexico border.
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The separations had occurred as part of a "zero tolerance" policy of prosecuting all adults illegally crossing the border.
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The most interesting intangible about the separations controversy is whether the emotive element of bereft children changes that equation.
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As more children flood the system as a result of the administration's family separations, Young fears what could result.
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" Love was among the first Republicans to strongly condemn family separations at the border, calling the policy "absolutely terrible.
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Additionally, key Republican voices have criticized the separations and some have urged President Donald Trump to reverse the practice.
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His comments came after recent allegations that family separations occurred just as frequently, if not more, during previous administrations.
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The development, however, contradicts repeated assertions from top administration officials that only Congress could act to end the separations.
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"Ivanka feels very strongly," Trump said on Wednesday when asked if his daughter showed him photos of the separations.
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Some agents have been criticized for using excessive force on migrants and for their handling of the family separations.
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Over the 12 months to the end of July, U.S. job hires totaled 63.6 million and separations 61.5 million.
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After widespread criticism over family separations, the Trump administration laid out a plan to reunite the parents and children.
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A week ago, a Quinnipiac University poll found Republican voters backing the separations, by 55 percent to 85033 percent.
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"But in some cases DHS has provided HHS with limited information about the reasons for these separations," said Maxwell.
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The separations prompted widespread outrage, and Mr. Trump eventually signed an executive order to keep children with their parents.
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These separations, though, were only tracked informally, making it impossible for the auditor to know the exact number overall.
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The official tally of separations is now nearly 4,000 children, not including March and the beginning of April 2018.
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A lot of gossip took place there, among the salesladies and the customers: the affairs, the separations, the matches.
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It did not mention immigration, the wall or family separations, issues affecting the Latinx community in particular right now.
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President Trump signed an executive order on June 20 calling for an end to family separations at the border.
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Administration officials have declined to reveal how many children have been reunited with their parents since separations were discontinued.
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The Trump administration interpreted this as a requirement, or a "loophole," that Congress must fix to stop the separations.
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Ms. Trump referred to the issue of family separations in the past tense, but hundreds of families remain apart.
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Amid mounting political pressure and public outrage, President Trump issued an executive order on June 20 ending the separations.
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We're covering last night's Democratic debate, more migrant family separations at the border and a conversation with Megan Rapinoe.
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The separations occurred before the "zero tolerance" policy was announced by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April 27.
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Deficiencies in tracking separations and reunifications have been widely reported, as well as revealed in an ongoing court case.
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" After Mr. Biden promised that there would not be family separations under his administration, someone shouted, "That's a lie!
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His administration brought us kids in cages, family separations, and an attempt to depress Latino participation in the Census.
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The new numbers appeared in the latest federal court filing in the ACLU class action case over family separations.
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There's also a lot of misinformation coming out about the Trump administration and what they're doing about family separations.
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That provided little reprieve to Nadler, who immediately questioned Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost about the consequences of separations.
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After retreating on the family separations, Trump urged Congress to act quickly and follow up his order with legislation.
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It might be helpful if there were more precedents for peaceful, orderly, democratic separations, rather than violent, chaotic ones.
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The pain and terror of the family separations story has ground on throughout the time I've been writing here.
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These separations began when the administration imposed a zero-tolerance policy on illegally crossing the border earlier this year.
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But the officials maintained that past administrations had also cracked down on illegal immigration, similarly resulting in family separations.
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But the administration's efforts to enforce a hard-line stance on immigration through regulation changes and executive orders have been largely thwarted by the court system and, in the case of family separations earlier this year, stymied by a global outcry that prompted Trump to scrap separations through an executive order June 20.
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Trump has sought to blame Democrats, saying their support for passage of a broader immigration bill would end the separations.
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He went over the U.S.-Mexican border while protesting family separations, so he allegedly violated both U.S. and Mexican law.
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No. Trump's darkest turns — the defense of white nationalists, the family separations, the tossed-off nuclear brinkmanship — are profoundly disturbing.
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Earlier this week, the president signed an executive order stopping family separations, allowing them to be detained as a unit.
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But the president backed off following a national and international uproar, ordering an end to the separations on June 20.
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As much as the duo is anticipating the tour, they're not looking forward to long separations from their significant others.
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"The trauma caused by their separations has forced these fathers into untenable positions of fear, anger, and despair," Govindaiah said.
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The Trump administration faced widespread scrutiny last year for a policy that led to the separations of thousands of families.
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But what the American public may not realize is that the ban will also result in family separations for Americans.
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Research indicates that these family separations jeopardize the short- and long-term health and well-being of the children involved.
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Meanwhile, Republicans are eager to see the family separations stop, and they've been encouraging Trump to change the policy himself.
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Furthermore, "law enforcement" separations can happen for a much broader array of reasons — including suspicions that are difficult to disprove.
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Here's the thing, though: It was not immediately clear to what extent the order will actually halt separations long term.
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The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Seattle, is the latest in a growing number of cases challenging border separations.
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The family separations, which were stopped by a federal judge, resulted in a massive public outcry and backlash last summer.
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With child separations emerging as a growing crisis at the US border, government contracting has become more controversial than ever.
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But the Office of Refugee Resettlement (the same agency responsible for recent family separations at the border) had other ideas.
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In the lab, the procedure can achieve separations of up to 95 percent; an important purity threshold for magnet manufacturers.
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An outcry at home and abroad forced U.S. President Donald Trump to order a halt to the separations in June.
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The operatic approach lines up with the album's themes of time, separations, love, and the immense pressure of being alive.
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The court argued that such an arrangement flouts the Constitution's separations of powers and poses a risk to individual liberty.
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The bipartisan backlash against family separations ultimately pushed the administration to reverse its policy, but the issue is not resolved.
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More than 1,000 people prepare to march on the federal courthouse in Brownsville to protest family separations at the border.
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If he cared about Latinos, he could shine a light on hate crimes or the ongoing horror of family separations.
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Nielsen on Wednesday defended the Trump administration's policies amid fierce questioning from Democrats over officials' handling of the family separations.
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The president insisted only Congress could act to curb the separations, but ultimately signed an executive order halting the practice.
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Trump reversed his administration's policy with an executive order banning migrant family separations after facing sharp criticism for the policy.
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"The abuses we have seen, including family separations, extended incarcerations and even violent and sexual assault, must stop," Linderman said.
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The policy, announced earlier this year, resulted in the separations of more than 2628,28503 migrant families from April to May.
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At that point, Congress will be under immense pressure to pass a standalone measure providing a fix for family separations.
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Trump gave in to bipartisan pressure last week by signing an executive order to end the practice of family separations.
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The plans from DHS and HHS come after Trump faced backlash from Republican and Democratic lawmakers to end the separations.
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But critics complained her clothing choice was insensitive, given her destination and the ongoing national debate over immigrant family separations.
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A federal judge this week ordered a halt to most family separations at the border and the reunification of families.
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"I'm protesting family separations as an evil manifestation of a historical disregard for people and communities of color," she said.
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President Trump insisted that only an act of Congress could stop the separations, and that the Democrats were to blame.
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While it would prevent the separations, it would lengthen the time children can be held in custody with their parents.
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The separations stem from a deliberate policy shift by the Trump administration, which it has the power to unilaterally reverse.
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Trump signed an executive order in June 2018 halting the separations after his "zero tolerance" immigration policy drew nationwide outrage.
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Democratic attorneys general have waged their own legal wars on the Trump administration's travel ban, regulatory rollbacks, and family separations.
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Frustrated with the family separations, a California couple started a Facebook fundraising campaign to reunite children separated from their parents.
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Senate and House leaders have also been trying to find a bill that would end family separations at the border.
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So he continues to market his false claim that the separations are the fault of laws that tie his hands.
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However, the prospect of lawmakers approving a bill related to only family separations appears more likely amid ongoing public uproar.
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This piece in the Los Angeles Times does a good job of capturing just how traumatic these separations have been.
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Jupiter is known for these stripes, which are actually atmospheric separations caused by weather patterns and variations in chemical composition.
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The policy has led to thousands of separations as a result of children and adults having to be prosecuted separately.
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The politics of restarting family separations could be damaging to the GOP, however, and there may also be legal issues.
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Which is why I've watched the massive Democratic mobilization against Trump's family separations with a mixture of admiration and unease.
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The separations sparked widespread condemnation in the United States, including from within President Donald Trump's own Republican Party, and abroad.
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The growing number of separations result directly from the administration's decision to enforce a "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigration.
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After a widespread backlash, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 20 reversing course on the family separations.
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"The authority encourages voluntary separations and helps the Agency complete workforce restructuring with minimal disruption to the workforce," it added.
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"There is no system whatsoever to track these family separations, no efforts systematically to reunite these families," Mr. Enriquez said.
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This is a president who supports brutal family separations, border walls, Muslim bans, anti-LGBT policies, deportations and voter suppression.
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There are further separations and the intro of conjoined plush buddies energetically voiced by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.
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Family separations flout the international law principle that the best interests of all children in a territory must be considered.
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Family separations began quietly last fall and ramped up in May with the announcement of the administration's "zero tolerance" policy.
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Senate Republicans moved to quell a political crisis, vowing to pass a bill to end child separations at the border.
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Sessions also referenced the "zero-tolerance" policy implemented this spring that resulted in thousands of family separations at the border.
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Separations were 5 million and the quits remained mostly unchanged at nearly 85033 million at a rate of 2.1 percent.
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The White House has also said that longstanding laws require the separations, but experts say there are no such laws.
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Immigration lawyers say the separations can last for four months or longer, while the parents' and children's cases proceed separately.
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The law "is worse than our immigration policy — you can't break up rat families," he pivoted, apparently advocating such separations.
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US District Judge Dana Sabraw ruled Friday that potentially thousands more separated families be included in the lawsuit over separations.
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But recent revelations have raised more questions about when separations began taking place and how many more families were separated.
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Rick Scott have been the presumptive nominees for months, sparring over everything from Russian election hacking to family border separations.
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The number of job separations also crept up to 5.24 million in December from 5.21 million in the prior month.
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But there are also some good reasons to be concerned about normalizing secessionism: Peaceful separations of countries are exceedingly rare.
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But CBP officials told the Amnesty researchers a different story — that it simply doesn't count fraud allegations as family separations.
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As head of Customs and Border Protection, he helped enforce Mr. Trump's "zero tolerance" policy, which led to family separations.
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The bipartisan backlash against family separations ultimately pushed the administration to reverse its policy — but the issue is not resolved.
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And with the numbers of families apprehended at the southern border on the rise, family separations are reportedly still occurring.
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Amid mounting public pressure, President Trump on June 20 signed an executive order directing his administration to end family separations.
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Clinton pushed back on all of those points, saying the separations are required by no law and grounded in no religion.
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The confusion in the House is unfolding as tensions are running high over the debate on family separations at the border.
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There have been joyful greetings, prolonged separations, and more than one miraculous saving (direwolves may be cuddly, but they are fierce).
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DHS, stung by the fallout over family separations, has been wary of public backlash for targeting families, according to the official.
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Earlier last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was confronted at a Mexican restaurant by left-wing activists protesting family separations.
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Thousands of people protested the Trump administration&aposs family separations in Portland, Oregon, and across the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington.
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco to oppose the Trump administration&aposs family separations at the border.
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The separations were the result of a "zero tolerance" Justice Department policy, but were suspended by an executive order last week.
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Like Benioff, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella distanced the company from family separations and did not say it would cancel its contracts.
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Such pressure tactics are common in legislative horse trading, but the family separations are now widely viewed as beyond the pale.
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As they confirm additional separations, officials will provide a list of parents and children to ACLU attorneys on a rolling basis.
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The proposal also does not address family separations at the border, which have become a lightning rod issue for the administration.
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During that time her office released a very middle-of-the-road statement on family separations, which ultimately left her alone.
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But despite this victory, it seems Democratic and progressive outrage over family separations has only grown more vitriolic and high-profile .
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Fitch believes legacy liabilities from Tyco's past separations are manageable due to previous actions to address asbestos and income tax litigation.
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Sabraw later ordered the government to reunite the families as part of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU over family separations.
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The government says the policy officially began May 5 — though there is much evidence that family separations had begun far earlier.
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Sessions announced the zero tolerance immigration policy in April 2018, and the family separations crisis became a public scandal that summer.
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The zero tolerance policy led to family separations after parents were transferred into criminal custody, where children could not be placed.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order addressing border separations, but the practical effect of that order remains unclear.
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Piedad learned about the forced family separations in the US from the women she shared a cell with during that time.
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The government's statistics show that "law enforcement" separations accounted for the overwhelming majority of cases: 225 of 245, or 92 percent.
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President Donald Trump holds up the executive order he signed on border separations at the White House on June 20, 2018.
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So what are the kind of things that you're seeing in terms of the effects of the detention and the separations?
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Cummings' and Nadler's offices both said the family separations policy will also be a priority for them in their respective committees.
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Perhaps most famously, Sessions was the architect of the "zero tolerance" border policy that led to family separations (which infuriated progressives).
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Amid public backlash against family separations, Trump issued an executive order purporting to put a stop to them in June 2018.
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The separations were in place from early May until Trump stopped the practice last month in the face of intense criticism.
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They were watching Spanish-language television when they learned of the Trump administration&aposs announcement that it would end mass separations.
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The AGs in June filed their lawsuit, which, like the ACLU case, challenges the administration's family separations and other immigration policies.
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Court orders in an ongoing lawsuit over family separations have forced officials to identify and reunify a majority of those separated.
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" Now that she's in a marriage that will no doubt endure long separations, she says, "we're just gonna make it work.
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Correction: This story has been updated to reflect an adjustment to StreetAccount's figures on December's separations rate in the JOLTS report.
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Senate Republican leaders said they would like to address family separations soon — even in a "matter of days," Cornyn said Tuesday.
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In many cases these separations are effective; however, recent attacks have shown that vulnerabilities do indeed exist and are being exploited.
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But if it fails on the floor, Valadao said he's prepared to back a standalone measure dealing only with family separations.
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The chaos caused by the separations has raised fears that some children might not be reunited with their parents at all.
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Trump later signed an executive order to halt the separations after claiming for days that only Congress could address the issue.
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Staff at Bethany and the foster families we partner with are picking up the pieces caused by distressing separations every day.
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"Any number of breakups or separations cannot take away the joy and the experience of being in love," writes Mragank Yadav.
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Senate Republicans this week expressed support for a bill that would end the family separations before Trump signed his executive order.
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It was, it's noted, not the first time he had strayed from his wife (Vera Farmiga), including separations in the past.
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The Trump administration has faced overwhelming backlash for the policy, which led to more than 2,000 separations between April and May.
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After Trump ended the family separations, Ivanka later said they were a "low point" in her time in the White House.
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In his opening remarks, Cummings called out the Trump administration for not responding to congressional requests for information on family separations.
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Trump was forced to ostensibly end family separations (it continues) and many children have yet to be reunited with their parents.
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The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy against those crossing into the US illegally has resulted in a spike of family separations.
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Those who were shocked to hear audio of wailing toddlers and see images of family separations haven't been paying close attention.
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Trump on Tuesday sought to dodge responsibility for the separations, insisting that the Obama administration had implemented a similar policy first.
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According to a Pew Research Center poll, Democrats enjoyed a 14-point advantage in handling immigration before the family separations started.
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The separations are the end result of the administration's "zero tolerance" policy of criminally charging people who cross the border illegally.
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The new executive order does nothing to change the "zero tolerance" approach that led to the separations in the first place.
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Palantir has repeatedly denied that its technology is being used by the part of ICE that handles family separations and deportations.
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The separations were conducted by Customs and Border Protection so adults could be transferred to Department of Justice custody for prosecution.
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Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux's different lifestyles — and long separations — played a role in the couple's decision to end their marriage.
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Kids under age five must be returned within two weeks, and no more separations can occur, ordered Judge Dana M. Sabraw.
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Border separations for specific reasons — for example, if the parent had a serious criminal history — happened before Trump got into office.
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Reuters reported that around 13 percent of family separations in the 17-month period through February were because of alleged fraud.
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Just after noon Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order to put an end to new family separations at the border.
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He enjoyed the mixed crowds that came together at loft parties more than the separations that existed in the Gay Village.
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These separations, which involve months of planning and dozens of procedures, are among the most challenging in any field of medicine.
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Public outcry over family separations at the border has risen in recent days as children's experiences in custody have been documented.
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He was involved in the White House's controversial "zero tolerance" policy that led to family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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In an average month, there are 1.5 million "involuntary" job separations (as opposed to voluntary quits), or 75,000 per working day.
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The Health and Human Services inspector general recently released a report detailing the toll the separations had taken on the children.
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He played a crucial role in the Family Separations policy, which wreaked horror on children and resulted in an international backlash.
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The numbers appear in the latest federal court filing in the American Civil Liberties Union's class-action case over family separations.
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The spike in family crossings has followed Trump's move in June to reverse his administration's policy that led to family separations.
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It was members of my union, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, who demanded our airlines stop participating in family separations.
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And a federal judge last month ruled that this group should be included in the class-action lawsuit over family separations.
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In a statement to Motherboard, Microsoft, which works with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said it was "dismayed" by the separations.
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The government received more than 4,500 complaints in the past four years, with a rise during the Trump administration's family separations.
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Do you agree with the White House position that it's on Congress alone to stop the family separations at the border?
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Different words, different pronunciations, and different spellings have created two distinct separations in the English language: British English and American English.
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THERE'S PERFORMANCE RELATED AND CHOICE RELATED VOLUNTARY SEPARATIONS AND INVOLUNTARY SEPARATIONS, THERE'S SOME SITE CLOSURES, WE HAVE ACQUIRED A LOT OF BUILDINGS AND A LOT OF LOCATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD, A LOT OF THEM THROUGH ACQUISITIONS THAT HAVE NOW BECOME ISOLATED AND WE'RE GOING TO TRY – TEAMS THAT ARE CO-LOCATED WORK MUCH MORE EFFICIENTLY.
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And the argument that decriminalizing illegal border crossings is the only way to stop family separations ignores the fact that current laws have been on the books for almost a century and the shameful increase in family separations is the direct result of a Trump administration policy which no other president has enforced with the same enthusiasm.
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What's next: The American Civil Liberties Union, which is challenging the separations, asked a judge in San Diego to clarify a set of standards for such separations that would ensure that children are taken from their parents only when there is evidence that the parent is a genuine danger to the child or is unfit to provide care.
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Trump's standard move when he's been asked about family separations in recent months has been to deflect by trying to blame Obama.
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Republicans have several immigration bills on the table that would address the issue of family separations, but they come at a cost.
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The separations stem from a policy that turns all cases of people trying to enter the country illegally over for criminal prosecution.
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Trump: 'I'll be signing something' on family separations President says move will be 'somewhat preemptive' and 'matched by legislation' on border policy.
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Cummings tend to his own district instead of criticizing the situation at the southern border (people locked in cages, child separations, etc.).
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Democrats think they can make hay with the fact that DACA and the DREAMers haven&apost been legalized and the family separations.
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Administration officials were unable to clarify whether family separations would end immediately or when and how families now separated would be reunited.
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If anybody wants to look to who to blame about child separations on the border, Congress needs to look in the mirror.
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A test of "zero tolerance" along one sector of the border in summer 220 led to an unknown number of family separations.
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Evangelical Christian leaders -- who stood with Trump through Stormy Daniels and the "Access Hollywood" tape -- began to publicly criticize the family separations.
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Amending the so-called Flores settlement was a key part of President Donald Trump's executive order ending the practice of family separations.
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Video Earlier last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was confronted at a Mexican restaurant by left-wing activists protesting family separations.
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Now, the U.S. government has been working to implement President Donald Trump&aposs executive order to end family separations at the border.
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Total hires for the month fell from October by 2312,2000 to 23.9 million, while separations also dropped by 114,000 to 5.5 million.
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The separations were in place from early May until Trump stopped the practice last month in the face of intense global criticism.
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Here's the thing, though: It was not immediately clear to what extent the order will actually halt separations in the long term.
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The case faded quickly from the news, overwhelmed by fury over the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy and the resulting family separations.
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Google and its leaders had voiced their strong opposition to the Muslim travel ban and family separations occurring at the Mexico border.
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Buttigieg wants to evaluate ICE and CBP policies to ensure there will be no future family separations along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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While anger about family separations raged on, Melania Trump hosted Queen Letizia of Spain for tea at the White House on Tuesday.
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This was due to a lack of record-keeping and poor communication among all of the federal agencies involved in the separations.
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Separations of families that aren't simply parent-child, though, aren't included in the court order — or counted in separation statistics at all.
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The debate over family separations drew in current and former presidential wives, including Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, who condemned the practice.
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McAleenan also told Holt that while the policy resulting in family separations had a deterring effect, the surrounding controversy rendered it unproductive.
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"Houellebecq talks about a grammar of images, treating images like words in paragraphs and chapters, and rooms like chapter separations," explains Fischman.
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Late last month, Sabraw ordered a nationwide halt to family separations, which Trump effectively did on June 20 following an international outcry.
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However, other sources close to Affleck and Shookus maintain that the two were just friends and didn't date before their respective separations.
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If Sabraw doesn't intercede on the ACLU's behalf, family reunification could be followed very swiftly by family deportations and family re-separations.
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The new numbers appear in the latest federal court filing in the American Civil Liberties Union class action case over family separations.
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The official, however, did not confirm whether any of the separations occurred in the last three months of former President Obama's administration.
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The issue was thrust into the spotlight after the Trump administration implemented its "zero tolerance" policy, leading to thousands of family separations.
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Trump last Wednesday signed an executive order to halt the separations after days of claiming only Congress could act on the issue.
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As reported by PEOPLE, the pair's different lifestyles — and long separations — played a role in the couple's decision to end their marriage.
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The decline comes after a rough summer at the White House, underscored by blowback over the family separations policy and persistent controversies.
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Critics of swapping separations for family detention say the asylum process is lengthy, and in some cases could lead to indefinite detention.
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The policy resulted in the separation of hundreds of migrant families before Trump signed an executive order in June ending the separations.
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The over-the-top kabuki-theater-type "coverage" of family separations at the border acts more as undisguised activism than objective reporting.
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After facing intense criticism for his administration's policy, Trump moved to end migrant family separations by signing an executive order on Wednesday.
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On top of repeated deployments and long separations you also have to cope with frequent moves – typically, every two to three years.
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Family separations The deadline for the Trump administration to reunite immigrant families it separated at the Mexican border has come and gone.
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The shutdown, along with the president's inhumane immigration policies and horrific family separations and child detention, actually embolden, enrich and protect traffickers.
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Trump signed an executive order Wednesday intended to end the family separations but it's unclear how families already divided will be reunited.
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Heller previously said he doesn't support the family separations but that it was up to Congress, rather than Trump, to halt them.
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Rosen has also released a Spanish-language television ad airing during the World Cup that highlights the family separations on the border.
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Members of Congress have introduced legislation to end the practice of separating families, while simultaneously urging Trump to unilaterally stop the separations.
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A top Trump administration official confirmed Tuesday that family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border will serve to deter future illegal immigration.
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Those plans stem from the executive order Trump signed last week to end the separations of families who enter the country illegally.
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Administration officials initially acknowledged the measure could lead to family separations, a practice which they said could deter future illegal immigration attempts.
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The ACLU asked a federal judge to block the administration from continuing with any separations, which they said defied the court order.
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His proposed executive actions would end family separations at the border and remove the fear of deportation for Dreamers and TPS beneficiaries.
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Religious leaders, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Franklin Graham, a key Trump ally, also faulted the morality of the separations last week.
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Speaking after visiting McAllen several Democrats expressed anger at the family separations and called on the Trump administration to change its policy.
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Doctors, religious leaders, the United Nations and politicians on both sides of the aisle have criticized the administration's use of family separations.
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John Kasich pushed back against family separations by the Trump administration Tuesday, lamenting that people were denying the humanity of undocumented immigrants.
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Hogan Gidley White House spokesman Hogan Gidley was asked on NPR on Tuesday whether the President would act to end the separations.
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The separations took place in west Texas in 2017, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said in a letter to Sen.
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Sessions has argued that while the policy would lead to more separations it would also deter future migrants from crossing the border.
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And I think that's why this issue, in some case when you talk about family separations, that doesn't become a partisan issue.
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Obama didn't engage in the cruel family separations and needless criminal prosecutions that have characterized the Trump administration's approach to border security.
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The survey was conducted before President Trump signed his executive order yesterday that's intended to stop the separations by detaining families together.
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At a number of points in the hearing, lawmakers asked officials to pinpoint what went wrong leading up to the family separations.
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DHS had previously said that separations continue to take place in cases when the parents have a criminal history or medical concerns.
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The 301-121 vote cleared the way for the House to debate an immigration measure more narrowly targeted at addressing family separations.
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Several governors have canceled or refused the deployment of their National Guard troops in response to the Trump administration's family separations policy.
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Feature Family separations, multibillion-dollar border-wall schemes, unleashed ICE officers —the Trump presidency has taught the Democrats what they stand against.
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This summer, barring a change in government practice, Gelernt expects to be back in court over this new wave of family separations.
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Since Mr. Trump ended the family separations under "zero tolerance" on June 20, about 2,700 children have been reunited with their parents.
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"My wife feels very strongly about it," Mr. Trump said as he signed an executive order on Wednesday to stop the separations.
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The separations have generated confusion and anguish for immigrants and their advocates, as well as border officials tasked with implementing the policy.
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The government passed its most explicit restrictions on black and brown lives during his adolescence, but his hometown didn't easily accommodate separations.
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"Without a reliable account of all family relationships, we could not validate the total number of separations, or reunifications," the IG wrote.
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Trump eventually signed an executive order designed to end family separations, but thousands of previously separated families have yet to be reunited.
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As for the parent-child separations: It's a result of a new policy announced this month by Jeff Sessions, the attorney general.
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In one scenario, the policy could become part of the ongoing lawsuit brought by the ACLU over family separations in San Diego.
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Acknowledging the modern plight of autonomy and so many separations, the poem then easily passes through them, breezing compliments and simple care.
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The government's response, the latest figures of separations, and the scope of the case is expected to come up during Thursday's hearing.
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Kathy Castor of Florida, White said he was unaware of communication among leadership about the family separations once they began taking place.
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For the month of June, the Labor Department reported hires and separations were little changed at 5.4 million and 5.2 million, respectively.
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The spike in family crossings has followed Trump's move in June to reverse his administration's "zero policy" that led to family separations.
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Trump wanted families separated even if they were apprehended within the US. He thinks the separations work to deter migrants from coming.
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Child Separations Under Nielsen's leadership, thousands of families along the southern border were separated, sparking an uproar across the country last year.
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Lloyd and White are also slated to testify at a separate hearing at the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday about family separations.
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The president last week issued an executive order seeking to bring family separations to an end, but saying little about reuniting families.
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In phrasing the issue this way, she's echoing her husband's false assertion that laws that Democrats are leading to the family separations.
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The separations were in place from early May until Trump stopped the practice in June in the face of intense global criticism.
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A test of "zero tolerance" along one sector of the border in summer 2017 led to an unknown number of family separations.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar refused to testify, and officials still haven't revealed when family separations started happening en masse.
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In short, Trump didn't end family separations because of humanitarian concerns about an Obama-era policy, as he now wants people to believe.
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From his repeal of DACA to his policy of child separations, Latino voters are expressing an all-time high in terms of anger.
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Washington, California, New Jersey and at least eight other states have also announced plans to sue the administration over the separations this week.
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The crowd provided a refrain of "shame" as an organizer ran down a list of people marchers are blaming for the family separations.
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They want to ignore separations of powers, co-equal branches, they side foreign law, and they literally want things legislated from the bench.
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But the ambitions of the Trump administration&aposs favored candidate could be clouded by U.S. policies like travel bans and migrant family separations.
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Marsha Blackburn pointed the finger Tuesday at "liberals" and "liberal judges," blaming them for the family separations underway at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Oliver had been painting murals throughout the country, but this one would have special meaning because of his son's interest in family separations.
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It's certainly your right to cancel over the owner's political views but don't think you are contributing to border separations if you don't.
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President Trump blamed the separations at the border on Democrats, falsely saying they were happening because of a law created by the Democrats.
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"As long as the zero tolerance policy is in place separations can happen every day and we must all keep vigilant," Olivares said.
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And in kind of light of these separations because it's sort of threw a bomb in the middle of the normal immigration process.
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After he initially blamed family separations on Democrats, Trump signed an executive order on June 20 that would, in theory, reunite the families.
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If it had been, the number of family separations would double, the chief of the Border Patrol's busiest station told the Washington Post.
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But if we can devise efficient chemical separations, the thought of recycling a wide variety of rare earths starts to become less onerous.
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The Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general said in a January report that the administration began ramping up separations in 2017.
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With their relationship already showing signs of strain, and after a few brief separations, Gardner chose to have an abortion in late-1952.
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HOMAN: Of course, I am going to talk about Governor Cuomo real quick what ICE has done on the border about family separations.
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I know this all sounds like a foreign language now that the world is digital, but we'd do our own color separations, too.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler cited the documents detailing alleged family separations that were obtained by the committee during a panel hearing.
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Homeland Security had previously said that separations continue to take place in cases when the parents have a criminal history or medical concerns.
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For the month of March, the Labor Department reported hires and separations were also little changed at 5.3 million and 5.1 million, respectively.
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The policy sparked outrage from both parties and President Trump last week reversed his stance, signing an executive order ending the child separations.
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The practice drew widespread backlash from Democrats and Republicans who called the family separations "cruel" and "immoral," demanding that the policy be reversed.
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The separations are a consequence of the administration's decision to impose a "zero tolerance" approach on people suspected of crossing the border illegally.
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It included the papering over of the Jamal Khashoggi murder, disregard of the court-ordered end to family separations, and on and on.
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Most children come without parents... Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order halting migrant family separations that resulted from his "zero tolerance" policy.
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The film begins at the end of a love story—after marriage, parenthood, and separations (plural)—in a rehabilitation center in Southern France.
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The studio and the garden, side by side and mutually visible, form an image of the dilemma and the tenuousness of its separations.
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" He added that the separations had "crystallized" for many advisory council members "profound doubts about the administration's commitment to the rule of law.
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He's advocated for legislation that ties "border security" to ending family separations at the border and giving "long-term stability" to Dreamers. Rep.
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That means the real focus of the week is the more tailored effort to address family separations -- and whether there is bipartisan support.
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Seventeen states and Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Trump administration over the separations of migrant families at the border.
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And the separations issue is not the first time a President who prides himself on a strongman's image has seemed to lack compassion.
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After widespread outrage over family separations, President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to keep parents and kids together in detention.
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Of the separations, which span from June 22017 through November 22018, there were 2703 children and 231 adults separated from their family members.
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She said she's been talking about family separations with her children and they now ask to pray for the separated kids at bedtime.
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The issue of family separations has quickly overshadowed another immigration debate on Capitol Hill -- and become yet another political headache for Republican leaders.
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Seeking to stem the controversy, President Trump last week signed an executive order intended to end family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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His former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, perpetuated the message that for some Trump supporters stories of the forced separations should be callously dismissed.
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After modifications, both bills would now end the practice of family separations, giving the President a face saving way out of the controversy.
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Several White House officials advised the President to accept a stand alone bill addressing family separations or some other solution to this issue.
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The current enthusiasm for Glass-Steagall separations appears to be nostalgia, combined with a desperation to find a way of preventing future crises.
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Trump presided over the separations of hundreds of kids from their undocumented migrant parents and secured a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
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The child separations stem from the Justice Department's decision in April to prosecute illegal border crossers to the fullest extent of the law.
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Homeland Security secretary Kevin McAleenan testified to Congress in July that the separations were "extraordinarily rare" and "in the interest of the child."
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As NBC News outlines, the separations were never enacted as policy and in the instances where it did occur, it was remedied quickly.
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The separations had occurred as part of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy of prosecuting all adults illegally crossing the country's southern border.
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Members of Congress have also introduced legislation to end the practice of separating families, while simultaneously urging Trump to unilaterally stop the separations.
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Warren's response was scathing: "You see the videos of some of these children being returned to their parents after long separations," she said.
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Salesforce is one of several companies that have denounced the separations, but continue to do business with government agencies involved in border policies.
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Speaking to House Republicans at the Capitol last evening, President Trump admitted the political pressure over family separations at the border is growing.
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Such separations may increase children's risk for developing depression, anxiety, separation-related post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms ("traumatic separation") or other trauma reactions.
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The family separations and the detention of thousands of children, mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, prompted widespread condemnation of Trump's policy.
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She had reportedly pushed back on the president's wishes to reinstate family separations, and Miller called her "too weak" to handle the position.
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I asked him once how he even ventured to begin performing craniopagus separations -- and surprisingly, his answer wasn't one of pride or confidence.
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Thirty-four firms signed onto an op-ed he wrote with Mr. Wingens in The New York Times this summer denouncing family separations.
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The separations were denounced as cruel by politicians on both sides of the aisle, every living former First Lady, and the United Nations.
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Mr. Trump did not directly address the family separations on Sunday, saying only that Democrats should work with Republicans on border security legislation.
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"The reason for these separations is a zero tolerance policy for their parents, who are accused of illegally crossing our borders," she wrote.
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Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, deplored separations on Sunday, except in cases where there is evidence of abuse or another good reason.
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It is not clear whether the judge will grant the administration's request, raising the possibility that family separations may resume in mid-July.
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It is long past time that we end the destructive patterns of family separations that have been a part of our nation's history.
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After sending an email with concerns about family separations, a superior told the employee their apprehensions shouldn't have been put in an email.
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The GAO also found that Border Patrol agents inconsistently recorded information about the reasons for and circumstances surrounding family separations on required forms.
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Last year, the Trump administration was criticized for its "zero tolerance policy" that led to thousands of family separations at the US border.
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While classical blockchain doesn't allow these kinds of separations, Xage felt it was necessary to deal with its particular kind of use case.
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He has differed with Trump, and former first lady Laura Bush rebuked the Trump administration's family separations at the US border this summer.
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Trump signed an executive order in June halting the separations, and the administration has since reunited more than 1,800 children and their parents.
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And last month US District Judge Dana Sabraw ruled that those families should be included in the class action lawsuit over family separations.
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Tim Wu's 2010 book "The Master Switch" proposes a "Separations Principle" that would include forced breakups of monopolies, but only in information industries.
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Those incidents followed days of mounting headlines about the Trump administration's immigration policy that resulted in family separations at the southern US border.
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News of migrant family separations by American immigration authorities reached a fever pitch this summer following the issuance of the zero-tolerance memo.
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They come as the Trump administration considers a new pilot program that could result in the separations of kids and parents once again.
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She rebuffed Trump's order to shut down the border crossing at El Paso, Texas, and bring back the family separations policy for migrants.
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Thomas Homan, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), addressed critics on Friday attacking his agency over migrant family separations.
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Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he would like to see the Senate unanimously pass legislation to prevent family separations.
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Republican and Democratic senators alike agreed that the separations were inhumane, and subsequent efforts to reunite the families had been haphazard at best.
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Nielsen insisted that Congress could close "loopholes" that lead to separations when the administration seeks to prosecute parents for entering the U.S. illegally.
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The President wanted families separated even if they were apprehended within the US. He thinks the separations work to deter migrants from coming.
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And when the president did end the separations and of course there are still separations to be reunited, instead of the press saying, "Well, you know, no at least he&aposs doing the right thing," in their view, it was, "Well it&aposs too late, he should have done this", you know, they never give him the befit of the doubt.
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New York Times: "Leading Republicans Join Democrats in Pushing Trump to Halt Family Separations" Associated Press: "Family Separation Policy Starts Dividing Republicans" Washington Post: "White House insists Democrats to blame for family separations, een as some in GOP urge Trump to reverse course" These headlines are creating a false impression that there is a serious Republican divide on the family separation policy.
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Ted Cruz, R-Texas announced a plan to introduce comprehensive "emergency legislation" designed to end unnecessary separations of illegal immigrant children from their parents.
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Democrats have long pushed back on the administration's immigration policies but tensions have escalated in the past month over family separations at the border.
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Nielsen and other Trump administration officials say the separations are necessary to enforce immigration laws and have called on Congress to change the laws.
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O&aposSteen and Dannenfelser commented after their groups&apos silence on the separations was criticized in an opinion piece in The New York Times.
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That policy led to family separations, but Trump backed off with an executive order earlier this week allowing families to stay together during proceedings.
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The president continues to falsely blame Democrats for the separations, but in fact they are occurring as a direct result of his administration's policies.
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It is, in fact, the zero-tolerance policy that has created the separations — a policy Trump could end as quickly as he started it.
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"The Trump Administration's child separations were more harmful, traumatic, and chaotic than previously known," the report compiled by the Democrat-led oversight committee said.
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Since then, a growing number of Democratic lawmakers and candidates have backed the position, frustrated with the stories of family separations at the border.
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We're in the second week of the child separations story being the story, and there is seemingly no end to the confusion and chaos.
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The lawsuits don't stop there: Seventeen states and the District of Columbia are suing Trump over family separations and the treatment of asylum-seekers.
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Because people are gonna keep coming right and then you're also going to have your going to keep having family separations to some degree.
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So with a lump in my throat, I went searching for the worst-case scenario: folks whose relationships had indeed ended with pet separations.
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Their story had betrayal, and separations, getting together again, having a baby, then divorcing and really falling out horribly, then leaving the country separately.
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Trump has only escalated the divisions, by throwing to Congress the need to solve the issue of DACA and family separations at the border.
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By Thursday afternoon, it was clear that Trump had not so much changed course on the family separations issue as beaten a tactical retreat.
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That police had led to the separation of thousands of children from their parents before the Trump administration halted the separations in late June.
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January's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed a separations rate of 3.4 percent versus a revised 3.6 percent in December, according to StreetAccount.
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As child detentions and family separations become a national flashpoint, lawmakers are scrambling to find some kind of narrow fix for the border crisis.
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A group of Republican senators led by Cornyn, the No. 2 Senate Republican, are also working to draft legislation that would address family separations.
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On Wednesday, the president signed an executive order halting the family separations while mandating that the prosecutions of all illegal border crossers would continue.
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The new numbers show just how much federal agencies were scrambling to implement the administration's "zero tolerance" policy, which resulted in the family separations.
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Amid pushback from Republicans, Democrats, current and former first ladies, and international officials, President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday halting family separations.
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It's still possible the House could seek to take action on a narrower measure aimed at ending those separations, though the form is unclear.
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Behind these photos of bell-bottoms, Afros, birthday parties and interiors rich with period detail lay the invisible stories of evictions, dispossessions or separations.
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Comparable statistics from previous administrations aren't available because the blanket practice was not in place and separations were more sporadic, according to immigration experts.
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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have expressed outrage over the separations, which come as the House continues its debate over immigration legislation.
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Sabraw ordered the government last month to stop most immigrant family separations at the border and reunite the families it had already split up.
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Meanwhile, HHS Secretary Alex Azar began to answer questions at public events and congressional hearings as his agency's role in the separations became clear.
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"I'll be signing something in a little while that's going to do that," Trump said Wednesday in reference to family separations at the border.
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On Wednesday, the President signed an executive order to halt the family separations caused by his administration's policy, but questions about family reunification remain.
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The current crisis at the border caused by Trump's policy of forced family separations is a mix of incompetence, immorality, carelessness, cluelessness and callousness.
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Democrats have also expressed concerns about Kraninger's connection to controversial administration policies, including the family separations that stemmed from Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy.
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The president, in a rare reversal, signed an executive order last week ending family separations to ease criticism on his administration for the policy.
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers, celebrities and religious leaders have joined the chorus of people who have criticized the separations of children from their families.
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Watters's remark arrives as the Trump administration continues to face opposition over its immigration policies, which have resulted in the separations of migrant families.
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Not only did the family separations practice cause widespread outrage, it has also led to an ongoing legal battle to reunify the separated children.
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It's unclear what the prior levels of family separation were before fiscal year 2017, DHS says, because records of family separations were not tracked.
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The Trump administration faced widespread criticism earlier this year for forced separations and detentions of families caused by the administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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A judge ruled in March that the families counted in the watchdog report should be included in the class action lawsuit over family separations.
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Because of Geo Group's association with family separations, Lancaster County, Pa., rejected a proposal from the corporation to take over prison re-entry services.
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The protesters blasted family separations at the border brought on by President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy of prosecuting anyone crossing the southern border illegally.
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The CEO is in the middle of a strategic review of the company that could lead to other segment separations before the company stabilizes.
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" Former Republican officials Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNN's "New Day" on Monday that the separations amount to an "atrocious policy.
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He added that Trump should look at the "optics" of family separations and suggested they would hurt Republicans in the midterm elections this November.
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who has criticized the Trump administration over family separations, said he had no plans to interfere with the peaceful protests.
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At times last month, it seemed that blanket television coverage of the human toll of separations would inflict irreversible political damage on the administration.
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Trump again blamed Democrats for the problem, though the separations are a result of a directive issued by his own administration earlier this year.
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Trump, bowing to bipartisan pressure, attempted to ease criticism for his administration's policy last week by signing an executive order to halt family separations.
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Trump signed an executive order Thursday to prevent the separations, but he and GOP lawmakers say legislation is needed to permanently solve the issue.
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In the end, he persuaded her, but their marriage continued to be marked by numerous separations and trials, including chronic infidelities on his part.
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Said Deep, a company spokesman, said the reshuffling "has resulted in some separations of salaried employees and the reassignment of others," according to Reuters.
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This time, she tracked the dreams of twenty-nine women, nineteen of whom started off depressed, through the first five months of their separations.
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When Trump blamed Democrats for last week's immigration crisis, it was relatively easy to show how his own policies led directly to family separations.
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"85033 Minutes" obtained a full memo that showed the goal of the family separations was to "deter" more immigrants from coming into the country.
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Separations of families increased under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, which aims to prosecute all adults illegally crossing U.S. borders, including asylum seekers.
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United States District Court Judge Dana Sabraw granted the American Civil Liberties Union a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed over the family separations.
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President Trump caved to public pressure and ended the family separations less than two weeks ago, but about 2,000 children remain in federal custody.
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His staff convinced him that parental separations had become common enough that children needed to understand how to deal with the potentially traumatic experience.
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Speaking with Ms. Acevedo helped fill out my understanding of one of the most inscrutable parts of the Trump administration's experiment with family separations.
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He also opposed the Trump administration's family separations policy during the crisis at the Mexican border; Florida has a large bloc of Hispanic voters.
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He eventually relented and moved to halt the family separations, though the government struggled in some cases to reunite those it had already separated.
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He has also joined with other progressive leaders who want to abolish the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency after the family separations crisis.
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And almost all of the factories inspected by the Accord lacked adequate fire doors and lack of fire separations between floors, the report states.
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Last year, community outrage over new federal border policies and family separations prompted the board to reject those funds, The Arizona Daily Star reported.
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It has used family separations and prosecutions as a way to discourage those with a mind to try to relocate to the United States.
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In issuing its executive order ending the separations, the administration has asked a judge to overturn the agreement, but she has not yet acted.
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Separations, transformations and rejoins are always performed in front of the spectators, a circumstance which requires absolute preciseness in all phases of the display.
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Demonstrators traveling to McAllen to protest the family separations when I was there in late June were asked to wear red, white and blue.
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President Trump feigned sympathy for the separations but claimed he was the victim of "bad legislation passed by the Democrats," which nobody could find.
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The entire Senate Democratic caucus is backing a bill by Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, that would limit family separations at the border.
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" — Corey Lewandowski, a Trump surrogate, mocking family separations on Tuesday "My babies started crying when they found out we were going to be separated.
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Trump keeps lying about it, trying to distort reality and claim that the separations are a result of a "law" made by the Democrats.
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In the Senate, Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein have long butted heads, but they're leading the effort to address family separations at the border.
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The GAO also found an additional 10 children among the 40 whose family separations were not documented in Border Patrol's data system as required.
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But Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, insisted that President Trump should use his executive authority, not legislation, to quickly end the family separations.
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I tell them in Spanish that I'm a lawyer working on family separations and that I can try to help get their children back.
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YANG'S INTEREST IN contentious borders — of nations, between neighbors and within one's self — stems partly from the series of separations that marked her childhood.
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The report, which shows openings, hirings and separations, provides more details about what is happening in the job market than the monthly jobs report.
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Mr. Tillerson noted that the standoff has already had serious humanitarian consequences, including food shortages, family separations and children being pulled out of school.
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"In short, the report casts serious doubt on the accuracy of the government's accounting of separations," a motion from the ACLU tp Sabraw states.
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Sabraw issued a preliminary injunction last June blocking most family separations at the US-Mexico border and ordering that those already separated be reunited.
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A particularly difficult issue has been the more than 400 parents the government deported without their children before the separations and deportations were halted.
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The president has held mostly steady among Latinos despite his harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric and controversial policies such as family separations at the border.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general said in a January report that the administration began ramping up separations in 2017.
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The Texas Democrat argues that these separations boil down to more than just partisan politics — it's also on the shoulders of the American people.
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But that the separations happened at all, and that millions of Americans were perfectly fine with them, is something that should trouble us all.
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Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, said she had warned during the campaign that Trump&aposs hard-line immigration stance would result in family separations.
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The House of Representatives planned to vote on Thursday on two bills designed to halt family separations and address a range of other immigration issues.
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For continued inspiration we'll revisit some of the breakups in film and pop culture that helped to shape the way we perceive separations and endings.
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Managers will assess their staff needs after they see how many people volunteer to retire and decide on "involuntary separations" after that, the company said.
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In Indianapolis, Scott Burns holds his daughter, Annelle, during a protest of the administration's approach to illegal border crossings and family separations at the border.
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The letter uses research to demonstrate how the separations can induce trauma in children and lead to a number of negative consequences as they grow.
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The statement reflects a renewed administration effort to defend the tough enforcement policy, amid the outcry over since-halted family separations that resulted from it.
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LOS FRESNOS, Texas – Attorneys for immigrant parents who have been split up from their children are calling attention to an overlooked effect of the separations.
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Trump listens as Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen addresses members before the signing of an executive order ending family separations at the border June 20.
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On Wednesday, he renounced his membership in the Republican Party — because of President Donald Trump's policy of forced family separations at the US-Mexico border.
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Also little changed were the 5 million separations in May, a 3.4 percent rate, with 2.9 million quits and 1.7 million layoffs, the survey said.
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But advocates argue that some of the continued separations for often murky "law enforcement purposes" do violate the order to keep parents and children together.
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Facing intense criticism as the number of separated families grew, Trump on June 20 signed an executive order that he said would address border separations.
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Late last month, Waters encouraged people to confront and protest members of the Trump administration while speaking a rally against family separations at the border.
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Democratic officials pledged to sue last week as President Donald Trump faced growing public pressure to address the spike in family separations at the border.
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CEOs from across the industry have called for the White House to stop the separations, including leaders from Apple, Google, Uber, and even Microsoft itself.
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Huo Zhihu of China Securities Credit Rating, a domestic ratings agency, was quoted by the magazine as saying that such separations were "just a formality".
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It's unclear whether she ever vehemently opposes him — it's always a whisper in the wings, just like when she finally spoke up about family separations.
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The separations were part of President Donald Trump's efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, though some of the separated families are also asylum seekers.
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In the fact sheet released on Monday, Hargan said loopholes in immigration law had driven the surge in separations of unaccompanied children and their families.
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When fathers experienced a larger decline in their testosterone after the separations with their crying infant, they used more sensitive parenting in the teaching tasks.
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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in the House and Senate have condemned the separations and expressed support for legislation that would end them.
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Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former President Clinton, on Wednesday mocked congressional Republicans amid the ongoing national outrage over immigrant family separations at the border.
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On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order to halt family separations, stating that detained immigrant families would be kept together as they await court proceedings.
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To his credit, Hewitt pressed Sessions on the family separations, asking the attorney general if he could imagine his grandchildren being taken from their parents.
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More Republicans agreed with the statement than Democrats, with 46 percent of Republicans saying they supported the separations and 32 percent saying they did not.
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Moderate members of the Senate gathered on Wednesday to discuss a compromise bill on the issue of family separations after Trump signed his executive order.
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"Our country is still reeling from the horror of family separations that occurred at the border," Jayapal said at the opening her line of questioning.
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And even as family separations at the border, racist rallies, travel bans and bigoted slurs remain part of our cultural landscape, our transformation rolls on.
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The family separations are a result of the Trump administration's zero tolerance immigration policy that requires apprehended immigrant adults to be prosecuted by federal authorities.
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Though the president signed an executive order to halt family separations, the administration has been criticized for not working quickly enough to reunite the families.
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Calls to do so picked up during the controversy surrounding the separations of parents from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this summer.
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But immigrant rights groups and other advocates claim separations are still taking place under claims that children are in danger and need to be separated.
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The activist who climbed the Statue of Liberty to protest family separations last year was sentenced to five years of probation Tuesday, BuzzFeed News reported.
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The uncertainty could deepen later Thursday if the House of Representatives fails to pass two Republican immigration bills that could partially alleviate the separations drama.
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Trump on Wednesday reversed his debunked argument that he had no authority to stop separations, signing an executive order to keep parents and kids together.
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Trump, bowing to intensifying pressure from both sides of the aisle to stop such separations, signed an executive order on Wednesday to halt the practice.
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Amid growing furor over the family separations, President Donald Trump reversed course and signed an executive order to keep parents and kids together on Wednesday.
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Woods says she's tried to discuss the family separations with her five-year-old by explaining that some kids aren't allowed to see their parents.
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A nominee will face a contentious confirmation hearing in the Senate, where Republicans are wary about returning to the forced family separations of last summer.
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It's still possible the House could act on a narrower measure aimed at ending migrant family separations, although the form for that intervention is unclear.
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The president on Wednesday signed an executive order to halt family separations, despite repeatedly claiming that only Congress had the power to end the practice.
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The Justice Department formally requested some modifications from Gee after President Donald Trump directed them to in his executive order reversing course on family separations.
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The Trump administration's new zero-tolerance policy on illegal border crossings has led to a spike in prosecutions — and as a result, increased family separations.
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While Giuliani's interview style has recently been defined by bellicose attacks on Trump's enemies, he struck an empathetic note on the question of family separations.
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The Trump administration identified those separations as having occurred between June of last year and earlier this month, CNN reported Thursday, citing a court filing.
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Adults being prosecuted are held in federal jail while awaiting trial, and children can't stay with their parents in federal jail, leading to family separations.
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Democrats opposed to both of the House bills have repeatedly noted that the family separations, at least, were just the result of the administration's decisions.
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The Democratic base was incensed over the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, which resulted in a spike in family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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As part of this policy, adults were held in federal jail while awaiting trial and their children were put in federal custody, forcing family separations.
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" The bottom line: "Yes, it's about how upset suburban professional women are, with regard to family separations at the border and Trump's temperament and behavior.
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The president eventually relented and moved to halt the family separations, though the government struggled in some cases to reunite those it had already separated.
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The number represents a dramatic uptick from the nearly 1,800 family separations that Reuters reported had happened from October 2016 through February of this year.
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Adding in workers who left their jobs for other reasons, such as retirement and disability, the number of job separations in January was 5.4 million.
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She checked the news on her phone constantly, watching CNN until she went to bed, hoping to find out when the family separations would end.
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The president issued an executive order last week aimed at ending family separations, but the government is struggling to reunite the families already broken apart.
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The report also found that senior HHS officials were reluctant to intercede in immigration law or pressed the issue of family separations in interagency forums.
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Family separations arise in part because of the new Trump administration policy, announced last month, of "zero tolerance" for people who cross the border illegally.
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Despite the President signing an executive order in June to stop family separations, mother and daughter have yet to be reunited, the court document says.
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Becerra cited HHS official Jonathan White's testimony at a recent congressional hearing, where White said he warned administration officials about any policy involving family separations.
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Reporters, photographers and videographers followed them though detentions, deportations, family separations and course changes, as well as hopeful, if fragile, beginnings in the United States.
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Every branch has provisions for separations when parting ways is in the military's best interest — the way it happened to Seaman John Burdette in 2014.
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Private detention center operators have profited from Trump's aggressive anti-immigration policies, which have led to large-scale detentions and separations of families, Warren said.
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That case was filed in March, before the zero tolerance policy was announced, but the ACLU is seeking a nationwide preliminary injunction to stop separations while families are in immigration detention, absent a finding that a parent is unfit or poses a danger to the child; the ACLU has asked for an order that would apply to separations that occurred after the zero tolerance policy was announced.
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RELATED: 'Zero tolerance' a year later: How the US family separations crisis erupted The filing, a regular status update submitted as part of the American Civil Liberties Union's lawsuit over separations of undocumented immigrant families, indicates that officials have made major headway in the court-ordered reunification process after months of efforts to track down hundreds of parents who were deported without their children.
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But so far, neither has supported legislation that would prevent family separations within 100 miles of the US border, except for instances of abuse or neglect.
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Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader from New York, is adamant that Trump can end the family separations on his own and that legislation is not needed.
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"Labor is scarce and separations are low as companies try and hang onto skilled labor," said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics in New York.
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The events came as news stories highlighting the family separations intensified political pressure on the White House, even from some of President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans.
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Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will introduce legislation this week aimed at stopping separations, mirroring a similar Senate bill sponsored by Democrat Dianne Feinstein.
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Another journalist asked Nielsen whether the family separations are intended to send a message to potential migrants, to deter them from crossing the border at all.
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Still, Sabraw said that despite their differences, both sides were "all rowing in the same direction" in their efforts to end family separations at the border.
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TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO STOP FAMILY SEPARATIONS AT BORDER Mattis said on Sunday that two bases had been selected, but he would not identify them.
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Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Monday announced a plan to introduce comprehensive "emergency legislation" designed to end unnecessary separations of illegal immigrant children from their parents.
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Trump did not go as far as some of her predecessors, though, and criticize the Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' policy that has led to the separations.
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It was the first concrete number from the government about the number of parents deported without their children during the spike in family separations in 2018.
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In a June 2018 interview on Fox News, then–attorney general Jeff Sessions was asked whether the policy that resulted in family separations was a deterrent.
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Nielsen signed off on the option to prosecute all adults who crossed the border illegally, including those with kids, knowing it would lead to family separations.
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As more stories of family separations at the border trickle out, many Americans are trying their best to fight the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy.
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JF: It has been a wild week following the story of Trump's zero tolerance immigration policy and the resulting separations between family members at the border.
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It's ground zero for the family separations because a lot of people come through the area and they have to go to the court house here.
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The idea of disbanding ICE has moved from the edge to the center of the political stage, especially in light of the border family separations story.
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Um, and it just sort of reminded me; I know you've been covering separations for much longer than the zero tolerance policy has been going on.
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The auto safety agency said Friday it has received four reports from owners reporting anchor cable separations with no warning after the recall had been completed.
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Without consulting her cabinet, let alone Parliament, she announced "red lines" for her negotiation with Brussels that put Britain on course for the fullest of separations.
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What they're saying: "The president made it very clear this week that we're not bringing back family separations," Pence told CNN on Friday, per the Hill.
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"Their work separations have taken a toll, and it is not likely that the marriage can be repaired enough to work right now," the source continues.
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A federal court had ordered family separations to end last year except in cases where a parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child.
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Excluding one-time items for employee separations and the sale of a Chinese joint venture, GM made 5 cents per share, soundly beating Wall Street estimates.
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During the interview, which aired on Sunday, Trump, 72, claimed that Stahl, 76, treated him unfairly when she pressed him about family separations at the border.
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Kelly said he has not issued a written directive outlining the policy to border agents, but has told employees that he must approve any such separations.
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The recent pattern of immigration raids, paired with family separations at the border, have prompted progressive Democrats and activists to call for ICE to be abolished.
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The practice led to the forced separation of hundreds of families before the president was forced to halt the separations by executive order amid severe backlash.
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Just after the plans for the march in D.C. were announced earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order to halt family separations at the border.
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Olayinka Akanle, a professor of sociology at the University of Ibadan, reckons that when things fall apart they demand separations more readily than in the north.
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The AP scoured hundreds of court documents and immigration records to reveal several cases of children being permanently, legally taken from their families after initial separations.
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The court proceeding followed a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the administration's zero tolerance border policy, which had led to the separations.
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The Texas Civil Rights Project said that nearly 300 family separations have occurred at or near McAllen, Texas since Trump signed the executive order last June.
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Kaine and Warner asked Wagner if any of the young migrants were transported to the center due to separations resulting from the "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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But the real pull comes from ordinary people's stories of difficult decisions, ambivalent separations, long decades lived with unanswered questions and a lingering sense of loss.
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"No children that were a part of the family separations are at the Tornillo facility," the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
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In the Senate, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is seeking their own narrow legislative option to more permanently end family separations, but those negotiations are ongoing.
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Nielsen took to Twitter to defend the policy late Sunday, saying members of Congress, the press and advocacy groups are "misreporting" the causes of family separations.
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"Our country is still reeling from the horror of family separations that occurred at the border," Jayapal said at the opening of her line of questioning.
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The president again blamed Democrats in Congress for the separations, even though it was a Trump administration directive — and not a law — that instituted the policy.
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" Hatch declined to weigh in on whether the President's tweet Tuesday morning -- using the language 'infest" to describe illegal immigrants -- dehumanized the issue of family separations.
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Her story is central to a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging family separations -- filed before the zero tolerance pilot was publicly known.
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"This is out of control," Homan said in a separate hearing in July, after an intense line of questioning about undocumented immigrant family separations from Democrats.
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The Flores agreement has become a crucible for the Trump administration as it seeks to deal with the fallout over family separations at the US border.
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Trump again falsely blamed Democrats for his administration's actions, and said they could put a stop to the family separations by working with Republicans in Congress.
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The tweet came shortly after American Airlines said it had asked the government not to use its planes for any transportation of migrant children facing separations.
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