Kensi Hernandez is 8 years old and has dreams of being a doctor. She’s quiet and shy, fidgeting with her bracelets as she talks. Source: CNN
The big business of housing immigrant children
As Juan Sanchez tells it, he spent years as the underpaid leader of the non-profit that is now providing housing to migrant children who were recently separated from their parents. Source: CNN
Opinion: Why separating kids from parents is a form of torture
The Trump administration’s family separation policy, which separated asylum-seeking parents from their children at the US border, may have just been stopped with the President’s executive order, but it doesn’t erase the psychological impact and biological damage that these migrants have already endured. If the new approach fails to pass legal scrutiny, a real possibility, such separations could resume. Source: …
President claims Democrats are responsible for the humanitarian calamity, saying they refuse to approve detention centers' funding
President Donald Trump continued to mislead about the origin of the humanitarian crisis on the US border, saying Democrats refuse to approve new funds for detention facilities for children. Source: CNN
Melania Trump takes first-hand look at the migrant crisis
First lady Melania Trump touched down in McAllen, Texas, Thursday making a publicly unannounced and hastily planned trip to get a first-hand look at the crisis affecting immigrant families at the US border. Source: CNN
First lady asks: How can I help these children?
First lady Melania Trump makes a surprise visit to a child immigrant detention center at the US-Mexico border. Source: CNN
'I've never been out': Chilling 911 call reveals abuse in Turpin family
The 17-year-old girl who called police to report her allegedly abusive parents in Perris, California, said the house the family lived in smelled so badly that she could barely breathe, and she thought she and her 12 siblings might need to go to the doctor. Source: CNN
Trump: I'd rather be strong than 'pathetically weak'
President Donald Trump meets with members of Congress to discuss the practice of family separation at the border. Source: CNN
Lewandowski on child with Down syndrome: 'Womp womp'
Corey Lewandowski dismissed the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was reportedly separated from her mother after crossing the border illegally. Source: CNN