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Trump Claims Rising Support From Latino Voters. There's No Proof of That.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is claiming his policies to stop illegal immigration are helping his standing with Latino voters, and he is taking undue credit for uniting families who were separated at the border. Trump made the statements in a sometimes combative interview airing Thursday on the Spanish-language network...

Official Who Oversaw Migrant Kids: Separation Causes Trauma

WASHINGTON — The Health and Human Services official responsible for helping to reunite families separated by the Trump administration said Thursday he had warned colleagues that separating children from their parents would cause lasting, serious psychological trauma. Commander Jonathan White of the U.S. Public Health Service testified before a House...

Watchdog: Many More Migrant Families May Have Been Separated

WASHINGTON — Government investigators say many more migrant children may have been separated from their parents than the Trump administration has acknowledged. A report from the Health and Human Services inspector general's office finds that family separations were taking place before the spring of last year, when the administration announced...

Detaining Immigrant Children Is a Billion-Dollar Business

SAN ANTONIO — Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained...

US Says Half of Youngest Children and Families Reunited

WASHINGTON —  The Trump administration says all eligible small children separated from their families as a result of its zero-tolerance immigration policy have been reunited with their parents. But nearly half of the children under 5 remain separated from their families because of safety concerns, the deportation of their parents...

Janz Presses Attack Against Trump & Nunes on Immigration

Democratic congressional candidate Andrew Janz of Fresno returned from his weekend trip to the U.S-Mexico border "disappointed" that he wasn't able to see the conditions there for incarcerated detainees. But the Fresno County prosecutor continues to press the attack against President Donald Trump's immigration policies. He remains on the offensive,...

Don't Kid Yourselves, Dems. Obama Struggled With Family Immigration.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The Trump administration isn't the first to grapple with the question of how to handle tens of thousands of immigrant families stopped along the U.S.-Mexico border. Four years ago, Barack Obama faced a similar crisis when record numbers of Central American immigrants fleeing violence began showing...

GOP Frantically Huddles on Family Separation Crisis

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Capitol Hill frantically searched on Tuesday for ways to end the administration's policy of separating families after illegal border crossings, ahead of a visit from President Donald Trump to discuss broader immigration legislation. Top conservatives, including key Trump allies, announced they were introducing bills to stop...

Valadao Calls Trump's Family Separation Policy 'Unacceptable.' Costa Visits Border.

A defiant President Trump said Monday that he won't allow the United States to become a "migrant camp." "Not on my watch," the president added. The president's remarks came before an event in Washington, D.C., in which he directed the Pentagon to create a “space force” as the Defense Department’s...

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