Amy Goodman
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Trump Admin. Hints It May Resume Family Separation at Border; ACLU Says “Public Outcry is Critical”
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14:35Now PlayingThe Trump administration is reportedly considering plans to resume its policy of forcibly separating migrant children from their families along the U.S.Mexico border, even as the full number of people torn apart the last time it carried out the widely condemned practice remains unclear. A new report by Amnesty International suggests immigration officials separated some 6,000 families between April and August, a far higher number of children and parents torn apart than previously thought. Trump administration officials are now considering plans to detain asylumseeking families together for up to 20 days, and then force parents to choose to either stay detained together for months or years while their immigration case proceeds, or allow their children to be taken to a government shelter where their relatives or others can seek custody. We speak with Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. He is the lead lawyer on the ACLU’s national challenge to the Trump administration’s family separation practice.
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