migrant children

The Trump administration has tried to deport Guatemalan children living in U.S. shelters or foster care. Advocates for these children filed lawsuits to stop the removals, and a federal judge has temporarily blocked the deportations. The administration says it's reuniting children with families at the Guatemalan government's request. However, advocates argue the process bypasses immigration courts and frightens the children.

A U.S. Coast Guard video shows Key West crews returning nearly 90 migrants, including children, to Haiti on Sunday. Since October, the military branch has detained 3,060 Haitian migrants, a nearly 51% increase compared to the last fiscal year.

"It takes time to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administration before us established," DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.

The new policy would end the Flores settlement and allow the government to hold families with children without a deadline, in a change from the way cases are handled today.

A 15-year-old boy from Houston, who was picked up by immigration authorities in Texas and sent to the Homestead children’s detention center even though he…

Yazmin Juárez told lawmakers that her daughter died from a respiratory infection after getting inadequate medical care in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

Two Democratic lawmakers, including one running for president, are calling on the company that operates the Homestead detention center for unaccompanied…

In two-thirds of over 1,500 cases from April 2016 to February 2018, Immigration and Customs Enforcement put migrant youth into detention when they turned 18, according to government data.

More than 15,000 children are being held in migrant children shelters around the country. A recent ProPublica investigation found some kids are reporting…