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The US immigration system treats minors who cross the border without authorization through a mix of statutory protections, federal custody and placement systems, immigration relief avenues, and enforc...
ICE arrested Chinese asylum-seeker Fei Zheng and his 6‑year‑old son, Yuanxin, at a scheduled check‑in at 26 Federal Plaza on Nov. 26; advocates say the two were separated, the father is being held at ...
Available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative tally of how many children were “recovered” specifically during ICE family‑separation operations; sources describe isolated operations (70 ...
No single authoritative total for “child trafficking cases reported at the U.S.–Mexico border in 2024” appears in the available reporting. Government datasets and major reports discuss surges in migra...
U.S. law and agency practice mean , but investigations and oversight reports document recurring problems—overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, medical lapses, and instances of abuse—when minors are hel...
The Biden administration created an Interagency Family Reunification Task Force in February 2021, implemented new CBP and ORR guidance to limit unnecessary separations, and expanded social-support pro...
A precise, up-to-date single number for how many children remain in U.S. custody after separation from their parents by ICE is not available in the materials provided; multiple investigations and repo...
’s official policy is that it does not detain unaccompanied children and that hotels should not be used as detention sites, but reporting and litigation show that families and children have in some ca...
Public reporting and government summaries in the provided documents do not contain a clear, year-by-year table of "unaccompanied migrant children released to sponsors" for each calendar year 2017–2024...
The record assembled by congressional hearings, inspector-general reports and multiple news outlets shows large numbers of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) who were released to sponsors and later b...
Immigration status largely determines whether Somali refugees or asylum seekers can access U.S. safety-net programs: refugees and asylees are explicitly eligible for many mainstream benefits (TANF, SS...
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s August 2024 review found that tens to hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children who arrived since FY2019 were not tracked the way ...
Federal databases show hundreds of thousands of missing-person reports that include children: NCIC entries were roughly 337,195 in 2021 and 359,094 in 2022 per reporting cited by a national child-iden...
The “zero-tolerance” directive announced in April 2018 produced a sharp spike in large-scale separations during spring–summer 2018 and left a lasting reunification crisis: HHS data counts 3,793 childr...
Public sources show no single, definitive count of "children taken by ICE"; available data distinguish between unaccompanied alien children transferred to HHS, children held in family detention, and U...
Undocumented children in the United States are protected by a layered statutory and settlement framework that guarantees basic care, placement standards, access to education, and pathways to relief, b...
ICE’s public detention policy frames custody as a used to secure presence for immigration proceedings, with custody decisions weighing flight risk, public safety, and humanitarian considerations; unac...
The available materials contain ; reporting instead documents policy shifts, detention expansions, and transparency problems under the Trump administration that plausibly affect separations but do not...