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The Trump administration's zero tolerance policy at the U.S. border, which led to the separation of children from their parents.
is a career immigration enforcement official who held senior ICE roles during the administration and then served as acting director of in the early administration; he was executive associate director ...
Estimates of children separated from parents at the U.S. border during the Trump administration vary widely because they were compiled from incomplete, inconsistent government records, court filings a...
The Obama and Trump administrations operated under the same immigration statutes but pursued markedly different enforcement priorities and practices: Obama emphasized a tiered, prosecutorial-priority ...
Estimates of how many migrant children were separated under the Trump administration’s “zero‑tolerance” policy vary by source — official agency tallies and later government reviews and reporting put t...
Publicly available reporting and government reviews show multiple, conflicting tallies of border: human-rights and legal groups estimate roughly 4,600 separations during 2017–2021 , some analyses and ...
The Obama administration significantly expanded family detention beginning in mid‑2014, opening large family residential centers and increasing use of detention for recently arrived Central American m...
Current ICE policy emphasizes use of Alternatives to Detention (ATD) for family units where appropriate while maintaining authority to detain and remove noncitizens under expedited and mandatory deten...