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June 19: While speaking to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, President Trump said "you have to take children away" to prosecute parents for coming to the US illegally.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/trump-take-children-away-to-prosecute-parents/vi-AAyRXNw
June 19: 600 United Methodists file complaint against Sessions for child abuse, discrimination
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/19/united-methodists-church-complaint-jeff-sessions-border-policy/713986002/
June 21: What to Know About the Detention Centers for Immigrant Children Along the U.S.–Mexico Border
https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/immigrant-children-detention-center-separated-parents.html
June 21: Handcuffs, assaults, and drugs called 'vitamins': Children allege grave abuse at migrant detention facilities
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The allegations in ... documents, as well as recent facility inspection reports and other lawsuits, range from unsanitary conditions and invasive monitoring of mail and phone calls to unair-conditioned rooms in hot Texas summers and dosing children with cocktails of psychotropic drugs disguised as vitamins. At one facility, children recounted being held down for forcible injections, which medical records show are powerful antipsychotics and sedatives.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/us/undocumented-migrant-children-detention-facilities-abuse-invs/index.html
June 30: It’s official: the Trump administration has replaced family separation with indefinite family detention
In a new court filing, Trump’s Department of Justice says it’s now legally allowed to detain migrant families — no matter how long their cases take.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/30/17520820/families-together-detention-separate-camp-military
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June 26: Trump immigration: Cost of migrant detention v alternatives
Donald Trump has signed an executive order stopping family separation, but his administration still plans to put families into detention if they try to cross the border illegally.
What are the alternatives to detention for families and what do they cost?
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-44608078/trump-immigration-cost-of-migrant-detention-v-alternatives
September 6: Trump Administration Proposes Rule To Allow Longer Detention Of Migrant Children
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/06/645195329/trump-administration-proposes-rule-to-allow-longer-detention-of-migrant-children
September 12: Trump administration diverted nearly $10 million from FEMA to ICE detention program, according to DHS document
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/12/document-shows-the-trump-administration-diverted-nearly-10-million-from-fema-to-ice-detention-program/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.59565e2f1fc2
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September 12: Border arrests of migrant families increase 38 percent as Trump administration seeks to expand detention
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Border-arrests-of-migrant-families-increase-38-13225312.php
September 13: Trump administration is holding at least 12,800 children in immigration detention facilities
A new report reveals figures have skyrocketed as the Trump administration struggles to release minors to sponsors or family members.
https://thinkprogress.org/12800-immigrant-children-detention-centers-b8726a23061c/
October 1: Trump’s Child-Detention Crisis Is Getting Worse
Under cover of darkness, the federal government has been moving hundreds of children a week to a sprawling tent city near the Rio Grande.
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Three months after Donald Trump gave in to global opprobrium and discontinued his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the Mexican border, the stark impact of his zero-tolerance directive continues to unfold, with reports emerging that, in the space of a year, the number of migrant children detained by the U.S. government has spiked from 2,400 to over 13,000—despite the number of monthly border crossings remaining relatively unchanged. The increase, along with the fact that the average detainment period has jumped from 34 to 59 days, has resulted in an accommodation crisis. As a result, hundreds of children—some wearing belts inscribed with their emergency-contact information—have been packed onto buses, transported for hours, and deposited at a tented city in a stretch of desert in Tornillo, West Texas. According to The New York Times, these journeys typically occur in the middle of the night and on short notice, to prevent children from fleeing.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/donald-trump-child-detention-crisis-is-getting-worse
October 12: Trump administration may make parents at border choose: detention or separation
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-family-separation-border-20181012-story.html
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