While coping with COVID-19’s growing threat this summer, parents held in ICE detention were forced to decide whether they would separate from their children or stay incarcerated together.

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin calls new information around the Trump administration’s child separation policy more proof that the Justice Department is “disgraced and broken.”

Lawyers say guards in a Texas immigrant detention center exhibited a “pattern and practice” of abuse, The Texas Tribune in collaboration with ProPublica reports.

In the face of COVID-19’s growing threat, families held in detention by ICE have to decide whether they will separate from their children or stay incarcerated together.

“This is a true life and death matter for children being held against [their] will during a raging pandemic,” said Domingo Garcia, National President of the League of United Latin American Citizens.

Judge Dana Sabraw says the Trump administration’s ongoing practice of dividing families at the border is being executed appropriately.