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Migrant Children and Parents Face Deportation After Refusing to Be Separated

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.

Shani Saxon Nov 24, 2020 6:30PM EST

A woman wearing a white baseball cap looks to the sky and holds a sign that reads, Families Belong Together.

Trump's Child Separation Policy Intended to 'Inflict Hardship'

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.”

Shani Saxon Oct 9, 2020 3:30PM EDT

Woman holds colorful protest sign that reads, "families belong together" in Spanish

ACLU: The U.S. Government Has Taken 911 More Kids From Their Asylum-Seeking Families

The American Civil Liberties Union argued in court that in the year since Trump officially ended his “zero tolerance” immigration policy, 911 additional children have been separated from their parents or guardians.

Shani Saxon Jul 31, 2019 5:22PM EDT

Maryland Rolls Back Its Zero-Tolerance School Discipline Policies

School districts have until the 2014-2015 year to revise their school discipline policies.

Julianne Hing Jan 29, 2014 1:17PM EST

Denver's Plugging Up Its School-to-Prison Pipeline

In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, elected officials, pundits and gun lobbyists have been calling for more police in schools. So why is Denver doing its own thing?

Julianne Hing Feb 21, 2013 10:12AM EST