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Immigration

• Call a 1-800 number and wait: Migrant parents search for their children
  The government is telling parents looking for their children to dial a 1-800 number. One legal coordinator says in her experience, parents aren't getting information for four or five days.June 26, 2018
• Pentagon to house migrants at 2 military bases in Texas
  Migrant families will be housed at Ft. Bliss, an Army base outside El Paso, NPR's Tom Bowman reports. Unaccompanied migrant children will be housed at Goodfellow Air Force Base, outside San Angelo.June 25, 2018
• House Republicans face another week of fighting over immigration
  President Trump's mixed messages on immigration are making it difficult for Republicans on Capitol Hill to coalesce around legislation. House GOP leaders are still struggling with internal splits.June 25, 2018
• A Latino nonprofit is holding separated kids. Is that care, complicity or both?
  Southwest Key has, for many years, operated shelters that house unaccompanied migrant children. The family separation policy shined a spotlight on that work, and raised uncomfortable questions.June 22, 2018
• This jacket caused a racket: What, exactly, does Melania Trump not care about?
  The first lady's wardrobe choice during a trip to visit detained migrant children raises eyebrows and generates theories about whom the message was meant for.June 22, 2018
• Trump tells GOP to 'stop wasting their time' on immigration
  President Trump on Friday told his fellow Republicans in Congress to "stop wasting their time" on immigration legislation until after November, dismissing his party's struggle to surmount internal divisions.June 22, 2018
• Military asked to provide 20,000 beds for detained immigrant children
  The bed space has been requested starting in July and running through the end of the year. Officials tell NPR that four bases are expected to provide space.June 22, 2018
• Confusion swirls on border after Trump reversal on families
  Immigration enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border was plunged deeper into chaos over President Trump's reversal of a policy separating immigrant children from parents, causing uncertainty for both migrant families and the federal agencies in charge of prosecuting and detaining them.June 22, 2018
• First Lady Melania Trump visits border detention facility in Texas
  Mrs. Trump visited a children's shelter in McAllen, Texas. But much of the online chatter was about a jacket she wore -- with the president himself tweeting about the garment and its message.June 21, 2018
• Separating kids from their parents can lead to long-term health problems
  Though the federal government is changing its policy of separating immigrant children and parents, some children who were detained may suffer ongoing health consequences from the trauma.June 21, 2018
• Young immigrants detained in Virginia center allege abuse
  Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.June 21, 2018
• Facebook fundraiser for separated immigrant families has raised $15M since Saturday
  Charlotte and Dave Willner say they were motivated to start the fundraiser because the photo reminded them of their own 2-year-old daughter.June 21, 2018
• House GOP immigration compromise teeters ahead of votes
  A sweeping House GOP immigration overhaul teetered on the brink of collapse Thursday as lawmakers struggled to move past an issue that has become politically fraught amid the dire images of families being separated at the border.June 21, 2018
• Trump's executive order on family separation: What it does and doesn't do
  The president ended a policy that sent children to government-run facilities away from their parents, but critics say he created new problems, and kids already held may be there indefinitely.June 21, 2018
• ICE carries out its largest immigration raid in recent history, arresting 146
  More than 100 federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a major meat supplier in Salem, Ohio, on Tuesday. It was ICE's second massive operation in Ohio in as many weeks.June 20, 2018

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