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Family Seperation

Migrants play football at a temporary detention center for immigrant children in Tornillo, Texas.
Social Justice

Customs and Border Protection Is Separating Families Based on HIV Status

Health and Human Services removed HIV from a list of communicable diseases that bar immigrants from entry into the United States in 2010.

By Massoud Hayoun
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Social Justice

Vilma Carrillo, an Immigrant Woman Separated From Her Daughter, Has Been Released From ICE Custody

Immigrant rights groups rejoiced as authorities reunited a Guatemalan woman and her daughter Friday.

By Massoud Hayoun
Activists, including childcare providers, parents, and their children, protest against the Trump administration's family detention and separation policies for migrants along the southern border, near the New York offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on July 18th, 2018, in New York City.
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Viewfinder: Protesting Family Separations Outside the ICE Office in New York

Activists, including childcare providers, parents, and their children, protest against the Trump administration's recent family detention and separation policies.

By Pacific Standard Staff
Protesters hold signs as they block Sansome Street during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on June 19th, 2018, in San Francisco, California. Hundreds of protesters staged a demonstration outside of the ICE offices against the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy to separate immigrant families at the border.
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Viewfinder: Protesters Demonstrate Against ICE in San Francisco

Protesters hold signs as they block Sansome Street during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on June 19th, 2018, in San Francisco, California.

By Pacific Standard Staff