re-separated children – An Associated Press investigation describes how, despite a 2023 settlement meant to prevent re-separations for families torn apart under the 2017–2018 Trump “family separation” policy, federal actions in the second Trump term have separated children again. For
When Ederson Galicia Alva stepped off a plane and into the dim hallways of the Miami airport, his body reacted before his mind could catch up. He was back in the United States after nearly a year away. He was supposed to be ready for recess again with his Florida classmates.
Then federal agents pulled his mother aside for questioning—again.
Panic swept through Ederson, because this wasn’t the first time the government had taken her. In 2018. when he was 3. Ederson was separated from his mother at the U.S.-Mexico border under the first Trump administration’s family separation policy. kept apart from her in a government facility for months. and reunited only after lawyers intervened. Then. in June of last year. despite legal protections meant to keep families like theirs together. Ederson and his mother were separated a second time.
An Associated Press investigation now says the government re-separated dozens of children from their families during Trump’s second term. even though a landmark legal settlement was designed to prevent it. Some parents have been locked in immigration detention facilities for months. Others have been deported to their home countries after being taken from their children again. In some cases. the investigation says immigration officials conducting interior arrests deported people despite discovering they were legally off limits for removal. based on emails obtained by AP.
“Not only has the government refused to acknowledge the horror of the initial separations during Trump I. but it is now detaining and deporting these same families. ” said Lee Gelernt. an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and lead counsel in the lawsuit that ended the policy. “These children have suffered enough without re-traumatizing them.”.
The tension is sharp for the parents caught in the middle of Trump’s immigration push. Trump. who successfully ran for reelection on an anti-immigration platform. has vowed under his second term to deport more than 1 million people per year. The report says federal agents have been plucking people from their communities so swiftly that. according to the Brookings Institution. the parents of tens of thousands of children have been detained.
For families already marked as “protected” by a court settlement, that scale has collided with the question that Ederson kept asking even after he returned: why was this allowed to happen twice?
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So they promised protections but still did the same thing? That’s messed up.
Isn’t this just normal immigration processing? Like people get questioned and moved around all the time, the headline makes it sound way worse than it is.
My cousin said they “lost paperwork” and then the kids were gone for months, so I’m not shocked this happened again. Also “deported to home countries after being taken” sounds like they did it on purpose. How is a settlement even a thing if they ignore it again?
Wait so Trump 2nd term is separating kids again but the settlement was supposed to stop it? I saw some clip where they were saying it’s not the same policy, like semantics. Then you got emails and ACLU lawyers saying “refused to acknowledge” which… okay sure, but what about the parents who are deported and then the kid ends up adopted or something? It’s all just chaos and nobody is accountable.