Lee Gelernt

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SAN MARCOS, GUATEMALA - AUGUST 08: Family members embrace Leo Jeancarlo de Leon, 6, after he returned home froam the United States on August 8, 2018 near San Marcos, Guatemala. He had been separated from his mother Lourdes de Leon for nearly three months as a result of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" border policy after they were taken into custody by the U.S. Border Patrol. Lourdes was deported and Leo was held at the Cayuga Centers in New York City until he was flown back to Guatemala with 8 other children on June 7. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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In March 2017, John Kelly, then Secretary of Homeland Security, said in an interview with CNN that the Trump administration was considering a national policy to separate parents from their children to deter immigrants from crossing the border into the United States. The proposal triggered a backlash because it was so unpalatable, and the administration didn’t move forward with it. But six months later, in December 2017, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that the administration was again considering the idea. At the same time, advocates who provide services to children in government custody told ACLU lawyers they were seeing children much younger than the teenagers they usually saw entering their facilities.…  Seguir leyendo »