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Project Reunify

Monitoring Children's Detention

Child behind fence

News Updates

Important developments in the national movement to promptly and humanely reunify thousands of refugee children separated from their parents.

Federal District Court Denies Government’s Emergency Request to Terminate Legal Rights of Children

Legal Aid Groups Sue Office of Refugee Resettlement

Ninth Circuit Rules that Children in ORR Custody Must be Provided Custody Hearings

August 16, 2020 - A Private Security Company Is Detaining Migrant Children at Hotels

May 17, 2020 - ICE asked migrant parents whether they wished to be separated from their children, agency tells court

May 15, 2020 - Family separation is back for migrants at the U.S./Mexican border, say advocates

April 24, 2020 - Judge orders release of migrant children despite challenges presented by pandemic

April 24, 2020 - U.S. Judge finds government is violating protections for migrant children during pandemic

July 27, 2018 - Federal judge to appoint independent monitor for detained migrant children

July 18, 2018 - Life in the ‘dog pound’

July 17, 2018 - Immigrant children describe treatment in detention centers

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