A New Kind of Family Separation

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts In the Trump administration’s recent round of immigration crackdown, the American public hasn’t seen the same terrible images of migrant children at the border being snatched from their mother’s arms, as they did during his first administration. But that’s because family separation has morphed into something less visible and possibly harder to track. In President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has focused on dismantling a system specifically constructed to protect minors from the harsher aspects of…

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House defense bill boosts military pay, increases family separation allowance

The House Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2026 defense policy bill, passed Tuesday night after a full day of debate, includes a 3.8% pay bump for service members, a 60% increase in the family separation allowance and excludes the basic allowance for housing from income calculations.  The committee passed its version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act less than a week after the Senate Armed Services Committee advanced its own version of the legislation. The House defense bill, just like the Senate’s version, focuses heavily on reforming the…

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Republican senator slams family separation at US border: It ‘simply is un-American’ – WPVI-TV

WPVI-TV Republican senator slams family separation at US border: It 'simply is un-American'WPVI-TV"I think that Republicans need to provide that check, and that's what our system of government does, and I hope that they can without a change in who controls Congress," Flake said. "But I think that that may be coming if you believe the conventional …and more » us republicans – Google News

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US congressional Republicans seek legislative fix to family separation crisis – Reuters

Reuters US congressional Republicans seek legislative fix to family separation crisisReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Republicans scrambled on Tuesday to craft legislation that would quell an outcry over the Trump administration's separation of immigrant parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, with an opinion poll showing …Trump, US Republicans to meet amid furor over immigrant childrenReuters.com Advocates have one way to help immigrants separated from their children: Post their bailMarketWatchall 6,555 news articles » us republicans – Google News

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Trump Again Falsely Blames Democrats for His Separation Tactic – New York Times

New York Times Trump Again Falsely Blames Democrats for His Separation TacticNew York TimesInstead, he focused on MS-13, the brutal transnational gang with roots in El Salvador, laying out in graphic detail the crimes its members have inflicted on American citizens and charging, with no basis, that Democrats “want them taken care of — they …Trump repeats falsehood that Democrats are to blame for forced family separations at the US-Mexico borderBusiness Insider Trump again falsely blames the Democrats for his administration's family separationsCNN'I Hate the Children Being Taken Away.' Donald…

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