BREAKING: Lawyers say they can't find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by the Trump administration. With @JuliaEAinsley. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
"People ask when we will find all of these families and, sadly, I can’t give an answer... will not stop looking until we have found every one... tragic reality is that hundreds of parents were deported to Central America without their children, who remain here,” said @leegelernt.
Most of these parents, if ever found, will face insurmountable hurdles to reunification with their children in the United States.
Learn more about efforts to track down the unreachable parents here, from @MichelleEWiley and @adrianamorgao.
My colleague @ahylton26 also reported on the effort to track down and reunite the "unreachables" in this extraordinary @VICE documentary. Please watch if you can.
Remember: the government knew that many of these children were so young they would struggle to find their parents after separations, but Trump moved forward with the policy anyway. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
Monday I heard what three years of being separated sounds like. This son was taken from dad by Trump admin at age six. He’s now living with relatives in CA. Dad was deported to Honduras without him. @AlOtroLado_Org trying to bring his dad back to reunite.

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21 Oct
Wrong, Chase. I literally talked to one of those families on Monday — 8 year old in CA (taken from his dad when he was 6) and father in Honduras trying to reunite — and will have audio of that interview on @NicolleDWallace’s show momentarily.
It cannot be possible @SpoxDHS is unaware there’s a status hearing tomorrow in the family separation case and the Trump admin and the ACLU are planning on discussing reunifications of still-separated families, can it? Who wrote this statement?
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20 Oct
NEW: President Trump has failed to deport “millions,” as promised. Local cops have all but made that impossible by refusing to cooperate with him. Instead he’s resorted to show-of-force ICE raids immigration activists say are tactics used to terrorize.
An ICE spokesman told me Trump's inability to deport more people than Obama is due in part to local law enforcement refusing to work with ICE, like here in L.A.

"The majority of [deportations] come from cooperation with state and local law enforcement partners," he said.
This is the place inside L.A. County Jail where ICE used to take into custody inmates who had finished serving their time -- including those whose charges were dismissed or committed minor offenses. @LACoSheriff kicked them out.
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19 Oct
Watching Dodgers. Stressed out. Going to eat a chocolate chip cookie we baked for the kids and drink some chocolate milk.
Two cookies and two glasses of chocolate milk I mean.
Three cookies. Cutting myself off.
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18 Oct
Why aren't we talking more about violence over Trump's border wall construction between the Border Patrol, U.S. Park Police and Indigenous protestors? Because too few are willing to do what @AliVelshi did today: go see what's happening with your own eyes. #Velshi @VelshiMSNBC
Here’s our complete report — which I’m grateful @AliVelshi played some of — on border wall construction and the profound impact it is having.
For the latest on fallout from wall construction, start with this reporting from @AlisaReznick at @azpmnews — and for real-time updates follow @LaikenJordahl, @PeccaryNotPig and their colleagues at @CenterForBioDiv.
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16 Oct
"New reporting reveals Trump administration officials intentionally separated migrant families. Broadcast and cable news largely ignored it. MSNBC was the only English-language network to devote substantial attention to the report." mediamatters.org/immigration/ne…
Here’s some of that reporting, with @NicolleDWallace, who always makes time on @DeadlineWH for developments in what is a story far from over. Kids are still separated.
I’m grateful, too, for @JoyAnnReid’s willingness to put family separations front and center. In this case it was minutes before our VP debate coverage.
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14 Oct
Barrett is wrong. Separations aren’t a political/policy matter — they were deemed unconstitutional in federal court. Bush appointee Dana Sabraw halted wide-scale separations on grounds they violated Fifth Amendment due process rights. Said what Trump did “shocks the conscience.”
See chapter nine of my book. The title is straight out of the court case which stopped Trump’s wide-scale policy and ordered the reunifications of all families.
Judge Barrett to @SenBooker: “that’s been a matter of policy debate and you know, obviously, that’s a matter of hot political debate, in which I can't express a view or be drawn into as a judge.” wsj.com/livecoverage/a…
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