.@ap: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling immigrant children who cross the southern border alone, halting a policy that has sent thousands of minors back to danger without any of the usual protections required by law.
apnews.com/article/pandem…
According to @ap, the Trump administration has expelled at least 8,800 unaccompanied children since March, when it issued an emergency declaration citing the coronavirus as grounds for barring most people crossing the border from remaining in the U.S. apnews.com/article/pandem…
We reported with @propublica in August that children were being sent back to danger with no access to social workers or lawyers, not even their family, while in U.S. custody. bit.ly/36MCRcX
That included a 15-year-old rape victim and her baby.

Sometimes kids were sent to Mexico even if they weren’t from there. bit.ly/36MCRcX
The administration cited the risk of COVID-19 to justify the actions, expelling thousands of children without legal protections.

But it sent back kids who had tested negative for coronavirus. More in our reporting w/ @propublica from August: bit.ly/3ffDPlQ

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