Citing reporting by @propublica and others, nearly 4,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals sent a letter to DHS Sec Kristi Noem calling for the immediate release of all children currently in immigration detention. Full letter: 1/ tinyurl.com/yz2amueb The letter from health professionals says the detention of immigrant children “is causing predictable, severe, and lasting harm to their mental and physical health” and that “even brief confinement can cause psychological trauma and life long harm” 2/

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.

She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.

She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/ Trump restarted family detention, but it’s different now. Before, the family facility in Dilley, Texas, primarily housed recent border crossers. Now, parents and children who have been living for years in the United States are being detained there. 2/

Today we published our 2nd story investigating the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to Salvadoran. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum propublica.org/article/venezu… A 🧵More than 60 of the men imprisoned in El Salvador had pending asylum claims and some were just days away from final hearings, my colleague @JeffErnsthausen found by examining immigration court data and internal government records we obtained 2/

Today @propublica is launching a deeply reported series about immigration in the US today, and what isn’t being talked about by either campaign. Our opening story w/ @JeffErnsthausenthat puts what is happening around the country in historical context
projects.propublica.org/new-effects-of… If you dig into the data, you can see that in the past, many more people entered the United States through the southwest border without getting caught. In fact, those of us over 20 have lived through periods of higher rates of border crossings before.

NEW: Today we are publishing a year-long investigation into child labor used by parts suppliers to Hyundai and Kia across Alabama. With @kristinacooke and @jschney, we learned kids some as young as 12 assembled parts for some of the US' most popular cars reut.rs/3uWznRn @kristinacooke @jschney .@Reuters learned that as many as 10 Alabama plants in the Hyundai/Kia supply chain have been investigated by various state and federal agencies for child labor and authorities are also probing whether children may have gotten there through human trafficking networks 2/

Today Reuters is reporting that underage workers - some as young as 12 - have toiled in a hazard-laden Alabama metal stamping plant that is a subsidiary of car-giant @Hyundai. Read the investigation w/ @jschney @kristinacooke here:
reuters.com/world/us/exclu… We spoke to 12 current and former employees of the plant, called SMART LLC, in the small town of Luverne, Alabama who knew of underage workers on the assembly line. One former worker at the @Hyundai subsidiary told Reuters there were around 50 minors working over various shifts.

Reuters has been following Maria Hernandez's family for 2 years. After Trump officials separated her daughters - 3 and 8 years old at the time - from her at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2017, Biden reunited them. But now they are homeless in LA reut.rs/39nhhR0 Biden pledged to reunite families separated by Trump's "zero tolerance" border strategy. But three-quarters of the 200 children reunited with their parents under Biden have struggled to find housing in the United States, according to data from aid groups obtained by Reuters

The Biden administration is trolling through thousands of records to make sure they have identified all of the children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under Trump. They have found an additional 5,600 previously unreviewed files: reut.rs/3rYpPSa A DHS official said that the review of the files could yield only a few additional confirmed separations on top of the around 5,500 identified through litigation brought by the ACLU, but the first task is fixing misinformation and bad data in the government records w/ @tedhesson

NEW: In less than a week, two septuagenarians have died of COVID in ICE detention. This is the story of one of them: 72-year-old James Hill, a Canadian, was ready to finally return to his family after serving 14 years in prison. He never got the chance. reut.rs/3atmTFR I was in contact with Hill’s family before he was hospitalized. For weeks, they had been trying (unsuccessfully) to push ICE to deport him to Canada, worried that the crowded conditions in the detention center in Virginia were too dangerous at his advanced age 2/7

NEW: NEW: We delve into how a new Trump immigration policy was supposed to help improve massive court backlogs, but is actually doing the opposite. With @kristinacooke and @readelev reut.rs/2UI5DFb As of early September there are now more than 42,000 migrants that have been sent back to Mexico to wait out US court dates, but putting an international border between migrants and their hearings has lead to confusion and errors that have serious consequences for people’s cases