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- Immigration policy failure a 'political' and 'moral' crisis: Donna Brazile
  The "This Week" Powerhouse Roundtable debates this week in politics.
  
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- Trump says undocumented immigrants should 'immediately' return without due process
  Trump calls American immigration system a "mockery."
  
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- EU papers over differences after 'frank' migration talks
  The leaders of 16 countries survived the "frank talk" of an emergency meeting on immigration and have emerged with a veneer of common purpose as the European Union enters a potentially vital week for the bloc's unity
  
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Jun 24
- People fleeing violence in Central America have 'legal right' to apply for asylum in US: Advocate
  A human rights leader says the U.S. needs to address trauma on southern border.
  
  Jun 24
Jun 24
- Dem says Trump's use of 'inhumane' policies to 'gin up' his base 'seems to be working'
  Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez discusses the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy and immigration reform efforts with George Stephanopoulos on "This Week."
  
  Jun 24
Jun 24
- A global crisis: 1 in every 110 people are driven from their homes by violence
  Save the Children CEO Carolyn Miles and International Rescue Committee CEO David Miliband discuss family separation and the worldwide refugee crisis.
  
  Jun 24
Jun 24
- No one answering ‘hard questions’ on 'quantity, quality' of immigrants to let in: Former Trump aide
  A former Trump adviser said no one wants to take on hard questions on how many and what kind of immigrants to let into the U.S.n.
  
  Jun 24
Jun 24
- Trump administration's 'secret shutdown' of immigration program discriminated against Latinos: Lawsuit
  The Central American Minors program was shut down five days into Trump's term.
  
  Jun 24
Jun 24
- Former top Trump aide Tom Bossert on border security, family separation
  Former Trump Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert joins George Stephanopoulos to discuss the immigration crisis at the southern border.
  
  Jun 24
Jun 24
- Immigration key issue in rough GOP race for Kansas governor
  Illegal immigration is a key issue for Kansas Republicans as their primary contest for governor grows increasingly contentious
  
  Jun 24
Jun 24
- Republicans prepare bill allowing migrant children to be detained more than 20 days
  Republican lawmakers are preparing to vote on a more narrow immigration bill that would allow immigrant children to stay in detention facilities with their parents.
  
  Jun 24
Jun 23
- Trump blames Democrats for his administration's immigration failures at Vegas rally
  Staff members like Sarah Sanders and Kirstjen Nielsen continue to face backlash over the president's immigration policies.
  
  Jun 23
Jun 23
- Human rights activists announce 24-day hunger strike in Texas
  The hunger strike is to protest against the separation of immigrant families at the Southern border.
  
  Jun 23
Jun 23
- Chaos on the border inflames GOP's split with Latinos
  GOP strategists are bracing for the potential fallout the turmoil at the border might have on November's midterm elections
  
  Jun 23
Jun 23
- Jogger says US detained her after accidental border crossing
  A 19-year-old woman who traveled from France to Canada to visit her mother in British Columbia says U.S. officials detained her for two weeks after she accidentally crossed the border while jogging
  
  Jun 23
Jun 23
- Trump meets with Angel families as questions persist about immigration policy
  The president shifted his focus to American parents whose children were killed by undocumented immigrants.
  
  Jun 23
Jun 23
- Confusion on the border as more lawmakers call for change to immigration policy
  Lawmakers and the Trump administration try to sort out the logistics of returning separated children to their parents.
  
  Jun 23
Jun 23
- Hundreds of separated migrant families reunited
  Hundreds are being reunited and DHS has stopped referring people to DOJ.
  
  Jun 23
Jun 23
- Families hope to reunite with kids as debate over separation at the border continues
  Darwin Micheal Mejia and his mother Beata Mariana De Jesus Mejia-Mejia were recently reunited at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
  
  Jun 23
Jun 23
- Confusion continues as immigrant children remain separated from parents
  Some migrant families have been reunited, but thousands more remain separated.
  
  Jun 23
Jun 23
- 'It’s not only happening at the border': Immigrant families seek help on Capitol Hill
  Families say nothing has been the same since their loved ones were detained, fearful of never reuniting again.
  
  Jun 23
Jun 23
- Online fundraiser for separated migrant families has brought in over $19M, breaking records
  An online fundraiser launched less than a week ago for separated migrant families has raised over $18.5 million.
  
  Jun 23
Jun 22
- 'Not knowing anything about my daughter is torture': Immigrants separated from children at border file lawsuit in federal court
  The filing asks a federal judge to issue an order requiring the federal government to provide access to basic information about their children's whereabouts.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- US Navy preparing to house 25,000 migrants at remote facilities for up to 6 months: Memo
  A spokesman said the Defense Department is "conducting prudent planning."
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- Photographer of crying immigrant girl picture defends against WH's criticism
  Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday accused Democrats and the media of “shameful” exploitation of a photo of a young girl crying at the border.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- Journalists tour center for migrant children in Florida
  US officials provided a glimpse Friday into a South Florida facility housing more than 1,000 teen-age migrant children as part of an effort to dispel any suggestions that any kids are being mistreated
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- Trump meets with families of victims killed by undocumented immigrants
  The president appeared alongside 'angel families' Friday afternoon.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- Some families separated at the border reunite as House immigration bill flops
  More on the immigration debate plus protests over police killing an unarmed black man and the latest on E.U. retaliatory tariffs.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- Reporter's Notebook: Inside a Florida shelter for immigrant children
  The Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Florida is currently housing more than 1,000 immigrant children.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- Confusion over reunification for separated families at the border
  There are still several hundred more children who are separated from their parents and still no clear answers on when or how they will be reunited.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- First lady's trip to visit immigrant children overshadowed by tone-deaf jacket choice
  The Trump administration said hundreds of families have been reunited, as Melania Trump visited a detention center near the border and made headlines for her outfit.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- Melania Trump makes surprise visit to Texas to visit migrant children separated by president's policy
  The White House says she is visiting a service center for children.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- First Lady Melania Trump visits Texas to see migrant children separated from parents
  The visit came after President Trump signed an executive order halting the policy that has resulted in the separation of children from their parents who illegally crossed the U.S. southern border.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- 'Zero-tolerance' approach not very effective, experts say
  Comes amid debate over Trump administration's immigration policy.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- House rejects conservative immigration bill, delays vote on second measure
  House will now vote next week on a GOP alternative immigration bill.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- DHS Secretary Nielsen casts immigration crisis as 'a national security issue'
  Kirstjen Nielsen says Congress must 'fix the immigration system.'
  
  Jun 22
Jun 22
- Children don Mylar blankets, protest family separations on Capitol Hill
  Grassroots opponents of President Donald Trump’s approach towards immigrant families brought the plight of immigrant children straight to senators' front doors Thursday.
  
  Jun 22
Jun 21
- Children in 100 shelters in over a dozen states sit in limbo
  The Trump administration scrambles to come up with a plan for the over 2,000 children who have been separated from their families.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- GOP struggles to salvage immigration bill, postpones vote
  President Donald Trump is suggesting that any measure the House passes is doomed in the Senate anyway
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- 75 percent of Americans say immigration is a good thing: Gallup poll
  The only year most Americans didn't view immigration as a positive was in 2002, when the poll was conducted about nine months after the 9/11 terror attacks.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- Trump administration may house up to 20K migrant children at US military bases
  The children would be minors who crossed the border without their parents.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- 'Children are not poker chips': US mayors rally at border town against immigrant family separation policy
  Mayors from across the nation converged on the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday morning to protest President Donald Trump's family separation policy.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- DHS Secretary addresses controversial immigration policy a day after Trump signs executive order
  "Of the 12,000 UACs that are currently housed within HHS facilities, 10,000 are unaccompanied," Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- Cynthia Nixon calls separating families 'devastating,' wants ICE to be abolished
  The former actress is running for governor of New York.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- First lady makes unannounced visit to Texas to see migrant children
  Melania Trump traveled to a social services center amid a crisis over migrant children being forcibly separated from their parents as a result of the administration's "zero-tolerance" policy.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- Crisis at the border: What's next for children separated from parents?
  ABC News breaks down Trump's executive order ending the family separation policy, the trauma suffered by children and what's ahead in the immigration debate.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- US mayors rally at border town against Trump's family separation policy
  Mayors from around the nation and across the political aisle converged on a border town Thursday morning to protest President Donald Trump's family separation policy.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- How will Trump's order affect separated children?
  The Trump administration says the more than 2,300 children who have been separated from their families since May will not be immediately reunited.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- What's next for children already separated from their families?
  It's unclear how parents and children will be reunited.
  
  Jun 21
Jun 21
- Reaction to Trump's order ending family separations
  ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams and ABC News contributor Tom Bossert discuss President Trump's executive order after his administration called for Congress to act.
  
  Jun 21

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