First lady Melania Trump said she was "blindsided" by the administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy that led to family separations at the southern border and it prompted her unannounced visit there in June.
The women say they were treated like dogs and told that their children would be given up for adoption. They lied awake at night, wondering if their kids were safe.
The Department of Homeland Security's watchdog will investigate its practices regarding families that were separated on the border, the inspector general confirmed to members of Congress Thursday.
Eris Hidalgo Ramirez couldn't sleep for three nights after his son was taken from him. The 26-year-old Honduras native had never been apart from his 5-year-old before the end of May, when the two illegally crossed the border in Texas to seek asylum. They were separated soon after immigration authorities took them into custody.
Cindy Madrid said it was agony living for a month without her 6-year-old daughter, whose tearful pleas to immigration officers were heard across the country in an audio recording smuggled out of a detention center.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the solution to the current crisis of thousands of undocumented children being separated from their parents at the border is for them to not come into the country illegally.
The hand-scrawled signs in all colors and sizes reflect the thousands of Americans participating in rallies Saturday against the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy toward undocumented immigrants.
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda lent his voice Saturday to the "Families Belong Together" immigration rally in Washington, dedicating a song from the hit Broadway musical to parents who have been separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Saturday called for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be replaced with an agency that reflects America's morality and "that works," joining the growing chorus of Democrats who have called for the agency to be scrapped.
Demonstrators are expected to gather in cities across the United States on Saturday to protest the White House's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that has prompted the separations and detentions of migrant families.
One of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' pastors said on Sunday that she does not agree with the "zero-tolerance" immigration policies that led to family separations, but urged her United Methodist church in northern Virginia not to be torn apart by political differences.
In a visit to boost one of the nation's most vulnerable Republican senators ahead of this fall's November election, President Donald Trump unveiled a new nickname for the Democrat running to unseat Sen. Dean Heller.
Though the potential separation of very young children from their parents as a result of the administration's "zero-tolerance" border policy has drawn concern across the country, new data released by the government show very few such children have been impacted.
On Capitol Hill, children donned emergency thermal blankets similar to ones handed out at border detention centers and used cages as part of a protest against the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy on immigration.
Pictures from immigrant detention facilities, protests over the policy and messaging from administration officials on President Trump's decision to separate immigrant children from parents.
Microsoft is calling on the Trump administration to change a "zero tolerance" immigration policy that is separating families at the US-Mexico border.
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan wouldn't say President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy for illegal border crossings, which has led to children being separated from their parents, is humane Tuesday, saying only, "I think it's the law."
