Migrant

Two boats full of migrants made it ashore in Fort Lauderdale Sunday morning. NBC 6’s Claudia DoCampo reports

California and Colorado this year banned state agencies from using the word “alien” to refer to immigrants who entered the U.S. without permission

NBC 6’s Willard Shepard is in the Florida Keys with the latest.

About 40 migrant women who were held at a Georgia detention center have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging they were subjected to medical abuse through nonconsensual or unnecessary procedures while in the facility, NBC News reports. The complaint, filed late Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, also claims women at the Irwin County Detention…

Frances Tulk-Hart of Rhode Island is painting a mural of migrant children to protest child separation from parents at the Mexico-U.S. border.

Protesters confronted Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, about family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border as the couple left an event at Georgetown University.

A North Texas pastor said Ivanka Trump made a donation to his church to help migrant children at the border.

The “zero tolerance” policy separated 2,235 families at the U.S.-Mexico border from April 19 to June 9. Parents were detained separately and children sent to shelters. Now families may be detained together indefinitely due to court backlogs.

President Donald Trump promised the crowd at a campaign-style rally in Duluth, Minnesota, Wednesday night that a border wall will soon be fully funded. The rally came hours after Trump signed an executive order temporarily halting family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border.

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to temporarily stop the practice of separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. The order maintains the administration’s zero-tolerance prosecution policy for those crossing into the U.S. illegally. The executive order may present new legal challenges as it goes against an established legal ruling.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) slammed the Trump administration’s practice of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday in an emotional speech during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. “We will not do that. We are better than that. We are so much better,” Cummings said.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended the practice of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that her department is merely following laws. Speaking at a White House briefing Monday, Nielsen said the issue has been growing for years, the product of loopholes that have created an open border.

Hillary Clinton commented on migrant children being separated from their families at the border today during a speech at the Women’s Forum of New York, saying in part, “every person with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged.”

As tens of thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America crossed the border in search of safe harbor, overwhelmed U.S. officials weakened child protection policies, placing some young migrants in homes where they were sexually assaulted, starved, or forced to work for little or no pay, an Associated Press investigation has found.