central america
"In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity."
The Trump administration said it will not allow new funding to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala until those countries reduce migrant flows to the U.S.
President Donald Trump has grown increasingly frustrated by the ballooning numbers of families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and asking for asylum.
The ACLU is arguing in court that parents separated from their children and pressured into deportations deserve another shot at asylum.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The president said the U.S. will impose "gradually" increasing tariffs on goods from Mexico if the country doesn't curb the number of migrants crossing the border.
They will decide if the family of a Mexican teen killed by a Border Patrol agent firing across the border can pursue a lawsuit in U.S. courts.
The donation will go toward helping those fleeing Central American who have found the U.S. border "closed to them," the Vatican said.
Larry Hopkins, 69, was arrested on gun charges after his group spent two months detaining thousands of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The United Constitutional Patriots claim they're helping U.S. Border Patrol catch undocumented migrants. The ACLU calls the group kidnappers.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco largely affirmed a July ruling from a lower court.