At hub for border crossings, families spread throughout US

The company also noted that all proceeds would be donated to RAICES, a non-profit agency that “promotes justice by providing free and low-priced legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees in Texas”, according to its website.

During the initial days of the zero-tolerance policy those children traveling in families whose parents were taken to criminal justice system jails to face prosecution for illegal entry were also sent to the Health Department.

Under the Flores agreement, parents can choose to keep custody of their children while in detention. But it has settled on a location for much of the activity: Port Isabel Service Processing Center, 20 miles northeast of Brownsville. While prosecutors said they were not dismissing any cases, some hearings on Thursday did not proceed as scheduled.

The Latino Democrats of Allen County held a protest at the Allen County Courthouse Saturday afternoon in opposition of President Trump’s immigration policy.

“Tho they would not let us pass through, knowing that those children were there on the other side of the barbed wires, in a desert where the heat was easily over 100, made me want to fight even harder to #EndFamilySeparation”. But, she did it anyway as a rebellious act against her husband and his alleged cheating, not to mention his policies that go against her “Be Best” initiative. “We haven’t tapped out on the number of adults that have been separated”.

People online called out Trump for the inappropriate wardrobe choice, given what’s been happening at the U.S. -Mexico border.

Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representative still plan to bring an immigration bill up for a vote next week, despite President Donald Trump’s urgings on Friday to drop the effort until after November’s elections. About 9,000 such family units have been caught in each of the last three months, according to USA border authorities.

Videos of youngsters in cages and an audiotape of wailing children had sparked anger in the United States from groups ranging from clergy to influential business leaders, as well as condemnation from overseas, including Pope Francis. Trump recently signed an executive order mandating immigrant families caught entering the USA illegally to be detained together during their proceedings.

Those proposals have also sparked an outcry from women’s and children’s advocates who say children don’t belong in jail.

“I’m here to learn about your facility, in which I know you house children on a long-term basis”, Trump said during her visit.