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New York Times Reveals “More Targeted Version” Of Trump Family Separation Policy

U.S. immigration authorities are once again separating children from their undocumented parents in “what appears to be a more targeted version of one of the most explosive policies” of President Donald Trump’s first term, The New York Times revealed on Tuesday.

The Times “uncovered at least nine cases in which parents have been separated from their children after they refused to comply with deportation orders, according to internal government documents, case files, and interviews,” wrote exposé author Hamed Aleaziz.

Last week, Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America and Diana Flórez of the Women’s Refugee Commission said that “the extent of involuntary family separation is far greater than we expected,” including “hundreds” of U.S. citizen children who have been separated from undocumented parents after their arrest.