Early reports warned migrant kids suffered from separations. Trump ramped up practice anyway.
Internal emails, documents illustrate a chaotic attempt last year to track traumatized migrant children seized from parents.
The materials were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request submitted to Health and Human Services by the American Immigration Council, the National Immigrant Justice Center, Kids in Need of Defense, the Women’s Refugee Commission, and the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. All have experience providing legal services for migrant children.