Tag: Department of Health and Human Services

Immigrant children play outside a former Job Corps site that now houses them, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Homestead, Fla. It is not known if the children crossed the border as unaccompanied minors or were separated from family members. Wrenching scenes of migrant children being separated from their parents at the southern border are roiling campaigns ahead of midterm elections, emboldening Democrats on the often-fraught issue of immigration.

DHS: 2,342 kids separated from adults at the border over five-week period

Anna Giaritelli · June 19, 2018 4:03 pm

President Trump listens in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Trump, GOP headed toward standoff over family separations at border

Gabby Morrongiello · June 19, 2018 2:33 am

Fact-checked: Viral photo of boy in enclosure taken at protest, not in detention facility

Naomi Lim · June 19, 2018 2:14 am

A U.S. Border Patrol agent watches as people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States stand in line at a facility in McAllen, Texas.

Trump administration could be holding 30,000 border kids by August, officials say

Anna Giaritelli · June 18, 2018 12:23 pm

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, celebrates Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

Cardinal challenges Sessions, says it’s ‘unbiblical’ and ‘un-American’ to separate families

Diana Stancy Correll · June 16, 2018 6:33 pm

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, (pictured above) announced that he would invite Stephen Willeford, a man who confronted the Sutherland Springs shooter in Texas, to watch the State of the Union address on Tuesday. The congressman's office said he will also pay for travel accommodations for Willeford and his wife. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democratic lawmaker says Obama administration tried to keep ‘quiet’ how many children illegally crossed border

Diana Stancy Correll · June 16, 2018 5:18 pm

Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border in Karnes City, Texas.

Nearly 2,000 kids have been separated from adults at border: DHS officials

Anna Giaritelli · June 15, 2018 7:04 pm

The law passed Congress with majority support from both parties in December 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Lamar Alexander urges Trump administration to be more flexible on Obamacare for states

Kimberly Leonard · June 15, 2018 6:52 pm

U.S. Border Patrol agents patrol the border fence in Naco, Ariz. National guard contingents in U.S. states that border Mexico say they are waiting for guidance from Washington to determine what they will do following President Trump's proclamation directing deployment to fight illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

360-person tent city for unaccompanied minors being set up in El Paso, Texas: HHS official

Anna Giaritelli · June 14, 2018 10:11 pm

HHS, DHS may house unaccompanied child immigrants in tent cities on Texas military bases: Official

Anna Giaritelli · June 12, 2018 9:32 pm

Michael Bloomberg aims to fully decarbonize the economy by 2050 at the latest.

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Trump administration blocks WHO from calling for sugar taxes

Bill Wirtz · June 12, 2018 5:06 pm

HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s home targeted by protesters with disabilities

Eddie Scarry · June 10, 2018 7:30 pm