At the time, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed it did not have a “policy” of separating mothers and their children, although they retained the right to do so to protect children from human traffickers. The indomitable American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) first brought suit in February on behalf of Ms. L and her 7-year-old daughter fled violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo-once deemed the rape capital of the world-but were eventually detained separately without explanation, 2,000 miles apart. ICE, which actually pre-dates the immediate family separation crisis. District Court for the Southern District of California has approved a settlement in a set of family separation cases. The family-separation crisis hadn’t been resolved, as many Americans believed-it had simply evolved. But, a new article in the current issue of The New Yorker about the gut-wrenching ordeal of 5-year-old Helen, an asylum seeker from Honduras who was taken from her grandmother by border patrol agents and later encouraged to sign away her rights to a court hearing, reminds us that since Trump halted the practice in June, With all that is going on, the issue of family separations at the border has slipped from view.

Floris expanded vs evolved