Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP finds
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Trump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP finds
By GARANCE BURKE and SONIA PÉREZ D.
Updated 12:25 AM EDT, June 4, 2026
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Eleven-year-old Ederson Galicia Alva had just stepped off the plane and into the Miami airport’s dim hallways when federal agents pulled his mother aside for questioning. Again. ... Panic welled up. His excitement at soon being back at recess with his Florida classmates fell away. Would the government take her away again?
This was not his first trauma. In 2018, when he was just 3 years old, Ederson was taken from his mother’s arms at the U.S.-Mexico border under the first Trump administration’s family separation policy and kept apart from her in a government facility for months. They were finally reunited after lawyers intervened. Then, in June of last year, he and his mother were separated a second time, despite legal protections meant to keep them and families like theirs together.
He later joined his mother in Guatemala. After a destitute, torturous 11 months in the indigenous highlands, Ederson’s family was allowed to return to Florida last week, following a federal judge’s order that the government had acted illegally.
Now, eight years after President Donald Trump’s forcible border separations came to an official halt following global outrage, an Associated Press investigation has found that the government has re-separated dozens of children from their families, despite a landmark legal settlement meant to keep them together. Some of their parents have been locked in immigration detention facilities for months, others deported back to their home countries after being taken from their families once again. In some cases, immigration officials conducting interior arrests deported people despite discovering they were legally off limits for removal, according to emails obtained by AP.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-family-separation-ice-71a610d15af5207a68f989fcafb55039
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