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Jeremy Loudenback reported on a foster youth advocate who now sits at Adelanto ICE Processing Center, swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet.

A wide circle of supporters raising money for Axel Pecero’s young son call his arrest and detention ‘heartbreaking.’

Foster advocate Axel Pecero is being held at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center and preparing for the possibility of deportation.

Many immigrant children in Chicago are too anxious to go to school, fearing their parents will be deported.

Swift deportation leaves a family separated, with 8-and 14-year-old boys still in Arizona, and a community working to connect them.

COVID-19 has complicated the process of reuniting immigrant families with their children when a parent with an ongoing child welfare case is either in ICE custody in the U.S. or has been deported.

Last week we gave you the story of two brothers – Suamhirs and Yordi – separated by unbelievable violence in their home country of Honduras and immigration policies in the U.S.

Now that the horrific family separation policy at the border appears to be at an end, the Trump administration will need to figure out a plan for how to handle the asylum-seeking families it detains going forward.

Laurie Melrood is a family services consultant to southern Arizona immigrant support organizations, including the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. She co-edited a family unity manual for immigrant parents detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and co-wrote the procedures for immigrant parents detained in ICE facilities with children in Arizona state custody.