Trump administration separates thousands of migrant families 'zero-tolerance policy'

President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy split more than 5,000 children from their families at the Mexico border during his first term. 

Border crossings sit at a record low nearly a year into his second administration and a new wave of immigration enforcement is dividing families inside the USFederal officials and their local law enforcement partners are detaining tens of thousands of asylum-seekers and migrants.

Detainees are moved repeatedly, then deported, or held in poor conditions for weeks or



months before asking to go home. 

The federal government was holding an average of more than 66,000 people in November, the highest on record.

During the first Trump administration, families were forcibly separated at the border and authorities struggled to find children in a vast shelter system because government computer systems weren’t linked. 

Now parents inside the United States are being arrested by immigration authorities and separated from their families during prolonged detention.