Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2020A Call to Action: Communication Harm Reduction for Immigrant Children Separated from Families AUTHOR:
ABSTRACT An especially tragic component of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” crackdown on illegal border crossing has been the separation of thousands of Latino children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border since summer 2017. In November 2020, lawyers working to reunite those families reported being unable to reach the deported parents of 545 of those children (Merchant, 2020). The children, many of whom were infants and toddlers when they were separated from their parents, have been cared for by government employees in Health and Human Services (HHS) shelters for months, pending home studies and international legal issues. Some have also been placed with relatives residing in the U.S., while their parents have been prosecuted. DOI: DOWNLOAD FULL ARTICLE |