Media Contact: Leezia Dhalla, press@fwd.us

AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: Legal experts, individuals from mixed-status families, and those directly impacted by family separations in the interior, as well as at the U.S.-Mexico border due to the dangerous “Remain in Mexico” program.

The Trump Administration’s separation of families at the border was one of the most devastating and unpopular decisions of the last four years. These policies were widely reported on and were overwhelmingly rejected by people across the country, but the Trump Administration’s policy of separating families extended far beyond the border. More than 8 million U.S. citizens live with undocumented family members, and hundreds of thousands of these families have been separated because of President Trump’s interior enforcement policies. Through a series of executive orders – making essentially every undocumented person a “priority” for removal – the Trump Administration targeted mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers for deportation, many of whom have lived in the U.S. for decades, separating thousands of U.S. citizen children from their parents.