Immigrant raids could lead to more family separations – Roll Call

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Immigrant raids could lead to more family separations

CQ on Congress, Episode 161

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is one of the lawmakers voicing concerns about the conditions in migrant detention centers. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

By Jinitzail Hernández, Micaela Rodríguez, Shawn Zeller and Tanvi Misra

Posted July 12, 2019 at 3:42pm

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The Trump administration says it will round up undocumented immigrants who have missed a court date in an effort to deter others migrants from seeking refuge in the United States. But raids could exacerbate family separations, report CQ Roll Call’s Tanvi Misra and Jinitzail Hernandez, who just returned from visiting one of the largest migrant detention centers in Homestead, Fla., where the government is holding 2,000 teenage immigrants.

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