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Citing trauma impact, treatment providers condemn family separations
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30320
Subject(s) - executive order , administration (probate law) , immigration , order (exchange) , political science , executive director , executive branch , law , psychology , business , management , politics , economics , finance
This spring, hundreds of children were separated from their parents as they tried to cross the southern border into the United States. The separations were part of a Trump administration immigration strategy. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered the “zero tolerance” policy. Since early May, the number of separations has been 2,342. The outcry against the separations, which became widely publicized in June, was so great that President Trump ordered a stop to them via an executive order. But the executive order isn't going to end the traumas for these families and children, about 300 of whom were younger than age 5.