The U.S. government withdrew Thursday from settlement negotiations to end lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who were forcibly separated under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border policy.

HOUSTON (AP) — Months before the Trump administration separated thousands of families at the U.S.-Mexico border, a “pilot program” in Texas left child-welfare officials scrambling to find empty beds for babies taken from their parents in a preview of bigger problems to come, according to a report released Thursday by congressional Democrats.

We are learning a lesson that undocumented immigrants have long known: that sometimes to protect those we love, we have to stay away from them. But it doesn’t make it any less difficult.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A U.S. judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration is operating within its authority when separating families stopped at the Mexico border, rejecting arguments that it was quietly returning to widespread practices that drew international condemnation.

HOUSTON (AP) — A new lawsuit blames the Trump administration’s family separations for the death by suicide of a Honduran father after being separated from his 3-year-old child.

Organization says Trump immigration policies demonstrate devastating impact on more than six million U.S.-citizen children.

In McAllen alone, the Texas Civil Rights Project identified hundreds of family separations after the June injunction.

Happening now.

“The Trump administration is waging a deliberate campaign of human rights violations against asylum- seekers, in order to broadcast globally that the United States no longer welcomes refugees.”

Demands reunification of separated families and halt to deportation of parents.

In powerful performance, children and youth stand up for others who have been harmed by Trump’s cruel immigration policies.

Even when they knew this was wrong, they did nothing.

Don’t you hear the cries?

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on two different bills that seek to formally end the family separation policy.

Over 3,500 people have signed up on familiesbelong.org

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Trump administration official said Thursday the number of family separations at the border has fallen since last summer’s zero tolerance policy, and they are done only for compelling reasons.

As undocumented immigrants from Ecuador, Madeline and Jorge had long lived with the risk that they could one day be arrested. On the day Jorge was taken by ICE outside their home in Queens, Madeline, fearing she and her daughters could be next, fled to New Jersey.

The mother —who has been separated since September 2017 under the Trump administration’s pilot family separation policy in El Paso— surprised her two children Tuesday night at a family gathering in Philadelphia. They had been apart for three and a half years.

HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention center, including a 4-year-old girl with a broken arm requiring surgery, according to lawyers for the families.

Would all the children in your family (or extended family) pass the biological litmus test?

BOSTON (AP) — A Guatemalan family seeking asylum has been reunited in Massachusetts after challenging their separation under the Trump administration’s controversial “Remain in Mexico” asylum process.