After months of seemingly ignoring the issue of immigration, President Trump and Joe Biden faced tough questions in last week’s debate about their past policies. One moment that stood out was an ...

The phrase “kids in cages” has become a catchall for the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement in recent years, to the president’s evident frustration. As he pointed ...

Former President Barack Obama’s top immigration chief in charge of removing illegal immigrants said that the “cages” Democrats have accused President Trump of housing children in were the ...

The Trump administration is taking hundreds of migrant children already residing in the United States out of their homes and ...

Bedard, Paul. "Barack’s ICE Chief: Cages Were Obama’s Idea." Washington Examiner. 26 June 2019.. Crandall, Brent. "New McAllen Facility to House 1,000 Immigrant Children." ...

PolitiFact, "Fact-checking Biden on use of cages for immigrants during Obama administration," Sept. 13, 2019 PolitiFact, " Fact-checking Donald Trump, Joe Biden in the final presidential debate ...

A video with over 44,000 views on TikTok appears to show large cages and claims they are “human prison cages” that local police had promised “would be destroyed by October of 2020” yet were still ...

I joined Human Rights Watch five and half years ago and have since researched and authored a series of in-depth reports and other materials on issues such as deaths in immigration detention linked ...

During a June 2019 interview at an event by The Aspen Institute, Johnson was asked to speak about a photo that depicts him "walking past what appears to be children in cages." "Very clearly, chain ...

The claim: Children are being trafficked and held in cages around the U.S. A viral Facebook post about human trafficking showing what appear to be children in cages and wrapped in foil blankets ...

The Obama administration did hold immigrants in chain-link enclosures described as "cages" at border processing facilities. But the photo shared in the Facebook posts is not from his tenure. The ...

Shortly after, he issued a stricter immigration policy in October 2024, beefing up border controls and deploying specialized units to crack down on the increase of migrants and human traffickers.