Mayor learns more than 200 separated migrant children in NYC

President Donald Trump's administration separated nearly 2,000 immigrant children from their parents at the border over the span of six weeks from mid-April through May.

Ferguson made the announcement outside a federal prison in the city of SeaTac in the state of Washington.

Just the day before, Trump had claimed his administration's hands were tied without congressional action. The states set to join Ferguson's lawsuit are Massachusetts, California, Maryland, Oregon, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Minnesota.

The Journal talked to a vice president of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, who took 150 children that were separated from their parents with foster families around the country. But the implementation of "zero tolerance" by the Trump administration has led to more prosecutions and, thus, more separations.

The Democratic mayor said he didn't know until that morning that such large numbers of children taken from their parents were being brought to NY.

The policy, introduced in May by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, caused widespread outrage in the U.S. this week after pictures of children being separated from their parents and placed in detention were splashed across the media. And members on the fence over pending immigration legislation were also heading to the White House to meet with Trump.

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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFamily immigration detention centers could be at capacity within days: "report Trump likely to meet with Putin in July: "report DOJ requests military lawyers to help prosecute immigration crimes: "report MORE ended the separations on Wednesday with an executive order, but it's not clear how that will effect children already separated from their parents or guardians". She was heckled at a restaurant Tuesday evening and has faced protesters at her home.

"The dilemma is that if you're weak, if you're weak, which some people would like you to be, if you're really, really pathetically weak, the country's going to be overrun with millions of people", Trump said.

Schumer alleged that this crisis was wilfully and purposefully created by Trump through his zero tolerance policy at the border. "But I am working on something - it never ends!"

"T$3 o watch those families broken apart in real time puts to us a very simple question: are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together?" If children are to be sent here he should demand paperwork connecting those children to a parent somewhere.

He said he was looking into whether the court could block deportation of parents until they have been reunited with their children, and whether it could force the Trump administration to reunite those separated. Other recent rulings, upheld on appeal, affirm the children's rights to a bond hearing and require better conditions at the Border Patrol's short-term holding facilities.