Chris's conviction was vacated back in April, but the state fought it tooth and nail and he's only just being let out now - they're appealing the case so he's still on bail. boltsmag.org/chris-duncan...

...And on a piece I wrote last December for
@nybooks.com about what might happen to these families under a second Trump administration. Many of the predictions in this piece, even the more extreme ones, have come true: www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

This follows up on reporting I did in 2023 and 2024 for
@nymag.com about the efforts - still ongoing - to find and reunify these families: nymag.com/intelligence...

By now, Orgullosa and her children - including her younger son, a US citizen - have been back in Honduras for 4 months. Trump's DOJ is arguing they left the country voluntarily and refusing to bring them back. www.thecut.com/article/fami...

Meanwhile, new family separations are occurring both at the border - illegal under the terms of the settlement in the family separation case - and in the interior. www.thecut.com/article/fami...

There are myriad legal protections in place for these families - but the Trump administration is flouting them. “There was a safety net in place,” an attorney who's worked on family separation since 2018 said. “It’s being torn apart thread by thread.” www.thecut.com/article/fami...

Another formerly separated mother, Maricela, was deported in the span of a long weekend - she had to call her son from Guatemala to tell him the news. www.thecut.com/article/fami...

Over the next two months, ICE subjected this mother and her kids - who have valid humanitarian parole in the US - to a relentless pressure campaign. Their entire world fell apart.
www.thecut.com/article/fami...

Orgullosa & her 5 year old daughter Gloria were separated in 2018. They’ve spent the past 7 years trying to put that trauma behind them. When ICE put an ankle monitor on Orgullosa in front of her kids in May & told her to leave the US, all of that progress was gone in an instant.

A handful of formerly separated parents have been deported. Dozens more have been detained by ICE. And the Trump administration has relentlessly breached & undermined the legal settlement protecting these families.

www.thecut.com/article/fami...

This about knocked me flat: "However, I know the feeling of being at school and not being offered the same food as your friends, or being warned, “you don’t have any money left." Now, faces of all ages ask me: What will happen next? How will we afford to feed and clothe our families?"