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THE HILL: HHS sued for documents related to child separation policy
A government watchdog on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for documents related to migrant children being separated from their families at the U.S. border.
POLITICO PULSE: Azar faces Senate Finance on drug prices
Advocates seize on Azar testimony to protest Scott Lloyd's refugee work. Equity Forward this morning is launching full-page ads in the New York Times, POLITICO and Lloyd's hometown paper to ask why the director of the HHS refugee office has avoided public comments for more than two months.
WASHINGTON POST HEALTH 202: HHS Secretary Alex Azar stars in liberal group's attack ads on migrant crisis
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is the subject of a new ad campaign focused on his role in the ongoing crisis surrounding the reunification of migrant children with their parents.
WASHINGTON POST HEALTH 202: Meet the man in charge of the HHS agency overseeing migrant children
Scott Lloyd heads the federal agency that’s become central in the political maelstrom over the Trump administration’s now-reverted policy separating migrant children from their families at the southern border. Yet Lloyd has said nothing publicly about the matter.
VICE: The Man Trump Put In Charge Of Separated Children Has Almost No Experience With Them
The Trump administration has so far separated more than 2,000 undocumented children, including infants and toddlers, from their parents at the border. And the man leading the department responsible for these kids’ health and safety has almost no experience working with refugees and migrants.
MY SAN ANTONIO: Trump immigration policies endanger Texas Republicans ahead of midterm elections
San Antonio Republican Will Hurd was the first elected official to look inside the Trump administration’s new tent city in Tornillo for unaccompanied youths caught crossing the border illegally, and recognized the president’s immigration policy could cost him his job.
ROLL CALL: Congressional Campaigns Weaponize Family Separation Policy
Candidates in both parties who are running in tight races want to weaponize the policy of separating child migrants from their parents at the U.S-Mexico border.
MIAMI HERALD: Voters in Carlos Curbelo's district are opposed to separating families at the border, poll shows
Two-thirds of voters in Miami Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo's congressional district are opposed to a newly enforced Trump administration policy that separates parents from their children when they cross the border illegally, according to a new poll commissioned by Equity Forward.
MIC: Today in Trump's America: Polls show family separations could imperil House Republicans
Outrage over the Trump administration’s policy to separate undocumented immigrant families at the border grew to a fever pitch Monday night after ProPublica released gut-wrenching audio of young undocumented girls hysterically crying after being separated from their parents at the border.
SLATE: Trump Adds Another Anti-Science, Anti-Choice Woman to Oversee Critical Health Programs
The newest addition to Donald Trump’s ragtag band of anti-science religious fundamentalists at the Department of Health and Human Services is Diane Foley, who will help manage the federal government’s family-planning program.