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#human-rights

Fundamental rights and freedoms inherent to all persons, as codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and binding international treaties. This tag covers broad-spectrum violations not captured by more specific rights tags.

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Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern

Zero Tolerance: 5,500+ Children Separated, HHS Lost Track of Hundreds

Zero tolerance created systematic family separation as deliberate policy — not incidentally but intentionally, with separation designed as a deterrent. The administration did not build a system to track which children belonged to which parents. A federal judge ordered reunification within 30 days; the government said it could not comply. In October 2020, ACLU lawyers reported they still could not reach the parents of 545 children — many of whom had been deported to Central America without their children, without being told where their children were.