Family Separation Archive
The Council and Georgetown Law Library Publish Family Separation Archive |
On October 13, Georgetown Law Library launched an archive of documents on the Trump administration’s implementation of the Zero Tolerance Policy in 2018, which separated thousands of parents from their children after they crossed into the United States. The archive is composed of hundreds of records collected by the Council. Back in 2018, the Council alongside Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, National Immigrant Justice Center, Kids in Need of Defense, and Women’s Refugee Commission filed a FOIA request on the Trump administration’s implementation of its zero-tolerance policy. As a result of years-long litigation, the Council received over 50,000 responsive documents related to the policy. In 2020, the Council released some of the documents obtained from the FOIA request to demonstrate the harms of the Trump administration policy. And in 2025, the Council launched a platform with data, additional documents and analysis, and stories from people on the front lines of efforts to bring this issue to light. The Council’s FOIA litigation produced thousands of original documents including policy memos, email correspondence, internal reports, and more that have not yet been showcased to the public. These documents, as well as other records from partner organizations collected by the Council, are available to the public on the Digital Georgetown platform. The new archive will provide the public with the chance to explore the thousands of records meticulously organized by Georgetown Law Library shedding transparency into the government’s creation and implementation of its family separation policy. |
Why Does This Matter? |
Read more: The Family Separation Archive |
