Obama administration placed children with human traffickers, report says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/obama-administration-placed-children-with-human-traffickers-report-says/2016/01/28/39465050-c542-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6f21f7ff4bb9

The fact that issue is much more complex than "Separating families"

How do you prove that these undocumented children are actually belong to the people claiming them when 30% of child trafficking comes through that border? 80% of the girls being raped.

What do you think happens to children who are put in with adults in detention centers/jails? Why are parents sending thousands of kids alone on a very dangerous journey? 10k of the 12k currently in the US under DHS were sent to cross illegaly alone!.

This has been going on a long time because there is no agreeable solution, the recent outrage is focused on trump yet these policies enforced or not have been in place since Clinton years.

2009 CNN - Study: 4 million 'illegal' immigrant children are native-born citizens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK92pCdBKBs&feature=youtu.be
2011 Huffington Post - Deportations Leave Behind Thousands Of Children In Foster Care
2012 New York Times - Deporting Parents Hurts Kids
2012 ColorLines - Nearly 205K Deportations of Parents of U.S. Citizens in Just Over Two Years (archive.is wouldn't work for this)
2012 Denver Post - U.S. immigration policy splits families when parents are deported
2014 San Diego Free Press - Immigration, Deportation, and Family Separation
2014 Vox - What happens when deportation separates parents from their kids?
2014 The Guardian - Orphaned by deportation: the crisis of American children left behind
2015 Humans Rights Watch - Border Enforcement Policies Ensnare Parents of US Citizen Children
2015 Vox - Why is the Obama administration still fighting to keep immigrant families behind bars? (archive.is wouldn't work for this)
2016 Al Jazeera - Separated: Deported mothers and their American children
2016 The Hill - Immigration: deporting parents negatively affects kids' health
Adding more because the narrative is making me mad...

2014 AZ Central - 300 more immigrant children shipped to Arizona (archive.is wouldn't work for this)
2014 Huffington Post - Six Ways America Is Like a Third World Country
2014 NBC - New Detention Facility Opened for Immigrant Families With Kids
2014 Huffington Post - New Photos Depict Horrific Conditions At Border Detention Center
2014 KJZZ - Media Gets First Look At Children Inside Nogales Detention Facility
2014 Al Jazeera - Photos: Inside a detention center for migrant children
2014 ACLU - Civil and human rights groups file administrative complaint seeking immediate agency reform (archive.is wouldn't work for this)
2014 New York Times - Obama Asks for $3.7 Billion to Aid Border
2014 CNN - Border detention of children shames America
2014 New York Times - U.S. Moves to Stop Surge in Illegal Immigration
2015 New York Times Magazine - The Shame of America’s Family Detention Camps
2015 New York Times - Judge Orders Release of Immigrant Children Detained by U.S.
2015 Huffington Post - Pennsylvania Warns Family Immigrant Detention Center: Change Policies Or Lose Your License
2015 Washington Post - Mexican kids held for months as punishment for border-crossing
2015 NBC - Judge: U.S. Violates Agreement in Detention of Immigrant Children
2015 Miami Herald - Obama’s immigration detention policies hurt mothers, children
2015 Huffington Post - Children Send Christmas Wishes To Kids In Immigrant Detention
2016 The Atlantic - Is it an Immigration Detention Facility or a Child-Care Center? (archive.is wouldn't work for this)
2016 Huffington Post - One Child’s Sexual Abuse Allegations Show The Problems With Our Immigration System
2016 Washington Times - Court: Illegal immigrant parents can be detained, children must be released
2016 New York Times - Photos Offer Glimpse Inside Arizona Border Detention Centers
2016 New York Times - U.S. Placed Immigrant Children With Traffickers, Report Says
2016 New York Times - Detention Center Presented as Deterrent to Border Crossings
2016 NPR - When Asylum-Seeking Women And Children Immigrants Are Welcomed Like Criminals
2016 AZ Central - First peek: Immigrant children flood detention center (archive.is wouldn't work for this)
2016 CNN - Families crossing the border: 'We are not criminals'
2016 PRI - These asylum-seekers are being forced to raise their kids in immigration 'jails' (archive.is wouldn't work for this)