Migrant parents given option of deportation without their kids

As it stands, if parents are being held in detention — whether or not they've applied for asylum — they cannot be reunited with their children except for deportation. If a parent has applied for asylum, and has been granted release until their hearing, they are then able to work toward being reunited with their children.

• An SPLC Attorney told CNN's Nick Valencia that many of the migrant parents "are being pressured to sign this before they’ve even seen a judge, and despite not having a final order of removal.”
• Families who have been caught crossing the border since Trump's executive order are being held in detention together, indefinitely, making them less likely to have been separated.
• This comes amid other reports that the Trump administration is planning to block anyone who crosses the border illegally from being granted asylum.