Whereas the Trump Administration began a zero tolerance policy in the summer of 2017, officially announced in the spring of 2018, that led to family separations totaling nearly 3,000 children taken from their parents or caregivers; Whereas Trump’s zero tolerance policies have resulted in preverbal children, children as young as 4 months, being separated from their families, some of whom have been kept in cages, many forced to sleep on the floor, and most held in cells with the lights on 24 hours a day; Whereas there have been numerous reports of children being forced to take care of other children in lieu of proper adult supervision; Whereas at least seven children are known to have died in immigration custody since 2018, after nearly a decade in which no child reportedly died while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); Whereas pursuant to a 2018 court order in Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Health and Human Services has identified 2,737 children who were separated from their families with a full understanding that the Department of Health and Human Services lacked the system to reunite families; Whereas the Department of Health and Human Services’ identification of 2,737 children is not a complete accounting of the total number of children who have been separated from their families, as thousands were not included in the lawsuit and more than 700 separations have occurred since the 2018 court order; Whereas there is still no integrated interagency system to properly track or share information about separated families; Whereas the Trump administration has repeatedly incited fear in immigrant communities around the country, most recently with the threat of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids after the July 4 holiday