Japan quake, ICE children arrests and Johnson & Johnson talc deal
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Hi, I'm Kim Vinnell in Whanganui, New Zealand. It's Tuesday, July 28th. Today, a Reuters exclusive reveals thousands of migrant children and their relatives have been arrested after a US child welfare agency shared hundreds of thousands of tips with ICE. Johnson & Johnson is set to pay $5.5 billion to settle lawsuits claiming its talc powder caused cancer. And is 22 sick days a year too many? Germany thinks so, and it's cracking down. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week.
First, with some breaking news, I'm Elena Casas in London. A major earthquake has hit Japan's Kyushu region, knocking out power to thousands of homes with a preliminary 7.1 magnitude. A tsunami warning issued has since been withdrawn. Companies including Sony and chipmaker TSMC have plants in the area of the quake. This is a developing story. Head to Reuters.com and the Reuters app for the latest. Now back to Kim for the rest of today's news.
Thousands of children have been arrested in the US thanks to tip-offs from a government program dedicated to caring for unaccompanied migrant children and their relatives. An exclusive Reuters investigation has found that since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, the Office of Refugee Resettlement has shared more than 460,000 leads with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That's led to the arrest of more than 12,000 people. Reporter Christina Cook spoke with Aurora and her six-year-old daughter, who were among those caught up.
So Aurora's story is really emblematic of this change.
She came to the U.S. illegally two years ago through the desert, and she left her daughter behind in Mexico with a relative because she thought that that journey would be too dangerous for her. She settled in Mississippi, and last year a family member brought her daughter to the border.
That's something that happens somewhat regularly.
Parents cross into the US first and their kids come alone later. Because when children cross alone, they're meant to be looked after. The Office of Refugee Resettlement is legally bound to ensure migrant children are released from detention as soon as is safely possible, regardless of the legal status of the adult they're released to, which is often the parent. Traditionally, the whole process has been walled off from immigration enforcement.
But the day before she got her daughter back, Aurora was visited by ICE agents who asked her about her daughter and they told her to come for a check-in the next week. When she came, they detained both her and her daughter.
Aurora says she and her daughter were sent to a detention centre in Texas. She says her daughter is so traumatised she's afraid of appointments of any kind, worried even a doctor's visit will see her separated from her mum.
Aurora is traumatised.
The Department of Homeland Security told Reuters ICE was given potential investigative leads as part of efforts to find unaccompanied children who were placed with unvetted sponsors, including some with criminal records.
The Trump administration says that previous administrations didn't have sufficient vetting processes and that kids ended up in dangerous situations. Former ORR officials say the Trump administration is essentially turning what was more of a child welfare agency into another way to pursue their mass deportation goals.
The Federal Reserve meets today with markets weighing whether the central bank's focus will stay on containing inflation, which could require rate hikes, or whether new Fed chair Kevin Walsh will bow to Trump's repeated calls for cuts. Here's MorningBid host Mike Dolan.
Yeah, the Fed begins its two-day meeting today. We don't get the decision until Wednesday evening. And it's a super busy week for markets because either side of that decision, we get these huge hyperscaler corporate earnings. But the Fed story in itself is very, very interesting now. We've had a $10 plus drop in oil prices this week, yet no change in the expectations for a possible hike as soon as Wednesday.
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