Temple
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 | | Subject: 1,000 Migrant Children Not Returned Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:38 pm | |
| 2-2-2023
Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump
yet to be reunited with parents.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Nearly 1,000 migrant children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by the administration of former President Donald Trump have yet to be reunited with their parents despite a two-year effort by President Joe Biden.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Thursday of the 998 children still separated, 148 were in the process of reunification.
Biden, a Democrat, issued an executive order shortly after taking office in January 2021 that established a task force to reunite children separated from their families under Trump, a Republican and immigration hardliner, calling such separations a "human tragedy."
The Trump administration split apart thousands of migrant families under a blanket "zero-tolerance" policy that called for the prosecution of all unauthorized border crossers in spring 2018.
Government watchdogs and advocates have found the separations began before and continued after the policy's official start.
DHS said the task force's painstaking work of combing through "patchwork" information kept by the Trump administration on the policy had so far found 3,924, mostly Central American, children were separated at the border.
"The number of new families identified continues to increase, as families come forward and identify themselves," DHS said in a fact sheet on the work of the task force released Thursday. To date the task force has reunited 600 families.
 Reuters
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Grackle
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| | Subject: Re: 1,000 Migrant Children Not Returned Fri Feb 03, 2023 7:48 pm | |
| Props to Trump for his zero tolerance policy |
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