Hundreds of migrant children still separated from parents as deadline nears
The Trump administration has just hours before its court-ordered deadline to reunite families it separated at the southern border, but a new court filing Thursday night shows there are still hundreds of parents who have not been reunited with their kids.
The government reported that is has reunited 1,442 children ages 5 and older with their parents who were in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and 378 have been “discharged in other appropriate circumstances,” either to a sponsor or to their parents in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custody.
But there are another 711 children in the care of the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement whose parents are either not eligible for reunification or unavailable.
hat figure includes 120 children whose parents waived their right to reunification, 431 children whose parents are outside the U.S. and 94 children for whom the parent’s location is still under review, Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys said in the filing.
In the joint status report, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said data from the government shows as many as 468 separated parents were deported without their children. The civil rights group asked the court to reunite those families within seven days of confirming they are members of the class action lawsuit the organization has filed on behalf of parents who wish to be reunited with their children.
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