US has reunited 100 children taken from parents under Trump [A happier Christmas for these families]

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US has reunited 100 children taken from parents under Trump

A Biden administration effort to reunite children and parents who were separated under President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance border policy has made increasing progress as it nears the end of its first year



By BEN FOX Associated Press December 23, 2021, 2:57 PM

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WASHINGTON -- A Biden administration effort to reunite children and parents who were separated under President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance border policy has made increasing progress as it nears the end of its first year.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that 100 children, mostly from Central America, are back with their families and about 350 more reunifications are in process after it took steps to enhance the program.

“I would have loved to have this happen much more quickly. But we are making progress and I feel like we’re gaining momentum," said Michelle Brané, executive director of the administration's Family Reunification Task Force.

President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were separated under the Trump administration's widely condemned practice of forcibly separating parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage illegal immigration.........................

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1. The separation never should

have happened. It's good to see that some families are being reunited, but the emotional and psychological damage can never be undone. It is one of America's great shames. Unlike other American shames, like slavery and the genocide of Native people, this occurred in modern times, just a couple years ago, and far too many Americans were silent about it, indifferent, or even complicit in their approval of it.