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US still working to reunite 2,053 children with families

Monday, 25 June 2018


The US government said it still had 2,053 children in its custody who were separated from their parents under President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, reports Reuters.
It set out its most detailed plans yet on how it would reunite families.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said late on Saturday it had a "well coordinated" process in place.
It came in the face of criticism from lawyers for parents and children who have said they have seen little evidence of an organised system.
A total of 522 children had already been reunited with parents, the agency added in a fact sheet.
The fact sheet was published three days after Trump ended his policy of separating families on the US-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages triggered outrage at home and abroad.
The new details came after more than two months of confusion how detained migrant parents, who are shuttled from facility to facility run by different government agencies, would ever reunite with their children, who are sent to shelters and foster homes scattered across the country.