EFE. – Attorneys appointed by a federal court to reunify children separated from their families for the “zero tolerance” policy of the former US president Donald Trump They have managed to find the parents of more than 100 migrant children, but they are still trying to locate those of 506 children, reported this Wednesday CNN.
In a court filing on Wednesday, attorneys reported that they are still looking for the parents of 506 children separated of their families in the border between the United States and Mexico in 2018, the chain assured.
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A month ago, lawyers were still looking for the parents of 611 minors, so in recent weeks they managed to find the relatives of 105 children. These findings came while working with the president’s government Joe Biden.
The separation of thousands of migrant families that crossed the border from Mexico without documents is one of the most painful chapters inherited from the government of Trump, which used the “zero tolerance” policy announced in April 2018, although this practice began as a pilot program in July 2017 in the border area of El Paso, Texas.
A June 2018 ruling by the federal judge of the Southern California District Court in San Diego, Dana Sabraw, halted the application of that policy and a month later the Department of Health and Human Services identified “2,551 separate children covered by the court order ”.
By August of that year, 2,000 of the nearly 2,600 children identified had been reunited with their parents, but not some 545 children whose reunification was complicated due to their parents being sent back to their countries of origin. Weeks later, the number increased to more than 600 separated minors.
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Lawyers had been unable to locate the parents or children of 362 families. In the case of 183 families, only children could be located.
The group of lawyers appointed by a federal court for reunifications had admitted not being able to locate the parents in part because of the little information collected by the Trump administration at the time of the separations.
A report by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, released last January ensures that the Trump administration knew of the negative consequences of its order to federal prosecutors along the southwest border of the United States of to detain migrants who crossed illegally into the interior of the country and separate them from their children.
The White House formed a group in early February that took on the task of reuniting separated migrant families.
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