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U.S. reunites some immigrant families separated at border under ‘cruel’ Trump administration policy, DHS secretary says
By Kevin Sieff and Adam Taylor
May 3, 2021 at 10:49 a.m. EDT
Four migrant parents separated from their children at the U.S. border under the Trump administration and deported alone will be allowed to return to the United States this week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Monday.
The reunions will mark the beginning of a process that will stretch on for months and possibly years, as separated parents are ferried back to the United States from around the world.
More than 1,000 families remain apart, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The parents were deported alone, mostly to Central America, in 2017 or 2018. Their children have since grown up with relatives across the United States.
Some of those children were so young when they were taken from their parents that they barely remember their mothers or fathers. Others have forgotten the Indigenous dialects in which they once spoke to their parents.
“Today is just the beginning,” Mayorkas said in a statement released in the early hours of the day. “We are reuniting the first group of families, many more will follow, and we recognize the importance of providing these families with the stability and resources they need to heal.”
As a candidate, Biden promised to reunite those parents and children, calling the Trump administration’s policy of family separation “criminal.”
Speaking to reporters ahead of the announcement, Mayorkas said that four families will be reunited. Two of them include mothers who were separated from their children in late 2017, one Honduran and the other Mexican, he said.
Some of the children who will be reunited with their parents this week were as young as 3 when they were separated.
The Trump administration formally implemented its policy of “zero tolerance” from April to June of 2018, when a federal judge ordered an end to the policy and demanded that separated families be reunited.
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