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July 13, 2018

Trump Admin Couldn't Reunite a Dozen Migrant Kids Because Parents Already Deported
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In immigration news, only 57 of the more than 100 children under the age
of 5 whom immigration officials separated from their parents have been
reunited, despite a Tuesday court-imposed deadline requiring all of
these young children be reunited. On Thursday, the Trump administration
said it could not reunite 46 children because their parents have been
accused of crimes, because the children were not related to the people
they were separated from, or, in at least a dozen cases, because U.S.
immigration authorities had already deported their parents. In total,
about 3,000 separated children are detained in facilities across the
United States. A federal judge has ordered all separated children be
reunited with their parents by July 26.


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