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December 4, 2020

Lawyers Working to Reunite Immigrant Families Finally Obtain Data from U.S. Government
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In immigration news, NBC News reports attorneys tasked with reuniting
children separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border have
finally been given key information critical to finding the children's
relatives, after months of pleading for the information. Documents filed
in federal court in California last week say attorneys have now obtained
phone numbers and other data that had not previously been made available
by the Trump administration. This comes as lawyers say they have found
the parents of nearly 40 children among 666 refugee kids whose families
they couldn't track down. The children were taken away from their
families between April and June 2018 at the height of Trump's "zero
tolerance" family separation policy.


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