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February 3, 2023

1,000 Children Are Yet to Be Reunited with Families After Separation at U.S.-Mexico Border
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In immigration news, nearly 1,000 asylum-seeking families remain
separated after their children were forcibly taken at the U.S.-Mexico
border under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy. That's
according to the Homeland Security Department, which reported on
Thursday that a task force created by the Biden administration has only
been able to reunite some 689 children with their parents and relatives.
An estimated 5,500 migrant children were separated from their families
during Trump's time in office; thousands have since been found and
reunited with loved ones, largely due to the work of advocacy groups
like the ACLU. President Biden had vowed to stop the practice and to pay
reparations to the families separated by Trump. But his administration
has now refused to pay restitution, while data shows Biden immigration
officials have separated hundreds of families at the southern border.


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