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By Chris Riotta
Donald Trump's
administration has taken credit for meeting a court-ordered deadline to
reunite thousands of migrant families it separated at the border —
despite hundreds of children remaining apart from their parents.
More than 700 migrant kids have not been reunified with their
parents since the White House launched a "zero tolerance" policy along
the US-Mexico border. That policy began the systematic separation of
families, including those legally seeking asylum, forcing children into
immigrant detention centres and makeshift “tent cities.”
The administration said
it reunified all eligible migrant children — nearly 1,800 — with their
family members by Wednesday’s 6.00 p.m. deadline, claiming the more than
700 outstanding cases could not be resolved due to outside
circumstances.
In some instances, children could not be reunited due to a parent or
guardian’s criminal record or suffering from a communicable disease. However, in the majority of cases, families have not yet been reunited
because the parent was deported or left the country without their child.
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Source: The Independent
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