The steering committee of pro-bono attorneys and advocatessaid it had yet to find the parents of 506 children, down from 611 on Jan. 14, 2021, the last time it reported data to a federal judge overseeing the process.
Of those 506 children, the lawyers said the parents of about 322 are believed to have been deported from the U.S.,The lawyers are not required by the judge to say how many of the parents and children have actually been reunified.The Biden administration recently formed a task force that will place the responsibility of finding and reuniting the families separated by, primarily under the"zero tolerance policy" of 2018, in the hands of the federal government.
Lawyers for the Justice Department said they expect the task force will"resolve many — if not all — outstanding issues" related to the lawsuit out of the Southern District of California that resulted in the reunification process overseen by the judge. One reason it has been so hard to find parents who were separated from their children is that many agreed to be deported without their children in order to allow their children to remain in the U.S. to claim asylum, their lawyers say.
Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project and a lawyer representing the separated families in the lawsuit, has said the task force should commit to bringing back those deported parents to the U.S. under special protections in order to reunite with their children.Julia Ainsley is a correspondent covering the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
NBCLatino They still need to be found!!! It’s our responsibility to reunite these families!!
NBCLatino TrumpKills
NBCLatino The Biden Administration has managed to do with the Trump Administration couldn't do in years
NBCLatino Lets hope the parents will be found and the healing can begin. This must be so very traumatic for the poor children.
NBCLatino Find them
NBCLatino These facilities are still open under the Biden administration they didn’t just magically go away. If you’re going to criticize one then criticize the other for doing the exact same thing it’s only fair.
NBCLatino All of them reunited
NBCLatino Trump misadministration officials who created and overseen this family separation policy should be charged in the Hague with crimes against humanity.
NBCLatino Trump said he couldn’t. So many things Trump couldn’t do that hurt so many. Now Republicans worship him at CPAC like he was a god. That’s the GOP at its lowest ever, worshipping false idols
NBCLatino Kindly working
NBCLatino I can’t find my owners. Send me cash 4 me haircut. $mattedDog
NBCLatino Keep families together - in Mexico
LizbethMRoberts NBCLatino That is great news !!!!!!
NBCLatino Amazing what you can accomplish when you actually try 😎
NBCLatino I’m confused about how it is at all an issue to reunite the close to 200 parents who weren’t deported...
NBCLatino But both sides 🤔🤔
NBCLatino Thanks POTUS !! Man keeps his word!
NBCLatino I'd been informed that both sides were in fact the same 🤔
NBCLatino So the Trump administration lied about the difficulty of reuniting the families that the Trump administration separated.
TVietor08 NBCLatino Every single family united is a good step forward
SamwiseTheDrunk NBCLatino 322 orphans. I'm glad we found some, but the former guy created 322 orphans. We need to do everything in our power to reunite them. Bring the parents back, hell bring the grandparents back. And every one should be fast tracked for citizenship
Out5p0ken NBCLatino 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼❤️❤️
NBCLatino And who believes this crap. Still in same cages. But now they are not cages. Lol
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NBCLatino Still a lot of work to do.
NBCLatino So .. Who was going to 'profit' from these 322 children? Were they being put in a paid group home? Fosters getting paid High $$$ Was someone planning on keeping these kids forever? Why did they not send the kids with the parents when they deported them?
NBCLatino 'The cages are bad!' to now 'Yeah, we still have the cages...but they're not as bad'
NBCLatino This makes me feel happy
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NBCLatino Awful awful awful. Deporting people without their children is just beyond heartless.
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