Trump admin identifies 471 parents deported without children during family separations
The Trump administration said Wednesday that it has identified 471 migrant parents who were removed from the country without first being reunited with or choosing whether to reunite with their detained children.
CNN reported that the Trump administration made the revelation in a court filing in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of a migrant woman seeking asylum who was separated from her daughter.
The filing comes the same day that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the House Homeland Security Committee, saying: "There was no parent who has been deported, to my knowledge, without multiple opportunities to take their children with them."
Court filings also revealed that the government has completed reunifications for 2,741 out of 2,816 children who were separated from their parents by immigration authorities.
A judge ruled last year that the Trump administration must halt its policy of separating families suspected of crossing the border illegally, and must work to reunify families already affected by the policy.
https://thehill.com/latino/432972-trump-admin-identifies-471-parents-deported-without-children-during-family-separations