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May 18, 2019, 6:49 PM EDT
By Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley
The Trump administration has identified at least 1,712 migrant children it may have separated from their parents in addition to those separated under the zero tolerance policy, according to court transcripts of a Friday hearing.
U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the Trump administration to identify children separated before the zero tolerance policy went into effect in May 2018, resulting in the separation of over 2,800 children.
Sabraw previously ordered those migrant families to be reunited, but the additional children were identified more recently when the Inspector General for Health and Human Services estimated thousands more may have been separated before the policy was officially underway.
Other potentially separated migrant children could still be identified. The government has reviewed the files of 4,108 children out of 50,000 so far ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1-700-additional-separated-migrant-children-identified-trump-administration-n1007426
struggle4progress
(118,278 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)on the board of the company running the childrens detention centers.
Arkansas Granny
(31,514 posts)It's like they never intended to reunite children and parents.