US steps up effort to unite families separated under Trump

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US steps up effort to unite families separated under Trump
By BEN FOX


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is expanding its effort to find and reunite migrant families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under President Donald Trump as part of a zero-tolerance policy on illegal crossings.

A federal task force is launching a new program Monday that officials say will expand efforts to find parents, many of whom are in remote Central American communities, and help them return to the United States, where they will get at least three years of legal residency and other assistance.

“We recognize that we can’t make these families completely whole again,” said Michelle Brané, executive director of the administration’s Family Reunification Task Force. “But we want to do everything we can to put them on a path towards a better life.”

The new program, which includes a contract with the International Organization for Migration to help with the often-complex task of getting expelled migrants back to the U.S., is a reflection of just how difficult it has been for President Joe Biden’s administration to address a chapter in U.S. immigration history that drew widespread condemnation.

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https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mexico-united-states-immigration-central-america-cc07fbfe2ef379517683e79023baca47

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1. Next question: Will the Biden Administration invalidate the Trump program

of termination of parental rights, followed by adoption of these children, to return them to their biological and rightful parents?