Biden task force finds 5,600 files that may identify more migrant families separated under Trump
Source: NBC News
A senior DHS official said Wednesday that the files, which are from 2017, may reveal “a few additional families” who were not yet identified.
April 7, 2021, 12:37 PM EDT
By Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley
LOS ANGELES — President Joe Biden’s family separation task force has identified 5,600 “yet-to-be-reviewed” files from the first half of 2017 that may hold evidence of additional family separations during the Trump administration, a senior Department of Homeland Security official said Wednesday.
“We found the list we had when we came in was not comprehensive and included large timeframes that had not been reviewed,” said the official, who was briefing reporters on the progress of the task force.
The official said the new files may reveal “a few additional families” who have not yet been identified.
The new files are from the Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement between Jan. 20. 2017 and July 2017, a time period not included in the lawsuit between the ACLU and the Trump administration over family separations.
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