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545 migrant children’s parents missing
    2020-10-22  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

LAWYERS enlisted to identify migrant families separated at the U.S. southern border during the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy said in a court filing Tuesday they have not yet tracked down the parents of 545 children, and about two-thirds of those parents have been deported to Central America without their kids.

“Through our litigation, we just reported to the court that the parents of 545 kids — forcibly separated by the Trump administration’s cruel family separation practice – still cannot be found,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) tweeted.

Under the zero tolerance program, the U.S. began separating children from their parents in May 2018, prompting a domestic and international outcry.

Then, six weeks into the practice Trump announced that his administration would stop separating families unless the parents posed “a risk” to their child.

CNN reported that two-thirds of the parents who cannot be found are believed to have been deported.

Children whose mothers and fathers have yet to be located were separated under a 2017 pilot program ahead of the zero tolerance policy, and were deported, NBC News reported.

“It is critical to find out as much as possible about who was responsible for this horrific practice while not losing sight of the fact that hundreds of families have still not been found and remain separated,” Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, was quoted by NBC as saying.

“There is so much more work to be done to find these families.”

The search for the children’s parents has now resumed, as the global coronavirus pandemic briefly hampered the search work.(SD-Agencies)

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