US still has 2,053 children separated from families
Date
6/24/2018 7:47:11 AM
(MENAFN) The government of the United States said it still had 2,053 children in its custody who were separated from their parents under President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, and set out its most detailed plans yet on how it would reunite families.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it had a "well coordinated" process in place - in the face of criticism from lawyers for parents and children who have said they have seen little evidence of an organized system.
So far 522 children had been reunited with parents; the agency added in a fact sheet published three days after Trump ended his policy of separating families on the US-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages triggered outrage at home and abroad.
The DHS said: "The United States government knows the location of all children in its custody and is working to reunite them with their families."
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