A federal judge in San Diego has ordered that children in government custody be reunited with their parents.
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Court-appointed lawyers said Tuesday they had failed to find the parents of the 545 children. They were separated from their children between 2017 and 2018 when they crossed the US border with Mexico. Under the law, adults and children who cross the border illegally are kept in separate detention centers. These children were separated from their parents between July 2017 and June 2018. A San Diego federal judge has ordered that children in government custody be reunited with their parents. It is difficult to find such children, as the government does not have a proper system to track them down. Volunteers went door-to-door in Guatemala and Honduras to find the children or their parents.
In June 2018, more than 2,700 children from families crossing the border illegally from Mexico to the United States were separated from their parents under a ‘zero tolerance’ policy. The procedure was halted after a US district judge ordered it to be abolished. The United States has been widely criticized for its actions. Although the families were reunited on a court order, authorities later learned that from the winter of 2017 to November 2017, 1,556 children were reunited with their parents under the ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy. Was separated from however, these figures were not disclosed. The American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group that went to court against the policy, said the court had set up an executive committee to look into the parents of 485 children. The management committee received telephone numbers of 1,030 children from U.S. authorities, of whom 545 were unaccounted for.
The American Civil Liberties Union says the parents of two-thirds of the 545 children are believed to have returned to their homeland after the cancellation of the Immigrant Protection Program. The union told the court that the volunteers worked hard and diligently to find the parents of the children in their hometowns. But the search was later halted by a global pandemic caused by the coronavirus. However, the limited search has now resumed. The management committee has also advertised free telephone numbers in Spanish to reach the affected families.
