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spanone

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Sun Jun 24, 2018, 08:08 AM Jun 2018

Government details how separated families will be reunited -- eventually

Washington (CNN)The Trump administration is releasing its plan for putting back together the thousands of families it separated at the border -- but the reunions won't happen quickly.

In a release Saturday night, the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services said 2,053 children were still in the custody of HHS and awaiting being returned to their parents.

Under the plan, however, those children will keep waiting in custody, with reunifications only happening once the parents' deportation proceedings are completed. The families will either be reunited before deportation or, if the parent is released from detention, after the parent applies to serve as the child's sponsor under HHS rules.

As part of the reunification effort, the government is building out better organized databases linking the parent and children's information and whereabouts and working to better facilitate communication between them, the fact sheet said.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/politics/separated-families-trump-reunification-plan/index.html
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Government details how separated families will be reunited -- eventually (Original Post) spanone Jun 2018 OP
The babies should be returned first without delay katmondoo Jun 2018 #1
trump will do as little as possible to speed the process up...imho spanone Jun 2018 #2
When the baby turns 18, he/she can apply to search angstlessk Jun 2018 #3
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