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The Daunting Reunification Task Continues as the Biden Administration Reunites 400 Children Trump Separated From Their Families
On his first day in office, President Biden sent Congress a bill creating for undocumented individuals a pathway to citizenship, signed a memorandum directing the Homeland Security secretary to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and an executive order repealing “the former guy,” Donald Trump’s, Muslim ban.
A month later, Biden ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to review Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), commonly known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, and issued an executive order to create a task force for the purpose of reunifying families separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s 2018 “zero tolerance” policy.
Today, the Biden administration has successfully reunited almost 400 children torn away from more than 5,000 families, on whom the Trump administration kept no records.
Family Reunification Task Force executive director Michelle Brané explained that in the majority of the cases in which parents were separated from their children, the parents were deported, leaving their children in the U.S.
