DHS secretary says Biden administration aims to allow separated migrant families to reunite in U.S.
The Biden administration is seeking to give separated migrant families the option of reuniting in either the United States or their country of origin, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday. And, he added, if the families choose the former, "we will explore lawful pathways for them to remain" in the United States and "address the family needs, so we are acting as restoratively as possible."
‘We will dig out of the cruelty of the past administration’ — The Biden admin’s migrant Family Reunification Task Force will allow separated families to be reunited in the U.S. or their country of origin pic.twitter.com/w3q0bIQcOD
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President Biden established a task force focused on the reunification effort earlier this month via executive order. Under the Trump administration, The Hill notes, around 2,800 families were separated in 2018; some were reconnected, but around 550 children had not yet been reunited with their parents. Mayorkas said the Biden administration has brought 105 families together so far.
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