Since the beginning of the US policy of “zero tolerance”, the government separated 2.800 children from their parents.
This Tuesday, October 20, 2020, a human rights association reported that they still cannot locate the parents of 545 migrant children, after they were separated for illegally crossing the border with the United States.
The separation of parents and children is framed in the “zero tolerance” policy of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, against illegal and clandestine immigration.
American Civil Liberties told US authorities that the parents who forcibly separated from their children cannot yet be found. Since the current government’s “zero tolerance” policy has been in place, approximately 2,800 immigrant children have been separated from their parents.
According to various reports, it appears that two thirds of the parents being sought were deported to their country of origin. In the face of social criticism, the government announced that it would stop separating families.
The global pandemic of Covid-19 made it difficult to unite families, according to US authorities, but the lawyers in charge of this work have returned to the territory to locate all the relatives.
Source: DW – CNN
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