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      Sindy Flores is reunited with her daughter Juliet at San Francisco International Airport

      Nearly 1,000 Migrant Children Separated From Families Under Trump Still Not Reunited

      "This cruelty happened nearly five years ago," said one advocate. "That's an unimaginably long time for children to go without their parents."

      Julia Conley
      Feb 03, 2023

      As some families seek restitution for the suffering caused by former President Donald Trump's family separation policy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday acknowledged that nearly five years after the policy was first enforced, 998 children have yet to be reunited with their relatives.

      On the two-year anniversary of the establishment of President Joe Biden's Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families, the DHS said it has reunited more than 600 children who were taken from their families under Trump's so-called "zero tolerance" policy, which called for the prosecution of anyone who attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border without going through official immigration channels.

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