A task force established under the Biden administration two years ago has reunited over 600 children with their families who had tried to enter the United States illegally when a short-lived but strict border policy was in effect under the Trump administration.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Thursday that 998 children “remain to be reunited.”
The family separations took place under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy that was in effect from April–June 2018. It required all adults who cross the border into the United States illegally to be prosecuted.
Before the policy, Border Patrol agents had found that illegal immigrants were renting children south of the border and pretending they were family in efforts to exploit legal loopholes to get a quick release from custody into the interior of the United States….