More than 2,500 immigrant kids are awaiting reunification with parents [View all]

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Source: cnn




Updated 9:00 PM ET, Fri July 13, 2018
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That number was revealed for the first time Friday as the government gave its first indications of how reunions of those thousands of parents and children could go.

There are about 2,551 kids age 5 and over in government custody who could be eligible for those reunions, officials wrote in a court filing Friday. The reunions of those children with their parents will occur in six to eight designated Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, according to the filing. And officials will use a new, streamlined vetting process to facilitate reunions by the court-ordered deadline of July 26, the filing says.


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The government noted that things will proceed differently for these reunions from the ones for the children under age 5, because of previous rulings in the ongoing lawsuit over family separations at the border and lessons learned from the earlier reunions, which numbered fewer than 60.

The new steps include not DNA-testing most of the parents and not background-checking every adult who will be living in the home with the reunified family.

Official warns of increased risk of child abuse

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/13/politics/separated-families-reunification-children/index.html

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