US ‘has work to do’ after reuniting 57 separated families

THE Trump administration has reunited just over half of the child migrants under the age of five who were forcibly separated from their families.

The Department of Health and Human services said yesterday that 57 children had been “reunified” with their parents but they were not able to reunite the remaining 46 children.

Under Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, more than 2,300 children were separated from their parents before he signed an executive order to stop the tactic last month.

Officials said the remaining 46 children were not eligible for “reunification” because some parents had been deported, while other parents had been convicted of serious crimes, or were not their parents.

Dana Sabraw, a California judge, ordered the government to return the children under the age of five to their parents by July 10 and reunite around 2,000 children aged five and older with their parents by July 26.

Judge Sabraw noted the government had “a lot of work to do” to reunite the older group.