The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
DHS, Central American governments gather
GUATEMALA CITY » U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is creating an office within the department to help the governments of Central America and Mexico get information about reunifying families following their separation by the Trump administration.
Nielsen met Tuesday in Guatemala with the foreign ministers of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and discussed the separated families and reunification effort.
Meanwhile, U.S. immigration officials worked to reunify dozens of children with parents amid a court mandate. More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents amid a zero-tolerance policy at the U.S. border that prosecuted anyone caught crossing illegally.
Nielsen said she hoped the office would help streamline the foreign requests and the process.
“I think we all echoed the same thought, every minister, that nobody is in favor of any system that ends up with family separations,” she said.