According to authorities, approximately 700 children have been reunited with their families because of a task group established by the Biden administration to help children torn from their families under the Trump administration.
To deter illegal immigration, the Trump administration’s widely denounced practice of forcibly separating parents and children at the US-Mexico border resulted in the division of many families. On his first day in office, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to bring those families back together.
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The task force celebrated its second anniversary on Thursday.
3,881 kids were kept apart from their families between 2017 and 2021, according to data made public by the Department of Homeland Security.
Between 2,176 and 689 individuals, or 74%, have been reunited with their families.
However, there are still about 1,000 kids left.
148 of them are undergoing reunification.
The agency promised to keep working until every separated family that can be located has the chance to be back together with their kids.
