华盛顿-官员们周四表示，拜登政府的一个旨在让特朗普总统任期内与家人失散的儿童团聚的工作队已经让近700名儿童与家人重新联系上。
总统乔·拜登在上任的第一天，他就发布了一项行政命令，让那些在特朗普政府广受谴责的做法下被拆散的家庭团聚。特朗普政府在美墨边境强行分离父母和子女，以阻止非法移民移居。周四是工作组成立两周年纪念日。
根据国土安全部公布的数据，2017年至2021年，有3881名儿童与家人分离。其中约74%的人已经与家人团聚:特遣部队成立前有2176人，成立后有689人。
但仍有近1000名儿童。其中，148人正在团聚过程中。该部保证继续这项工作，直到所有能够找到的失散家庭都有机会与他们的孩子团聚。
特朗普政府将数千名移民父母与他们的孩子分开，因为它开始对非法穿越西南边境的人提起刑事诉讼。不能与父母一起被刑事拘留的未成年人被转移到卫生与公众服务部。然后，他们通常被送到担保人那里生活，通常是一个亲戚或其他与家庭有联系的人。
数百个家庭起诉了联邦政府。
家庭可以通过网站注册团聚服务，并在申请人道主义假释等步骤上获得帮助，这将允许他们来美国，以及行为上的帮助健康帮助他们的服务。
在星期四的记者会上，国土安全部部长亚历杭德罗·马约尔卡斯讨论了解决分离造成的“创伤”的努力。
他描述了他遇见一个十几岁孩子的母亲，她13岁时与母亲分开，16岁时与母亲团聚。但是Mayorkas说，这位妇女转述了她十几岁的女儿“仍然不明白她的母亲怎么会让她分开。她不明白分离背后的力量。”
US reunites nearly 700 kids taken from parents under Trump
WASHINGTON -- A Biden administration task force designed to reunite children separated from their families during President Trump's presidency has reconnected nearly 700 children with their families, officials said Thursday.
President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were split up under the Trump administration’s widely condemned practice of forcibly separating parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage illegal immigration. Thursday marked the two-year anniversary of the task force.
According to figures released by the Department of Homeland Security, 3,881 children were separated from their families from 2017 to 2021. About 74% of those have been reunited with their families: 2,176 before the task force was created and 689 afterward.
But that still leaves nearly 1,000 children. Of those, 148 are in the reunification process. The department pledged to continue the work until all separated families that can be found have the opportunity to reunite with their children.
The Trump administration separated thousands of migrant parents from their children as it moved to criminally prosecute people for illegally crossing the southwestern border. Minors, who could not be held in criminal custody with their parents, were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services. They were then typically sent to live with a sponsor, often a relative or someone else with a connection to the family.
Hundreds of families have sued the federal government.
Families can register for reunification services through a website and can get help with steps such as applying for humanitarian parole that would allow them to come to the U.S., as well as for behavioral health services to help them.
During a meeting Thursday with reporters, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas discussed efforts to address “the wounds” the separations had caused.
He describing meeting the mother of a teenager who had been separated from her mom when she was 13 and then reunited with her when she was 16. But Mayorkas said, the woman relayed how her teenage daughter “still could not understand how her mother would let her be separated. She didn’t understand the force behind the separation.”
