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The US Department of Homeland Security works to meet the Court's deadline for bringing immigrant children with their parents next week, but will not take short cuts to do so, chief said Thursday. of the department.
Yolany Padilla, from Honduras, meets her 6 year old son at Seattle Airport 14/07/2018 REUTERS / Tim Exton (19659003)
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The government is making efforts to reunite families who have tried to illegally enter the United States and who have been separated at the border with Mexico as part of the policy of tolerance zero of the Trump government. Last month, a federal judge imposed a deadline on the government for children and their parents to be reunited, many of them fleeing violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
"We are working hard to do that," said US Secretary of National Security Kirstjen Nielsen. "We will do our best" to meet the July 26 deadline, "but we will not take shortcuts," Nielsen told the Aspen Safety Forum in Colorado.
The separation of families sparked international criticism and President Donald Trump ordered the end of the practice on June 20.
Nielsen stated that this practice was aimed at preventing child trafficking and that Congress needed to amend immigration laws so that children and parents could be detained together.
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