Drama with "ineligible" children to meet their parents in the United States. | International | news

Miami –

The US government has sought to reunite immigrant families who have been separated by crossing the Mexican border before the deadline, but hundreds of cases are not "eligible". reunification and many parents could have been deported.

In total 917 cases are not & # 39; eligible to be reunited, or it is not known yet whether they are "eligible", said a judicial report from the government. Of these, 463 parents may be abroad, some probably expelled without their children.

The government considers that family reunions are "ineligible" if the links have not been confirmed; if the parents have a criminal record or have not been found.

Prosecutors told federal judge Dana Sabraw that 1,012 parents had already reunited with their children and that they hoped to reunite more than 1,600 families "eligible". until yesterday. 19659002] But "the other 917 cases, including the 463 that may not be in the United States, will not be reunited before the deadline," said Adam Isacson, of the Washington Office NGO for the United States. Latin America. The "zero tolerance" of President Donald Trump led to the mbadive detention of immigrants at the border, where thousands of children were separated from their parents.

Children were sent to scattered shelters in the country.

Trump was retracted on June 20, when he ordered the end of the family separation.

The location of the parents will be a long and arduous task, warned Isacson. First, they need a list of names of expelled parents, which apparently ICE did not have. Then you have to locate the people who have landed in the Central American airports without waiting to see them again. "

The judge ordered the government to provide details of the 463 parents who were eventually expelled without their children.

The first deadline for reuniting children under 5 with their parents was respected without the government being able to deliver them all: 45 of them were considered ineligible.

Until last Tuesday, the Department of Health had them in their custody, in shelters across the country, at 11,500 children clbadified as "unaccompanied minors". (I)