EXCLUSIVE: Biden administration determines more than 3,900 children were separated from their families along the Southwest border after the Trump administration launched its controversial 'zero-tolerance policy.'
The report -- expected to be made public in the coming days -- is an initial progress review from the administration's Family Reunification Task Force, which Biden created in February. It is chaired by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, May 26, 2021.
The report cites the unfolding humanitarian crisis and the benefits of having behavioral health services available in the United States for allowing those family members to come into the United States, the source said. As a method of attempting to reunite families quicker, advocacy groups filed class action lawsuits against the government.Nearly 1,700 separations that were previously categorized by the government as out of the scope for those lawsuits may fall within the executive order that created the task force, the source told ABC News.
"It is our moral imperative to not only reunite the families, but to provide them with the relief, resources, and services they need to heal," Mayorkas recently said in a statement about the task force he chairs.
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