China News Service, October 21. According to the CBS report, on the 20th local time, a legal document jointly submitted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union showed that at the southern border of the United States, because of "zero tolerance" Among refugee children who have been separated from their parents due to border policies, more than 500 children are still missing their parents.
Data map: According to statistics from the US Department of Homeland Security, from April 19 to May 31, 2018, 1995 immigrant children at the US-Mexico border were forcibly taken away from their parents.
According to previous reports, since April 2018, in accordance with the U.S. Department of Justice’s “zero tolerance” policy for illegal immigrants, U.S. border law enforcement officials began to forcefully separate their minor children when arresting illegal immigrants, that is, all arrested illegal immigrants. All of them will be imprisoned for trial or even deportation, and their children will be placed separately in the process.
This policy resulted in the separation of the families of thousands of illegal immigrants at that time, which triggered strong condemnation from the international community.
In June 2018, Judge Dana Sabraw of the San Diego District Court stopped this practice, but many immigrant children still failed to reunite with their parents.
In October 2019, the US government disclosed that between the summer of 2017 and June 2018, 1,556 immigrant children were forced to separate from their parents.
A committee authorized by Sabro began searching for the parents of these children.
So far, the committee has found the parents of 485 children, but the parents of 545 minors cannot be found. It is believed that two-thirds of them have been repatriated to their countries of origin.