Biden Pushing to Reunite Separated Migrant Children, But Hurdles Remain

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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President Biden formed a task force last month to speed the reunification of migrant children separated from their parents under the last administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. Advocates for the children have been pressing officials to act with urgency and offer the families a path to citizenship and other resources. Roughly 1,000 children are thought to remain separated, and the parents of about 500 have yet to be located. We’ll talk about the status of reunification efforts, and we’ll also talk about how the Biden Administration is responding to a dramatic increase in the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.5	From KQBD Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, the ACLU's Lee Galant joins us to talk about the 1,000 or so migrant
1:06.0	children still separated from their parents.
1:09.0	For 500 of them, their parents have yet to be located.
1:11.6	We'll look at the status of reunification efforts.
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