Thousands more families may have been separated at the U.S. border

In 2018, when the united states imposed its ”zero tolerance policy” divorced parents and the children when they illegally crossed the border between Mexico and the united states, sometimes even when they sought asylum. The parents were tried and the children were put on the places.

Donald Trump's deterrent policy against immigration to the united states, and it was an very harsh criticism for being inhumane.

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Trump administration has acknowledged that nearly 3,000 children were separated from their parents by force on the way, but now a myndighetsrapport that there could be thousands more, writes the New York Times.

U.S. health and human services, which is responsible for children in state care, noting in a report that there was a marked increase in the number labeling the detainees children already in 2017, before the policy became public.

what had previously been known may have become separated from their parents, writes the authority, according to the newspaper.

"this report affirms what we suspect: that these cruel familjeseparationerna was greater than the administration acknowledged," says Lee Gelernt, a lawyer at the medborgarrättsorganisationen the American Civil Liberties Union, which made the cause of the separations.

– Now we go to the court and ask the judge to order the government to explain these numbers.