The ACLU says the newest figures show that far more “tender age” children were separated from their parents than previously understood. Federal officials have already acknowledged that approximately 100 of the 2,700 separated children last year were under age 5. The Trump administration said adults were traveling with children on purpose because legal limits on detaining minors made it easier to slip into the United States. Their children were sent to HHS shelters across the United States, and the Trump administration did not have a plan to quickly reunite them. ADFamily separations remain one of the most significant debacles of the Trump administration, and officials are still debating it more than a year later.

Source: Washington Post October 25, 2019 00:33 UTC