The Trump administration is seeking up to two years to track tens of thousands of additional immigrant children who may have been separated from their parents under President Donald Trump’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy. “Defendants estimate that identifying all possible children” separated from their parents among that population “would take at least 12 months, and possibly up to 24 months,” according to the filing. Records would be assessed using data analysis, statistics and a manual review of whatever records exist. The children have already been released from government custody, the vast majority to parents or close relatives. But the department of Customs and Border Protection didn’t start tracing separated families as a searchable data set before April last year, according to the filing, so records are spotty.

Source: Huffington Post April 07, 2019 02:48 UTC