The government says it reunited 522 immigrant children separated from their parents under Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy — but thousands more remain

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• The Deparment of Homeland Security said late Saturday it reunited 522 immigrant children who were separated from their families under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy.
• The reunions come just days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to halt the separations and instead detain immigrant families together.
• An additional 2,053 children are Health and Human Services custody, which said it’s working to reunite the children with their families “via well-established reunification processes.”

The government has reunited 522 immigrant children who were recently separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, the Homeland Security department said late Saturday.

An additional 16 children will be reunited with their families within 24 hours, and were delayed due to “weather affecting travel,” the Customs and Border Protection agency said.

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