The following article by Lydia Wheeler and Nathaniel Weixel was posted on the Hill website July 26, 2018:
The Trump administration has just hours before its court-ordered deadline to reunite families it separated at the southern border, but a new court filing Thursday night shows there are still hundreds of parents who have not been reunited with their kids.
The government reported that is has reunited 1,442 children ages 5 and older with their parents who were in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and 378 have been “discharged in other appropriate circumstances,” including to a sponsor or to their parents in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custody.
But there are another 711 children in the care of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement whose parents are either not eligible for reunification or unavailable.