Nearly 500 immigrant kids remain separated from parents. Most of their parents have been deported.

The following article by Addy Baird was posted on the ThinkProgress website August 31, 2018:

Twenty-two of those children are under the age of 5.

Credit: Mike Blake/Reuters

Nearly 500 migrant children are still separated from their parents, including 22 children under the age of five.

According to a government filing Thursday night, 497 of the 2,654 migrant children separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy are still being held in detention facilities, many of which have histories of abuse, mismanagement, or neglect.

The parents of 322 of those children have already been deported.

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