Family separations have ended, but children risk being 'permanently orphaned'

US agencies were unprepared to handle separations, as evidenced by the 572 children still in shelters

Mass family separations have ended, but hundreds of children remain in the US separated from their parents in the wake of the harshest US immigration policy in decades.

When – and how – these 572 children will see their parents again is a mystery as the government attempts to foist the responsibility of reunification on advocacy groups. Many of them risk being in effect “orphaned” in the US.

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