US to reunite 29 migrant families, hundreds remain apart

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Washington (AFP) – US authorities are poised to reunite 29 migrant families separated under the “zero tolerance” policy of the Trump administration, but hundreds of children still remain apart from their parents, officials said Tuesday. “The Department of Homeland Security is committed to the relentless pursuit of reunifying families who were cruelly separated by the previous administration,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement. “When we reunified the first seven families last month, I said that this was just the beginning,” said Mayorkas, who chairs a task force…

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