The following article by Amanda Michelle Gomez was posted on the ThinkProgress.org website August 24, 2018:
And 23 kids under age 5 are apart from their parents.
The administration has reunited the majority of families they’ve separated, but still over 500 parents and their children remain apart, including 23 infants or toddlers, according the most recent government figures.
Family separation at the southwest border is a direct result of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” border control policy of criminally prosecuting migrant parents arriving at illegal (and, sometimes legal) entry points. Families have been apart for months because of this misdemeanor offense, resulting in longterm trauma.
On June 26, a federal judge overseeing an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit against the Trump administration ordered all families to be reunited by July 26. One month later, and officials still have not reunited all 2,654 families they identified as separated between April and June.