The Department of Homeland Security is asking the public for help to stop the federal government from ever again using family separation as a tactic against undocumented migrants, issuing an open request for recommendations.
More than 3,000 children were separated from their families at the US-Mexico border under President Donald Trump's short-lived"zero tolerance," causing a political backlash, public outrage and years of litigation. The Biden administration has been working to reunite the last remaining separated children with family members and find ways to prevent the practice in the future, forming a federal task force for the effort.
"It's important we take action now to ensure family separation is never again used as a cruel deterrence policy," she added. "Getting ... public participation is fine, but there should be no question at this point that the United States should never again take children away absent imminent danger to the child; otherwise we are engaging in child abuse," said Lee Gelernt of the American Civil Liberties Union, the lead lawyer in the Ms. L v.
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