CALIFORNIA – Attorneys tasked with reuniting separated migrant families during the Trump administration said in a federal court filing Wednesday night that they have recently contacted the parents of 61 more children, NBC News reports.
The filing in the Southern District of California shows that the number of known separated children whose parents have not yet been contacted by pro bono attorneys, known as the steering committee, has decreased from 506 to 445. The committee issues periodic reports on their progress to the federal judge overseeing the reunification process.
In late February, the steering committee announced that it had found the parents of 105 children since mid-January, reducing the number of children whose parents had not been contacted from 611 to 506.
The steering committee began its work under the Trump administration and has continued to contact families while Biden’s family reunification task force is building its own database of potentially separated families.
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