Unaccompanied Children: Agency Efforts to Identify and Reunify Children Separated from Parents at the Border

Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Published: 2/7/2019. In October 2018, the Government Accountability Office reported on what the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS) were doing about family separations and reunifications at the U.S. border. This 22-page Congressional testimony updates that report and provides new data from the government on the number of children subject to the reunification order and the number of children in custody as of December 11, 2018. It discusses DHS and HHS planning efforts, systems for indicating children were separated from parents, and actions to reunify families. (PDF)
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