BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The federal government was rushing on Thursday [7-26-18] to reunite the last 1,634 migrant families separated at the Southwest border who have been deemed ‘eligible’ for reunification, in the final hours of a court-ordered scramble to reverse a contentious immigration policy that drew international condemnation. While the government appeared to be on track to meet Thursday’s deadline, its work to address the effects of family separation is far from over. The parents who were deemed eligible for reunification represent only about a third of all those who were separated from their children after crossing the border, a practice that began last summer and escalated in May. At least 917 other parents were not cleared to recover their children this week because they failed criminal background or parental verification checks. About 460 others appeared to have been deported without their children, and the government has yet to find them. Their futures, along with those of about 37 children whose parents have not yet been identified, remain uncertain.”
–Caitlin Dickerson, Annie Correal and Mitchell Ferman, “With Deadline Hours Away, Authorities Scramble to Reunite Migrant Families,” The New York times online, July 26, 2018