Reunited families need adequate support
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Press Release

 

For Immediate Release   
Contact: Dan Gordon ,
617-651-0841  
June 8, 2022  

**As More Details Emerge on Family Separation, Congress Can Help **

**WASHINGTON, D.C.** - U.S. officials acted to slow the reunifications
of families separated at the border in 2018, The Washington Post

reported today.  

Under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance
"
policy, the U.S. government separated more than 5,500 children. About
150 families have been reunited thanks to the Family Reunification Task
Force , which the
Biden administration created in February 2021. 

But many reunited families still lack access to proper and adequate
support needed to heal from the trauma of separation - a situation
Congress can act to remedy. 

"The systematic separation of migrant families at the border under the
Zero Tolerance Policy remains a national shame and an outrage to those
who value family unity," said

**Laurence Benenson, Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at the
National Immigration Forum**. "While the Family Reunification Task Force
continues to do the necessary work of reuniting the thousands of
families that remain separated, Congress must authorize and fund the
support these families need, including resettlement services, case
management and mental health care."  

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