Court ordered review finds possibly thousands more cases of family separation

A court-ordered review of migrant families who may have been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border found over 1,700 cases of possible separations thus far.

Cmdr. Jonathan White of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps said in court Friday 1,712 cases with "some preliminary indication of separation" have been referred to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the next phase of review. The Corps has examined 4,108 children's case files to this point, according to CNN.

White warned that not all of the cases involve separations.

"What we transmit to CBP is solely those cases that have some preliminary indication of separation," White said. "We err on the side of inclusion."

A lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sparked the effort to track parents and children who were separated at the border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.

https://thehill.com/latino/444371-court-ordered-review-finds-possibly-thousands-more-cases-of-family-separation-report