The Trump administration is preparing directives that would grant U.S. immigration officers access to databases that contain information about hundreds of thousands of immigrant teens and children who crossed into the United States without parents, says White House border czar Tom Homan. The Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services, which is responsible for caring for unaccompanied minors taken into custody along the border, has long operated independently of ICE out of concern that the minors’ undocumented family members and sponsors may not come forward to claim them, fearing arrest. |
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