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Reunifying Parents And Children — How It Works On The Ground

Taylor Levy in her office; she is the legal coordinator for Annunciation House, a migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas.

Across the country, lawyers and advocates are working with U.S. government officials to reunite parents and children who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Over half of the children under the age of five were reunited this past week. Thousands more face a court-ordered deadline for reunification by the end of this month.

Taylor Levy is the legal coordinator for Annunciation House, a migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas. She and her team are trying to help about 50 parents reunite with their children.

Levy recently called a father named Josué to check in. He’s trying to get his 16-year-old daughter back. But he told Levy there’s a problem. After he was released from custody, Josué went to live with his brother-in-law.

“And his brother-in-law has papers and is legal and everything,” Levy says. “So he thought he was going to be fine with all the paperwork with ORR.”

Read the full article at npr.org

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