President Donald Trump’s June 20 Executive ORDER
While President Donald Trump’s June 20 executive order is intended to end the separation of families entering the U.S. at the southern border, there are still no answers for how families already separated will be reunified. The 2,300 children who have been separated will likely be treated as unaccompanied minors and placed in the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s family reunification process until they can be released to an appropriate family member sponsor. Without such a sponsor, they may remain in long-term shelter or foster care facilities. Children traumatized by conditions at home, the journey, separation, detention or other parts of this process will be impacted for years. We need humane and compassionate laws and policies that realize American values of hope and refuge for those in need.
