WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced that four families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration will be reunited this week in the U.S.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called the reunions "just the beginning" of a broader effort.Two of the four families include mothers who were separated from their children in late 2017, one Honduran and another Mexican, Mayorkas said, according to the Associated Press.
He declined to detail their identities, but described them as children who were 3 years old at the time and "teenagers who have had to live without their parent during their most formative years""The Family Reunification Task Force has been working day and.