Families searching for relatives in migrant foster care are submitting to background checks and fingerprinting that could expose them to arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Because of a new Trump administration rule, people in the United States who are trying to sponsor relatives currently in a foster facility or shelter for children must go through a background check conducted by ICE.
The new rule could lead ICE to arrest family members already in the U.S. or at very least make it more difficult for the Office of Refugee Resettlement to find family members willing to sponsor a migrant child who has been separated from a parent.