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They include if the child is being abused or the parent committed a much more serious crime than crossing the border illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families. According to figures released by the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-united-states-government-donald-trump-mexico-2665290109390540a2c7cd3a6efcfa99\">Department of Homeland Security in February\u003c/a>, 3,881 children were separated from their families from 2017 to 2021. About 74% of those have been reunited with their families: 2,176 before a Biden administration task force was created and 689 afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of families sued the federal government, seeking both monetary damages and policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the government was discussing a possible payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to each parent and child separated under Trump’s policies but talks stalled on that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed settlement provides key benefits including authorization for parents of separated children to come to the U.S. under humanitarian parole for three years and work in the United States. 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We set forth procedures through this settlement agreement to advance that effort,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-north-america-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-8e35d6ce73e74227983312e4264f8594\">Trump\u003c/a>, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, hasn’t ruled out reviving the highly controversial tactic at the southern border if he wins next year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His administration separated children from their parents or guardians they were traveling with as it moved to criminally prosecute people for illegally crossing the border. The children, who could not be held in criminal custody, were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services and then typically sent to live with a sponsor, often a relative or someone else with a family connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faulty tracking systems caused many to be apart for an extended time or never reunited with their parents. Facing strong opposition, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/latin-america-court-decisions-politics-courts-ap-top-news-1dafadd6fee4447cadd4a0179553026e\">Trump eventually reversed course in\u003c/a> 2018, days before U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego halted the practice and ordered immediate reunification in the lawsuit brought by the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/politics/transcript-cnn-town-hall-trump/index.html\">CNN town hall\u003c/a> in May, Trump was noncommittal on whether he would again separate families if elected. “When you say to a family that if you come we’re going to break you up, they don’t come,” he said when pressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This settlement means that babies and toddlers will finally get to see their parents after years apart and that these suffering families will have an opportunity to seek lawful status.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lee Gelernt, lead counsel, ACLU","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lee Gelernt, lead counsel for the ACLU, said the ban on any future attempts to separate families as a deterrent to illegal immigration was crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This settlement means that babies and toddlers will finally get to see their parents after years apart and that these suffering families will have an opportunity to seek lawful status,” he said. “Nothing can make these families whole again but this is at least a start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the settlement, it would still be possible to separate children from parents or guardians, but under limited scenarios, as has been the case for many years. They include if the child is being abused or the parent committed a much more serious crime than crossing the border illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families. According to figures released by the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-united-states-government-donald-trump-mexico-2665290109390540a2c7cd3a6efcfa99\">Department of Homeland Security in February\u003c/a>, 3,881 children were separated from their families from 2017 to 2021. About 74% of those have been reunited with their families: 2,176 before a Biden administration task force was created and 689 afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of families sued the federal government, seeking both monetary damages and policy changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the government was discussing a possible payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to each parent and child separated under Trump’s policies but talks stalled on that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed settlement provides key benefits including authorization for parents of separated children to come to the U.S. under humanitarian parole for three years and work in the United States. The families receive housing aid for up to a year and medical and behavioral health benefits designed to address some of the trauma associated with the separations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11962387","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-Wendy-Carrillo-JX-KQED-1020x681.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mayorkas described how he’d met with a woman who had been separated from her daughter and how after they had been reunited, her daughter still struggled with the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to help these families heal. And that is an obligation that we carry because of the pain that we inflicted upon them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Merrick Garland said the practice of separating families was “shameful” and that the proposed settlement would provide those affected with critical support to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ll also get access to legal services which will be vital as they may file asylum applications to stay in the United States permanently. The settlement also waives the usual one-year timeline limiting when someone can apply for asylum, and the parents can apply even if they were previously denied. A special team of supervisors will review their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these benefits were already available to families under a task force created by the Biden administration and designed to reunite separated families. But Gelernt said the settlement goes beyond the task force’s purview in key ways such as the asylum assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement requires the government to keep detailed documentation when it separates children from parents to avoid the chaos that erupted during the Trump-era family separations where parents and children could not be quickly reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the government and the ACLU have agreed on a settlement plan, the judge will hold a hearing to decide whether to accept it. Before that, people opposed to the settlement can raise objections to the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11964656/settlement-over-trump-family-separations-at-the-border-limits-future-separations-for-8-years","authors":["byline_news_11964656"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_350","news_23456","news_24303","news_20452","news_22226"],"featImg":"news_11964660","label":"news"},"news_11907194":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11907194","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11907194","score":null,"sort":[1646433242000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"from-family-separation-to-financial-separation","title":"From Family Separation to Financial Separation","publishDate":1646433242,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11907202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: a label that reads, \"this is not who we are\" points at Joe Biden, who carries a paper that says, \"settlement for victims of family separation\" that is crossed out in red. In small parenthetical type to the right is written, \"but check back after the midterms.\" A migrant family looks on in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final-800x583.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final-1020x744.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final-160x117.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final-1536x1120.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>Soon after right-wing media outlets slammed potential payouts to migrant families that had been separated under Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioreseparationsettlement\">the Biden administration withdrew from settlement talks\u003c/a> with immigrant advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden was known for saying, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17484414/joe-biden-trump-family-separation-immigration\">this is not who we are\u003c/a>\" when he correctly excoriated the Trump administration's family separation policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talking about asylum-seeking families who were tortured by the U.S. government during Donald Trump's \"zero tolerance\" policy, Biden more recently said, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-biden-refused-to-pay-restitution-to-families-separated-at-the-border\">you deserve some kind of compensation, no matter what.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, it looks like that compensation isn't happening anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Soon after right-wing media outlets slammed potential payouts to families that had been separated under Trump, the Biden administration withdrew from settlement talks with immigrant advocates.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1646433242,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":99},"headData":{"title":"From Family Separation to Financial Separation | KQED","description":"Soon after right-wing media outlets slammed potential payouts to families that had been separated under Trump, the Biden administration withdrew from settlement talks with immigrant advocates.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"From Family Separation to Financial Separation","datePublished":"2022-03-04T22:34:02.000Z","dateModified":"2022-03-04T22:34:02.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11907194 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11907194","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/03/04/from-family-separation-to-financial-separation/","disqusTitle":"From Family Separation to Financial Separation","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11907194/from-family-separation-to-financial-separation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11907202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: a label that reads, \"this is not who we are\" points at Joe Biden, who carries a paper that says, \"settlement for victims of family separation\" that is crossed out in red. In small parenthetical type to the right is written, \"but check back after the midterms.\" A migrant family looks on in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final-800x583.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final-1020x744.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final-160x117.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/whoweare_030422_final-1536x1120.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>Soon after right-wing media outlets slammed potential payouts to migrant families that had been separated under Trump, \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioreseparationsettlement\">the Biden administration withdrew from settlement talks\u003c/a> with immigrant advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden was known for saying, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17484414/joe-biden-trump-family-separation-immigration\">this is not who we are\u003c/a>\" when he correctly excoriated the Trump administration's family separation policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When talking about asylum-seeking families who were tortured by the U.S. government during Donald Trump's \"zero tolerance\" policy, Biden more recently said, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-biden-refused-to-pay-restitution-to-families-separated-at-the-border\">you deserve some kind of compensation, no matter what.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, it looks like that compensation isn't happening anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11907194/from-family-separation-to-financial-separation","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_13"],"tags":["news_350","news_1323","news_23456","news_28885","news_29236","news_717","news_20949","news_23524","news_23792","news_23457"],"featImg":"news_11907202","label":"news_18515"},"news_11907020":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11907020","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11907020","score":null,"sort":[1646346954000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"biden-walked-away-from-compensating-separated-migrant-families-but-these-parents-arent-giving-up","title":"Biden Walked Away From Compensating Separated Migrant Families. But These Parents Aren't Giving Up","publishDate":1646346954,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Days before the final 2020 presidential debate between candidate Joe Biden and then-President Donald Trump, news broke that hundreds of migrant children remained separated from their parents, more than two years after the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy was halted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the debate in Nashville, Biden expressed his outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their kids were ripped from their arms and separated,” he said. “It’s criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/family-separations-biden-trump-honduras/2021/01/31/f6b815cc-6198-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html\">separated more than 5,500 children from their parents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reunifying the families — and undoing the harm of the separations — became a key part of Biden’s immigration platform. He ran an ad on it, just days before voters went to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PevJComISV0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was a surprise in December of 2021 when the administration dropped out of negotiations with the American Civil Liberties Union to compensate families for the harm they suffered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though administration officials have not explained their decision, and the Justice Department declined to comment for this story, some advocates believe money and politics are to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the breakdown of the talks, the Biden administration now faces a series of individual lawsuits as many of the affected families pursue compensation through the federal courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone has gone back to court and those lawsuits are spread out throughout the country,” said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. “I think they were on the right track to try and settle these globally. And unfortunately, politics got in the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Supposedly leaked compensation amount spawns backlash\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly four years ago, the ACLU sued the federal government on behalf of newly arrived immigrant parents whose children had been taken from them by the Trump administration. This class action lawsuit, Ms. L v. ICE, led to the reunification of thousands of separated families, but the process has dragged on for years. The Trump administration was compelled by a court injunction to assist, but much of the work of locating the parents and children has been done by a team led by the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Biden was elected, it seemed like the government and the ACLU would finally be aligned in aiding the families. Shortly after taking office, the president signed an executive order establishing the Family Reunification Task Force. And a few months later, the ACLU and the government announced they’d be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864249/family-separations-lawsuit-u-s-and-aclu-start-settlement-talks\">pursuing a settlement\u003c/a> in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11864249,news_11858627,news_11888754' label='The Effort to Reunify Families']Then, according to advocates, a leaked number from the confidential negotiations caused the talks to break down: $450,000. In late October 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration was considering paying each person harmed by family separation something close to that amount in monetary damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to ACLU attorney Gelernt, while they were discussing compensation for families, the actual dollar amount wasn’t firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no offer on the table,” said Gelernt, who’s one of the attorneys on the Ms. L case. “There was no specific amount on the table. And we were prepared to continue negotiating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was too late. Once that number was out in the world, the backlash was swift. Online, and on right-wing media channels, politicians and pundits blasted the plan, calling government payouts to unauthorized immigrants “outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in December 2021, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/1065044185/justice-department-breaks-off-talks-on-compensation-for-separated-families\">backed out\u003c/a> of talks to compensate families altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'You're harmed, you sue'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the negotiations was an attempt to settle a series of lawsuits filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act by families who were separated. The FTCA \u003ca href=\"https://www.house.gov/doing-business-with-the-house/leases/federal-tort-claims-act\">allows individuals to sue the federal government\u003c/a> if they were harmed by government representatives acting in their official capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the collapse of the talks, attorneys say those families will now take their individual cases to federal judges across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They add that the cases of families who were separated by border agents clearly meet the FTCA standard. A paper, published last year in the journal Pediatrics, found that the U.S. treatment of migrant children was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843880/us-treatment-of-migrant-children-falls-under-un-definition-of-torture-doctors-say\">consistent with the United Nations' definition of torture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Carol Anne Donohoe, managing attorney, Family Reunification Project at Al Otro Lado']'They have every right to file a claim like you or I would ... You know, you're harmed, you sue. That's the American way.'[/pullquote]“The personal injury … in some cases it was physical harm, it's emotional distress because we ripped their children from them,” said Carol Anne Donohoe, managing attorney for the Family Reunification Project at Al Otro Lado, a California-based immigrant rights organization. “There’s nothing that will ever make that OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not money can undo the harm caused by the separations, Donohoe says, the families are entitled to pursue the legal remedy available under the U.S. justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have every right to file a claim like you or I would,” she said. “You know, you're harmed, you sue. That's the American way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Donohoe points out that the migrant parents who have been reunited with their kids in the U.S. may have a real need for those funds right now. Many are pursuing asylum claims, which can take years to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families that come here, they're allowed to apply for a work permit — which they get within maybe two months — but if they need housing, if they need food … if they have any medical issues, there is nothing in place for these families,” Donohoe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Three people, one room\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of these families is headed by a widow named Sandra, who came to the U.S. with her two children — then 10 and 11 years old — in 2017. She said she fled Guatemala because she didn’t trust the police to protect her from a violent neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra presented herself at a port of entry in Arizona, seeking asylum. After she and her children spent three days in immigration custody, Sandra said officials told her the facility could not support her children, and they would be taken away from her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"immigration\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]Sandra remained in immigration detention for three months before being deported without her children and didn’t see them for three years until she was allowed to return last year. She’s filed a tort claim against the federal government for the trauma caused by the separation. Sandra didn’t want to use her last name out of fear that talking to the press might harm her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra and her kids — now 14 and 15 — are currently sharing a room in her brother-in-law’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the place where we're living, we just have one little room for the three of us, me and my kids,\" she said, speaking through a translator. \"Sometimes it's really hard to sleep because we're all in this one little room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra said she’s having a hard time supporting her family. She’s been looking for work but most jobs she’s found would require her to work swing shifts, and that would prevent her from spending time with her kids. Without a steady job, she cannot afford a car or an apartment of her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra says her kids often discuss what it’ll be like when they’re in a bigger place. She tells them to take advantage of their education, so when they’re adults they won’t have to struggle to support themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tell them, 'Study, my children, because you're not meant to work the way I'm working. Just look at how I come home — exhausted,'\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she’s juggling looking for work and reconnecting with her kids, Sandra is also preparing, with the help of attorneys, to go before a judge with her tort claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The politics of it all\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With the negotiated settlement off the table and the individual tort claims like Sandra’s moving forward, the Biden Justice Department could soon find itself having to defend the Trump administration’s family separation policy in court. And if the government loses, it could end up paying monetary damages — potentially greater than $450,000 — to the separated families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has led some advocates to conclude that politics — not fiscal pragmatism — may have motivated the administration to abandon the settlement talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donohoe says she believes Biden was concerned about the potential political damage from providing payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And now he doesn't apparently care as much about the political damage of what it's going to look like for his DOJ [to be] defending the same policy in court,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley political scientist Lisa García Bedolla says it’s possible that White House officials are trying to control the narrative ahead of this year’s midterm Congressional elections, where the president’s party traditionally suffers losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the White House in a midterm wants is they want the conversation to be one where they think that they can be portrayed in a positive light,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Lee Gelernt, attorney, ACLU']'I think the Biden administration is wrong to think the politics will be against them for doing what's right here. But regardless, they need to do what's right.'[/pullquote]With that in mind, Bedolla said, the administration may find it easier to deal with one tort claim at a time, rather than settling them all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a trickle instead of a flood, right?” she said. “You're dealing with each individual at a time, based on their individual circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ACLU’s Gelernt disagrees that compensating families will hurt the Democrats politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you recall in 2018, a good chunk of the American public — not just Democrats and liberals [but] conservatives and Republicans — were outraged about the Trump administration taking little babies away from their parents,” he said. “So I think the Biden administration is wrong to think the politics will be against them for doing what's right here. But regardless, they need to do what's right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Reunifying families and undoing the harm they suffered was a key part of President Biden's immigration platform when he was elected. So it was a surprise in December when the administration dropped out of negotiations to compensate families.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1646349880,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1788},"headData":{"title":"Biden Walked Away From Compensating Separated Migrant Families. But These Parents Aren't Giving Up | KQED","description":"Reunifying families and undoing the harm they suffered was a key part of President Biden's immigration platform when he was elected. 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But These Parents Aren't Giving Up","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/0280e941-dd47-459b-84be-ae4d0116cbbd/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11907020/biden-walked-away-from-compensating-separated-migrant-families-but-these-parents-arent-giving-up","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Days before the final 2020 presidential debate between candidate Joe Biden and then-President Donald Trump, news broke that hundreds of migrant children remained separated from their parents, more than two years after the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy was halted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the debate in Nashville, Biden expressed his outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their kids were ripped from their arms and separated,” he said. “It’s criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/family-separations-biden-trump-honduras/2021/01/31/f6b815cc-6198-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html\">separated more than 5,500 children from their parents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reunifying the families — and undoing the harm of the separations — became a key part of Biden’s immigration platform. He ran an ad on it, just days before voters went to the polls.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PevJComISV0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PevJComISV0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>So it was a surprise in December of 2021 when the administration dropped out of negotiations with the American Civil Liberties Union to compensate families for the harm they suffered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though administration officials have not explained their decision, and the Justice Department declined to comment for this story, some advocates believe money and politics are to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the breakdown of the talks, the Biden administration now faces a series of individual lawsuits as many of the affected families pursue compensation through the federal courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone has gone back to court and those lawsuits are spread out throughout the country,” said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. “I think they were on the right track to try and settle these globally. And unfortunately, politics got in the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Supposedly leaked compensation amount spawns backlash\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly four years ago, the ACLU sued the federal government on behalf of newly arrived immigrant parents whose children had been taken from them by the Trump administration. This class action lawsuit, Ms. L v. ICE, led to the reunification of thousands of separated families, but the process has dragged on for years. The Trump administration was compelled by a court injunction to assist, but much of the work of locating the parents and children has been done by a team led by the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Biden was elected, it seemed like the government and the ACLU would finally be aligned in aiding the families. Shortly after taking office, the president signed an executive order establishing the Family Reunification Task Force. And a few months later, the ACLU and the government announced they’d be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864249/family-separations-lawsuit-u-s-and-aclu-start-settlement-talks\">pursuing a settlement\u003c/a> in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11864249,news_11858627,news_11888754","label":"The Effort to Reunify Families "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then, according to advocates, a leaked number from the confidential negotiations caused the talks to break down: $450,000. In late October 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration was considering paying each person harmed by family separation something close to that amount in monetary damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to ACLU attorney Gelernt, while they were discussing compensation for families, the actual dollar amount wasn’t firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no offer on the table,” said Gelernt, who’s one of the attorneys on the Ms. L case. “There was no specific amount on the table. And we were prepared to continue negotiating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was too late. Once that number was out in the world, the backlash was swift. Online, and on right-wing media channels, politicians and pundits blasted the plan, calling government payouts to unauthorized immigrants “outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in December 2021, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/1065044185/justice-department-breaks-off-talks-on-compensation-for-separated-families\">backed out\u003c/a> of talks to compensate families altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'You're harmed, you sue'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the negotiations was an attempt to settle a series of lawsuits filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act by families who were separated. The FTCA \u003ca href=\"https://www.house.gov/doing-business-with-the-house/leases/federal-tort-claims-act\">allows individuals to sue the federal government\u003c/a> if they were harmed by government representatives acting in their official capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the collapse of the talks, attorneys say those families will now take their individual cases to federal judges across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They add that the cases of families who were separated by border agents clearly meet the FTCA standard. A paper, published last year in the journal Pediatrics, found that the U.S. treatment of migrant children was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843880/us-treatment-of-migrant-children-falls-under-un-definition-of-torture-doctors-say\">consistent with the United Nations' definition of torture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'They have every right to file a claim like you or I would ... You know, you're harmed, you sue. That's the American way.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Carol Anne Donohoe, managing attorney, Family Reunification Project at Al Otro Lado","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The personal injury … in some cases it was physical harm, it's emotional distress because we ripped their children from them,” said Carol Anne Donohoe, managing attorney for the Family Reunification Project at Al Otro Lado, a California-based immigrant rights organization. “There’s nothing that will ever make that OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not money can undo the harm caused by the separations, Donohoe says, the families are entitled to pursue the legal remedy available under the U.S. justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have every right to file a claim like you or I would,” she said. “You know, you're harmed, you sue. That's the American way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Donohoe points out that the migrant parents who have been reunited with their kids in the U.S. may have a real need for those funds right now. Many are pursuing asylum claims, which can take years to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families that come here, they're allowed to apply for a work permit — which they get within maybe two months — but if they need housing, if they need food … if they have any medical issues, there is nothing in place for these families,” Donohoe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Three people, one room\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of these families is headed by a widow named Sandra, who came to the U.S. with her two children — then 10 and 11 years old — in 2017. She said she fled Guatemala because she didn’t trust the police to protect her from a violent neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra presented herself at a port of entry in Arizona, seeking asylum. After she and her children spent three days in immigration custody, Sandra said officials told her the facility could not support her children, and they would be taken away from her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"immigration","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sandra remained in immigration detention for three months before being deported without her children and didn’t see them for three years until she was allowed to return last year. She’s filed a tort claim against the federal government for the trauma caused by the separation. Sandra didn’t want to use her last name out of fear that talking to the press might harm her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra and her kids — now 14 and 15 — are currently sharing a room in her brother-in-law’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the place where we're living, we just have one little room for the three of us, me and my kids,\" she said, speaking through a translator. \"Sometimes it's really hard to sleep because we're all in this one little room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra said she’s having a hard time supporting her family. She’s been looking for work but most jobs she’s found would require her to work swing shifts, and that would prevent her from spending time with her kids. Without a steady job, she cannot afford a car or an apartment of her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra says her kids often discuss what it’ll be like when they’re in a bigger place. She tells them to take advantage of their education, so when they’re adults they won’t have to struggle to support themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tell them, 'Study, my children, because you're not meant to work the way I'm working. Just look at how I come home — exhausted,'\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she’s juggling looking for work and reconnecting with her kids, Sandra is also preparing, with the help of attorneys, to go before a judge with her tort claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The politics of it all\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With the negotiated settlement off the table and the individual tort claims like Sandra’s moving forward, the Biden Justice Department could soon find itself having to defend the Trump administration’s family separation policy in court. And if the government loses, it could end up paying monetary damages — potentially greater than $450,000 — to the separated families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has led some advocates to conclude that politics — not fiscal pragmatism — may have motivated the administration to abandon the settlement talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donohoe says she believes Biden was concerned about the potential political damage from providing payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And now he doesn't apparently care as much about the political damage of what it's going to look like for his DOJ [to be] defending the same policy in court,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley political scientist Lisa García Bedolla says it’s possible that White House officials are trying to control the narrative ahead of this year’s midterm Congressional elections, where the president’s party traditionally suffers losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the White House in a midterm wants is they want the conversation to be one where they think that they can be portrayed in a positive light,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I think the Biden administration is wrong to think the politics will be against them for doing what's right here. But regardless, they need to do what's right.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lee Gelernt, attorney, ACLU","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With that in mind, Bedolla said, the administration may find it easier to deal with one tort claim at a time, rather than settling them all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a trickle instead of a flood, right?” she said. “You're dealing with each individual at a time, based on their individual circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ACLU’s Gelernt disagrees that compensating families will hurt the Democrats politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you recall in 2018, a good chunk of the American public — not just Democrats and liberals [but] conservatives and Republicans — were outraged about the Trump administration taking little babies away from their parents,” he said. “So I think the Biden administration is wrong to think the politics will be against them for doing what's right here. But regardless, they need to do what's right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11907020/biden-walked-away-from-compensating-separated-migrant-families-but-these-parents-arent-giving-up","authors":["11526"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_350","news_29052","news_1323","news_23720","news_23456","news_28885","news_27626","news_20202","news_717","news_23457"],"featImg":"news_11907124","label":"news_72"},"news_11888827":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11888827","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11888827","score":null,"sort":[1631887208000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"you-always-feel-that-someones-missing-how-a-trump-era-immigration-policy-has-kept-a-california-family-apart-for-two-years","title":"'You Always Feel That Someone’s Missing': How a Trump-Era Immigration Policy Has Kept a California Family Apart for Two Years","publishDate":1631887208,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>There are reminders of José Luis Ruiz Arévalos everywhere in the three-bedroom trailer where his wife and four children live in the small Central Valley city of Los Baños: the family photos along the hallway, the triple bunk bed he built to accommodate a growing family, the fence he installed out front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez\"]'There’s like this space where he used to be, but he’s not there anymore.'[/pullquote]But Ruiz Arévalos isn’t there. After he was forced to stay in Mexico two years ago, the college plans for the three oldest children have unraveled. The oldest dropped out of college and joined the U.S. Army Reserve. The second oldest is prioritizing work while studying. And their younger brother, a senior in high school, caught the eye of Harvard recruiters but instead is considering vocational school closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s like this space where he used to be, but he’s not there anymore,” said Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, 19. “And like, every time you come home, you’re just like, ‘Oh, I feel like something’s missing.’ You always feel that someone’s missing, that he’s missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11888939 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"A family of six, with the parents sitting on the couch and four children standing behind, most smiling at the camera.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armanda Ruiz (front left) with her husband, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos, and children Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez, and Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May 2019, Ruiz Arévalos — also known as José, Dad or Papa, depending on whom you ask — went to Mexico for what he thought would be the final step to apply for his green card: an interview at the U.S. Consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his family — the rest of whom all are U.S. citizens — expected he would be able to come back in a week or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was unexpectedly refused a green card when U.S. Consulate officials decided that under Trump administration guidance he was likely to become a “public charge,” dependent on government services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to return to the U.S., he remains in Hermosillo, Sonora, a thousand miles from his family, while he tries to appeal the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-business-f440cbe61eb642c99f4d9a47e437c526\">changes to the “public charge” immigration policy made headlines\u003c/a> the year of Ruiz Arévalos’s green card interview in 2019. What was less publicized is that in January 2018, the Trump administration had already made changes to the public charge policy at consulates outside the country.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe changes gave consulate officers more discretion to scrutinize applicants’ age, education, job skills, and health insurance and whether they or their family members received any type of public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Oct. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30, 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/annual-reports/report-of-the-visa-office-2019.html\">consulate officials refused almost 21,000 people applying for immigrant visas\u003c/a> based on the revised public charge policy. That was seven times as many people as had been refused under the same policy two years before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes that were made have now been reversed under President Joe Biden. But the effects still remain, not only for immigrants, but also for their spouses and children. When Ruiz Arévalos couldn’t return home, it triggered economic hardship and emotional grief for his wife and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also disrupted the education of his oldest stepchild, Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elena, 21, dropped out of the University of California, Merced so she could work to support the family. The decision was gut-wrenching and scary. Elena thought she might never return to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos had been helping her pay for her college expenses not covered by financial aid with his income as a handyperson. Without his help, not only could she not afford to stay in school, but she also needed to help the rest of her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888944\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 767px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11888944 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white T-shirt and jeans holds hands with an 11-year-old girl, amid pink and white balloons and decorations.\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1.jpg 767w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Luis Ruiz Arévalos dances with daughter Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, at her birthday party in Mexico. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her mother, Armanda Ruiz, has a full-time job taking care of her little sister, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, 11, who was born prematurely and has had four surgeries and multiple health issues her entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Priscila has developmental delays and is under continuous medical care with speech, occupational and physical therapy. Her other two siblings, Ignacio and Nathan, were still in high school at the time Ruiz Arévalos was told he could not return from Mexico. Nathan had been struggling with severe depression. Elena felt she had no other choice but to drop out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Counselors usually advised me to, like, try to stay in school, but they didn’t really understand that I was the only one that was able to work,” Elena said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one other thing motivating her decision: If she stayed in college, she reasoned, the burden to support the family would fall on her younger siblings. She wanted them to follow their dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/mwGywQnW88s\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oldest three have always excelled in school. Nathan, 19, got A’s and B’s at Merced College last year. Ignacio, 17, just finished his junior year at Los Baños High School with a 4.6 grade point average — all A’s, including four in Advanced Placement classes. He recently received a letter from Harvard, encouraging him to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I just want to provide for my family and keep ourselves from sinking into debt,” Elena said. “With my dad out of the country and with no family but ourselves, I don’t want the lack of money to be the reason why my siblings don’t go where they want to go and get their degree in what they want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Elena applied for dozens of jobs. She worked at a tomato-packing plant, at Big 5 Sporting Goods as a cashier, and with the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez\"]'Right now I just want to provide for my family and keep ourselves from sinking into debt … I don’t want the lack of money to be the reason why my siblings don’t go where they want to go.'[/pullquote]Then the coronavirus pandemic hit California, and work became even harder to find. Determined to continue toward a college degree, she began taking classes at Merced College. As the months dragged on and the family continued to struggle financially, she became increasingly worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mexico, Ruiz Arévalos felt that his world had broken into a million pieces. He has been part of this blended family for 12 years. When he first met his wife, Armanda Ramírez, her name before she married him, her daughter Elena was 8. Nathan was 6, and Ignacio was 5. The children have their father’s last name and their mother’s maiden name: Gutiérrez Ramírez. Later the couple had Priscila together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he talks about his children, his voice becomes soft with love as he recalls each of their personalities. Little Priscila is his treasure, his spoiled baby. Elena is loving and noble, he said, a “super daughter.” Nathan is both tough and affectionate. Ignacio, he said, could do anything he wants — studying comes easily to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the worst thing is that my kids really put their heart into their studies,” he said in Spanish. “I feel like I am clipping their wings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888946\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 968px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11888946 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1.jpg\" alt=\"A family stands in a line for a picture amid pink and white birthday decorations. The girl in the middle wears a unicorn outfit.\" width=\"968\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1.jpg 968w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos, Armanda Ruiz, Priscila Ruiz Ramirez, Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez and Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez celebrating Priscila’s birthday in Mexico. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos had been living in the U.S. without immigration papers since his parents brought him in the early ’90s, when he was 17. Since 1996, immigration law makes it difficult for anyone who crossed the border illegally and stayed in the U.S. for more than a year to get a green card, even if they are married to a U.S. citizen. They have to leave the country to apply, and if they lived here without immigration papers, they are banned from reentering the country for 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11858316\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/gettyimages-1230936271-66a4f28f0f4c76f8936d96115f8be7f11c103ec7-1020x765.jpg\"]There is one way around the 10-year ban: You can apply for a waiver if you can prove that being forced to stay outside the U.S. would cause “extreme hardship” for a U.S. citizen spouse or parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before going to his interview appointment in Ciudad Juárez, Ruiz Arévalos applied for a waiver, arguing that his absence would cause severe hardship for his wife. In the documents they submitted, they detailed how hard it would be for her to be left alone to care for their four children, including Priscila, with her medical issues and developmental delays, and Nathan, with severe depression and panic attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved the waiver. The couple believed they had all their paperwork in order. They secured a fiscal sponsor — a family friend who agreed to support Ruiz Arévalos and his family. The sponsor made far more than the minimum income required by federal regulations, which is 125% of the federal poverty level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Ruiz Arévalos showed up for his appointment, the consulate official questioned whether his fiscal sponsor would actually support the family if needed and asked Ruiz Arévalos whether his family had used welfare. Priscila has received Supplemental Security Income — provided to disabled people in lower-income families — since she was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other children in the family had received food stamps. The consulate told him he would need an additional fiscal sponsor to prove he wouldn’t become dependent on the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of waiting for him to turn in the new paperwork, the consulate told him he was inadmissible to the U.S. because he was likely to become a public charge, and canceled his waiver of the 10-year ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. State Department declined to say how many other applicants for green cards had their waivers revoked because of the new public charge policy that was in place from 2018 to 2020. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the data was not available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Erin Quinn, Immigrant Legal Resource Center\"]'They can overcome the public charge issue … but the damage was already done, because the real harm for families like this one is those years of separation that can’t be undone.'[/pullquote]Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/\">Immigrant Legal Resource Center\u003c/a>, said likely thousands of the people denied entry under “public charge” in 2018 and 2019 had previously lived in the U.S. and had waivers to show that being separated from their families would cause extreme hardship, like Ruiz Arévalos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that guidance came out, officers had clearly gotten marching orders to go on this fishing expedition, as a way to begin denying cases that were otherwise clearly eligible for their permanent resident status,” Quinn said. “They can overcome the public charge issue by turning in the information requested, but the damage was already done, because the real harm for families like this one is those years of separation that can’t be undone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos submitted the names of three different fiscal sponsors to the consulate. But the process slowed almost to a halt because of the pandemic. While he waited, he tried his best to stay connected to his family across the border. They do regular video calls so the kids can talk with their dad. Ignacio even calls Ruiz Arévalos for help when he has to fix something at home — how to change the oil in the car, how to unclog the toilet, how to fix the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888941\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 534px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11888941 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1.jpg\" alt='A woman in a dress embraces a high school graduate in a yellow cap and gown with a red \"2020\" sash.' width=\"534\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1.jpg 534w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1-160x239.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, right, at high school graduation with mom Armanda Ruiz. José Luis Ruiz Arévalos had to miss Nathan’s graduation. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months before Ruiz Arévalos went to Mexico, the Gutiérrez Ramírez kids’ biological father died. They didn’t have much contact with him the last few years he was alive, but when they found out he died, it was painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a dad, and I didn’t get along very well with him. We had problems. Then I get another dad, and they take him away,” Nathan told Ruiz Arévalos recently. “It’s not fair. I want my dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hit us all very hard that he wasn’t able to come back,” Ruiz said. She said Priscila especially didn’t understand why her dad was in Mexico. “Why is my dad over there?” Ruiz said she would ask. “Why doesn’t he come here? Why doesn’t he sleep here with us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos wasn’t there to see Nathan’s graduation from high school, or Priscila’s ceremony for “reclassification” to show she is no longer considered an English-language learner at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s missed two years of birthdays and movie watching and countless dance sessions in the family living room. He wasn’t there to see them all stuff eggshells with confetti for Easter, or to watch how they made distance learning work, with all five of them learning from home — Elena and Nathan in college classes, Ignacio in high school, Priscila in special education, and their mother taking an English class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it feels different not having a father figure,” Ignacio said. “’Cause you know, there’s a different kind of relationship with your dad than your mother, I’d say, if you’re a guy, ’cause like, you know, guys just understand each other. Like you don’t even have to say something, you already know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months ago, Elena met with a college counselor and decided to join the Army Reserve. She went to basic training in July and will be there until November, so she won’t be able to attend college classes in the fall. She’s hoping she can return to college in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During this time of uncertainty, at least the Army will bring some form of certainty,” Elena said. “In addition, if something were to happen to my mom, I will be the one taking care of my siblings, and without a stable job, I can’t guarantee that. That’s why the Army sounds like a good deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may finally be some hope in Ruiz Arévalos’s case. In July 2020, a U.S. District Court in New York issued a temporary injunction requiring consulates to stop using the new guidance on public charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']And most recently in August, the Department of Homeland Security began the process to ask the public how the public charge rule should be changed in the future, specifically mentioning it does not want the rule to \"unduly impose barriers\" on people seeking adjustment of status, like Ruiz Arévalos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Ruiz Arévalos received another letter in the mail from the consulate in Ciudad Juárez, the first in months. For the first time, there was no mention of “public charge.” The letter said he could now apply again for a waiver. The process could take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Ruiz and the kids went to visit Ruiz Arévalos in Mexico, the last family trip before Elena headed to basic training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went to the beach — a first for some of the children — and waded into the ocean, playing in the waves. From the sand, Ruiz watched and took a video with her phone — her husband, with her children, walking toward the horizon. They jumped over wave after wave coming at them. For the moment, they were all together.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In May 2019, a resident of the Central Valley went to Mexico for what he thought would be the final step to apply for his green card. But because of the Trump administration's public charge rule, that visit has become a two-year wait.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1662486517,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":50,"wordCount":2838},"headData":{"title":"'You Always Feel That Someone’s Missing': How a Trump-Era Immigration Policy Has Kept a California Family Apart for Two Years | KQED","description":"In May 2019, a resident of the Central Valley went to Mexico for what he thought would be the final step to apply for his green card. But because of the Trump administration's public charge rule, that visit has become a two-year wait.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'You Always Feel That Someone’s Missing': How a Trump-Era Immigration Policy Has Kept a California Family Apart for Two Years","datePublished":"2021-09-17T14:00:08.000Z","dateModified":"2022-09-06T17:48:37.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11888827 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11888827","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/17/you-always-feel-that-someones-missing-how-a-trump-era-immigration-policy-has-kept-a-california-family-apart-for-two-years/","disqusTitle":"'You Always Feel That Someone’s Missing': How a Trump-Era Immigration Policy Has Kept a California Family Apart for Two Years","source":"EdSource","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org/","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/3a189d41-0169-4dab-9992-ada60164ba35/audio.mp3","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/zstavely\">Zaidee Stavely\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11888827/you-always-feel-that-someones-missing-how-a-trump-era-immigration-policy-has-kept-a-california-family-apart-for-two-years","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are reminders of José Luis Ruiz Arévalos everywhere in the three-bedroom trailer where his wife and four children live in the small Central Valley city of Los Baños: the family photos along the hallway, the triple bunk bed he built to accommodate a growing family, the fence he installed out front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There’s like this space where he used to be, but he’s not there anymore.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Ruiz Arévalos isn’t there. After he was forced to stay in Mexico two years ago, the college plans for the three oldest children have unraveled. The oldest dropped out of college and joined the U.S. Army Reserve. The second oldest is prioritizing work while studying. And their younger brother, a senior in high school, caught the eye of Harvard recruiters but instead is considering vocational school closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s like this space where he used to be, but he’s not there anymore,” said Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, 19. “And like, every time you come home, you’re just like, ‘Oh, I feel like something’s missing.’ You always feel that someone’s missing, that he’s missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888939\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11888939 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"A family of six, with the parents sitting on the couch and four children standing behind, most smiling at the camera.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ruiz_family_crop-1024x768-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armanda Ruiz (front left) with her husband, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos, and children Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez, and Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In May 2019, Ruiz Arévalos — also known as José, Dad or Papa, depending on whom you ask — went to Mexico for what he thought would be the final step to apply for his green card: an interview at the U.S. Consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his family — the rest of whom all are U.S. citizens — expected he would be able to come back in a week or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was unexpectedly refused a green card when U.S. Consulate officials decided that under Trump administration guidance he was likely to become a “public charge,” dependent on government services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to return to the U.S., he remains in Hermosillo, Sonora, a thousand miles from his family, while he tries to appeal the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-business-f440cbe61eb642c99f4d9a47e437c526\">changes to the “public charge” immigration policy made headlines\u003c/a> the year of Ruiz Arévalos’s green card interview in 2019. What was less publicized is that in January 2018, the Trump administration had already made changes to the public charge policy at consulates outside the country.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe changes gave consulate officers more discretion to scrutinize applicants’ age, education, job skills, and health insurance and whether they or their family members received any type of public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Oct. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30, 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/annual-reports/report-of-the-visa-office-2019.html\">consulate officials refused almost 21,000 people applying for immigrant visas\u003c/a> based on the revised public charge policy. That was seven times as many people as had been refused under the same policy two years before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes that were made have now been reversed under President Joe Biden. But the effects still remain, not only for immigrants, but also for their spouses and children. When Ruiz Arévalos couldn’t return home, it triggered economic hardship and emotional grief for his wife and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also disrupted the education of his oldest stepchild, Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elena, 21, dropped out of the University of California, Merced so she could work to support the family. The decision was gut-wrenching and scary. Elena thought she might never return to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos had been helping her pay for her college expenses not covered by financial aid with his income as a handyperson. Without his help, not only could she not afford to stay in school, but she also needed to help the rest of her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888944\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 767px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11888944 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a white T-shirt and jeans holds hands with an 11-year-old girl, amid pink and white balloons and decorations.\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1.jpg 767w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz1-768x562-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Luis Ruiz Arévalos dances with daughter Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, at her birthday party in Mexico. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her mother, Armanda Ruiz, has a full-time job taking care of her little sister, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, 11, who was born prematurely and has had four surgeries and multiple health issues her entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Priscila has developmental delays and is under continuous medical care with speech, occupational and physical therapy. Her other two siblings, Ignacio and Nathan, were still in high school at the time Ruiz Arévalos was told he could not return from Mexico. Nathan had been struggling with severe depression. Elena felt she had no other choice but to drop out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Counselors usually advised me to, like, try to stay in school, but they didn’t really understand that I was the only one that was able to work,” Elena said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one other thing motivating her decision: If she stayed in college, she reasoned, the burden to support the family would fall on her younger siblings. She wanted them to follow their dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/mwGywQnW88s\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oldest three have always excelled in school. Nathan, 19, got A’s and B’s at Merced College last year. Ignacio, 17, just finished his junior year at Los Baños High School with a 4.6 grade point average — all A’s, including four in Advanced Placement classes. He recently received a letter from Harvard, encouraging him to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now I just want to provide for my family and keep ourselves from sinking into debt,” Elena said. “With my dad out of the country and with no family but ourselves, I don’t want the lack of money to be the reason why my siblings don’t go where they want to go and get their degree in what they want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Elena applied for dozens of jobs. She worked at a tomato-packing plant, at Big 5 Sporting Goods as a cashier, and with the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Right now I just want to provide for my family and keep ourselves from sinking into debt … I don’t want the lack of money to be the reason why my siblings don’t go where they want to go.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then the coronavirus pandemic hit California, and work became even harder to find. Determined to continue toward a college degree, she began taking classes at Merced College. As the months dragged on and the family continued to struggle financially, she became increasingly worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mexico, Ruiz Arévalos felt that his world had broken into a million pieces. He has been part of this blended family for 12 years. When he first met his wife, Armanda Ramírez, her name before she married him, her daughter Elena was 8. Nathan was 6, and Ignacio was 5. The children have their father’s last name and their mother’s maiden name: Gutiérrez Ramírez. Later the couple had Priscila together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he talks about his children, his voice becomes soft with love as he recalls each of their personalities. Little Priscila is his treasure, his spoiled baby. Elena is loving and noble, he said, a “super daughter.” Nathan is both tough and affectionate. Ignacio, he said, could do anything he wants — studying comes easily to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the worst thing is that my kids really put their heart into their studies,” he said in Spanish. “I feel like I am clipping their wings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888946\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 968px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11888946 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1.jpg\" alt=\"A family stands in a line for a picture amid pink and white birthday decorations. The girl in the middle wears a unicorn outfit.\" width=\"968\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1.jpg 968w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Ruiz-1024x645-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos, Armanda Ruiz, Priscila Ruiz Ramirez, Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez and Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez celebrating Priscila’s birthday in Mexico. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos had been living in the U.S. without immigration papers since his parents brought him in the early ’90s, when he was 17. Since 1996, immigration law makes it difficult for anyone who crossed the border illegally and stayed in the U.S. for more than a year to get a green card, even if they are married to a U.S. citizen. They have to leave the country to apply, and if they lived here without immigration papers, they are banned from reentering the country for 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11858316","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/gettyimages-1230936271-66a4f28f0f4c76f8936d96115f8be7f11c103ec7-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There is one way around the 10-year ban: You can apply for a waiver if you can prove that being forced to stay outside the U.S. would cause “extreme hardship” for a U.S. citizen spouse or parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before going to his interview appointment in Ciudad Juárez, Ruiz Arévalos applied for a waiver, arguing that his absence would cause severe hardship for his wife. In the documents they submitted, they detailed how hard it would be for her to be left alone to care for their four children, including Priscila, with her medical issues and developmental delays, and Nathan, with severe depression and panic attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved the waiver. The couple believed they had all their paperwork in order. They secured a fiscal sponsor — a family friend who agreed to support Ruiz Arévalos and his family. The sponsor made far more than the minimum income required by federal regulations, which is 125% of the federal poverty level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Ruiz Arévalos showed up for his appointment, the consulate official questioned whether his fiscal sponsor would actually support the family if needed and asked Ruiz Arévalos whether his family had used welfare. Priscila has received Supplemental Security Income — provided to disabled people in lower-income families — since she was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other children in the family had received food stamps. The consulate told him he would need an additional fiscal sponsor to prove he wouldn’t become dependent on the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of waiting for him to turn in the new paperwork, the consulate told him he was inadmissible to the U.S. because he was likely to become a public charge, and canceled his waiver of the 10-year ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. State Department declined to say how many other applicants for green cards had their waivers revoked because of the new public charge policy that was in place from 2018 to 2020. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the data was not available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'They can overcome the public charge issue … but the damage was already done, because the real harm for families like this one is those years of separation that can’t be undone.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Erin Quinn, Immigrant Legal Resource Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/\">Immigrant Legal Resource Center\u003c/a>, said likely thousands of the people denied entry under “public charge” in 2018 and 2019 had previously lived in the U.S. and had waivers to show that being separated from their families would cause extreme hardship, like Ruiz Arévalos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that guidance came out, officers had clearly gotten marching orders to go on this fishing expedition, as a way to begin denying cases that were otherwise clearly eligible for their permanent resident status,” Quinn said. “They can overcome the public charge issue by turning in the information requested, but the damage was already done, because the real harm for families like this one is those years of separation that can’t be undone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos submitted the names of three different fiscal sponsors to the consulate. But the process slowed almost to a halt because of the pandemic. While he waited, he tried his best to stay connected to his family across the border. They do regular video calls so the kids can talk with their dad. Ignacio even calls Ruiz Arévalos for help when he has to fix something at home — how to change the oil in the car, how to unclog the toilet, how to fix the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888941\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 534px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11888941 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1.jpg\" alt='A woman in a dress embraces a high school graduate in a yellow cap and gown with a red \"2020\" sash.' width=\"534\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1.jpg 534w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Elena-642x800-1-160x239.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, right, at high school graduation with mom Armanda Ruiz. José Luis Ruiz Arévalos had to miss Nathan’s graduation. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few months before Ruiz Arévalos went to Mexico, the Gutiérrez Ramírez kids’ biological father died. They didn’t have much contact with him the last few years he was alive, but when they found out he died, it was painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a dad, and I didn’t get along very well with him. We had problems. Then I get another dad, and they take him away,” Nathan told Ruiz Arévalos recently. “It’s not fair. I want my dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hit us all very hard that he wasn’t able to come back,” Ruiz said. She said Priscila especially didn’t understand why her dad was in Mexico. “Why is my dad over there?” Ruiz said she would ask. “Why doesn’t he come here? Why doesn’t he sleep here with us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos wasn’t there to see Nathan’s graduation from high school, or Priscila’s ceremony for “reclassification” to show she is no longer considered an English-language learner at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s missed two years of birthdays and movie watching and countless dance sessions in the family living room. He wasn’t there to see them all stuff eggshells with confetti for Easter, or to watch how they made distance learning work, with all five of them learning from home — Elena and Nathan in college classes, Ignacio in high school, Priscila in special education, and their mother taking an English class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it feels different not having a father figure,” Ignacio said. “’Cause you know, there’s a different kind of relationship with your dad than your mother, I’d say, if you’re a guy, ’cause like, you know, guys just understand each other. Like you don’t even have to say something, you already know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months ago, Elena met with a college counselor and decided to join the Army Reserve. She went to basic training in July and will be there until November, so she won’t be able to attend college classes in the fall. She’s hoping she can return to college in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During this time of uncertainty, at least the Army will bring some form of certainty,” Elena said. “In addition, if something were to happen to my mom, I will be the one taking care of my siblings, and without a stable job, I can’t guarantee that. That’s why the Army sounds like a good deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may finally be some hope in Ruiz Arévalos’s case. In July 2020, a U.S. District Court in New York issued a temporary injunction requiring consulates to stop using the new guidance on public charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"immigration"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And most recently in August, the Department of Homeland Security began the process to ask the public how the public charge rule should be changed in the future, specifically mentioning it does not want the rule to \"unduly impose barriers\" on people seeking adjustment of status, like Ruiz Arévalos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Ruiz Arévalos received another letter in the mail from the consulate in Ciudad Juárez, the first in months. For the first time, there was no mention of “public charge.” The letter said he could now apply again for a waiver. The process could take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Ruiz and the kids went to visit Ruiz Arévalos in Mexico, the last family trip before Elena headed to basic training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They went to the beach — a first for some of the children — and waded into the ocean, playing in the waves. From the sand, Ruiz watched and took a video with her phone — her husband, with her children, walking toward the horizon. They jumped over wave after wave coming at them. For the moment, they were all together.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11888827/you-always-feel-that-someones-missing-how-a-trump-era-immigration-policy-has-kept-a-california-family-apart-for-two-years","authors":["byline_news_11888827"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_1323","news_29912","news_23456","news_28885","news_20202","news_717","news_25409","news_29913","news_24494"],"featImg":"news_11888834","label":"source_news_11888827"},"news_11888754":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11888754","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11888754","score":null,"sort":[1631800805000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"biden-administration-launches-website-to-help-reunite-families-separated-at-the-border","title":"Biden Administration Launches Website to Help Reunite Families Separated at the Border","publishDate":1631800805,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Biden administration is expanding its effort to find and reunite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797878/zero-tolerance-an-ongoing-history-of-family-separations-at-the-u-s-mexico-border\">migrant families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump presidency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Michelle Brané, Family Reunification Task Force of the Biden Administration\"]'We recognize that we can’t make these families completely whole again … but we want to do everything we can to put them on a path towards a better life.'[/pullquote]A federal task force is launching a new program Monday that officials say will expand efforts to find parents, many of whom are in remote Central American communities, and help them return to the United States, where they will get at least three years of legal residency and other assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that we can’t make these families completely whole again,” said Michelle Brané, executive director of the administration’s Family Reunification Task Force. “But we want to do everything we can to put them on a path towards a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the new program, the federal government has agreed on a contract with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an intergovernmental body that helps manage migration patterns and provide humanitarian assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program also includes a web portal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.together.gov/\">together.gov\u003c/a>, that will allow parents to contact the U.S. government to begin the process of reunification. The site and an outreach campaign to promote it will be in English, Spanish, Portuguese and several Indigenous languages of Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888800\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1347px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu.jpg\" alt='A graphic that reads out, \"Do you qualify? You may qualify for reunification if you are either: 1. A parent or legal guardian who was separated under U.S. immigration laws, including through the use of the Zero Tolerance policy, from their child by the U.S. government at the U.S.-Mexico border; 2. A child who was separated under U.S. immigration laws, including through the use of the Zero Tolerance policy, from their parent or legal guardian by the U.S. government at the U.S.-Mexico border; 3. The separation occurred between January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2021. Parents and children who were previously reunited also qualify for Task Force benefits and should register.' width=\"1347\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu.jpg 1347w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1347px) 100vw, 1347px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the qualifications to be eligible for the together.gov portal for parents seeking to be reunited with their children in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of together.gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The IOM will help with the logistics of reuniting families, explained Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants' Rights Project, who welcomed the Biden administration’s expanded efforts as “an important first step,” though he believes migrants should get more than three years of residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IOM will also be tasked with \"allowing the family to get passports more easily, [getting them] to the U.S. embassy, [getting] travel documents, [making] plane reservations, but also simply to get them from one place to another,\" said Gelernt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the parents are believed to be in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Brazil. They often lack passports and the means to travel to the U.S. to try to gain entry at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes they are living in rural communities, hours and hours away from the capital city, sometimes they need protection when they make that trip,\" Gelernt explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once parents are located and return to the United States, they will receive work permits, residency for three years and some support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, we need the families to be given permanent legal status in light of what the United States government deliberately did to these families,” Gelernt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU is in talks with the government to provide some compensation to the families as part of settlement talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1043px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite.jpg\" alt=\"aam-us.org graphic titled, 'Preparing your registration,' which includes the following sections: 1. Registration is the first step in reuniting your family. To complete the registration, be prepared to provide: 2. Your contact information (for example, email address, phone number, or physical address); 2. The separated parent's A-number, if known (this is an eight or nin-digit number that starts with the letter "A" that was on the documents provided by the U.S. immigration officials); 3. The separated child's A-number, if known; 4. The separated child's location, if known; 5. The separated child's contact information, if known (for example, email address or phone number); 6. If applicable, your legal representative's name and contact information (for example, phone mu,ber or email address). A signed Form G-28 is not required to complete the registration; 7. Registration is free. Only one registration is needed per family and should include all family members who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.\" width=\"1043\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite.jpg 1043w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1043px) 100vw, 1043px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the list of eligibility requirements from together.gov for parents separated from their children at the border to receive assistance from the federal government. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of together.gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A new strategy for an ongoing problem\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bringing the IOM on board to help with the often-complex task of getting expelled migrants back to the U.S., is a reflection of just how difficult it has been for President Joe Biden’s administration to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">a chapter in U.S. immigration history\u003c/a> that drew widespread condemnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11885260\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/BhaiFamily-1020x732.jpg\"]The task force has reunited about 50 families since starting its work in late February, but there are hundreds of parents, and perhaps between 1,000 and 2,000, who were separated from their children and have not been located. A lack of accurate records from the Trump administration makes it difficult to say for certain, said Brané from the Family Reunification Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a huge challenge that we are absolutely committed to following through to meet and to do whatever we can to reunify these families,” she said as she outlined the new program in an interview with The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868475/task-force-investigates-whether-trump-separated-families-earlier-than-known\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">separated thousands of migrant parents from their children in 2017 and 2018\u003c/a> as it moved to criminally prosecute people for crossing the southwest border, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/06/17/family-separation-under-trump-administration-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">including those seeking asylum\u003c/a>. Minors, who could not be held in criminal custody with their parents, were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS faced allegations that, in some shelters, caregivers were instructed not to touch or comfort the children, and in others, children suffered sexual abuse, including by staff members. From the shelters, the children were then typically sent to live with a sponsor, often a relative or someone else with a connection to the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid public outrage, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/latin-america-court-decisions-politics-courts-ap-top-news-1dafadd6fee4447cadd4a0179553026e\">issued an executive order\u003c/a> halting the practice of family separations in June 2018, days before a federal judge did the same and demanded that separated families be reunited in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 5,500 children were separated from their families, according to the ACLU. The task force came up with an initial estimate closer to 4,000 but has been examining hundreds of other cases.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'An apology is not enough'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas held a virtual call with reunited families last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made it very clear that an apology is not enough, that we really need to do a lot more for them and we recognize that,” Brané said, and added that the administration recognizes that it needs \"to find a better, longer-term solution to provide families with stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that, Brané said, will take more time, and perhaps action from Congress, to achieve that goal.\u003cbr>\n[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']\u003cbr>\nThe contract with the IOM and the expanded efforts to find migrant parents and help them reach the U.S. are initially planned to run for a year but could be extended if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll continue looking for people until we feel that we’ve exhausted the options,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This effort comes amid an increase over the past year in the number of migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, especially children traveling alone, in part due to violence and poverty in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of what the Biden administration has portrayed as an effort to address the “root causes” of border crossings, it announced separately Monday that the government would start taking applications for an expanded program that enables children in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to join parents and legal guardians who are citizens or have legal residency in the U.S. That program was halted under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Michelle Wiley.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Together with the International Organization for Migration, the Biden administration will be helping reunite migrant families separated at the border during the Trump presidency, using the website: together.gov.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1631838816,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1189},"headData":{"title":"Biden Administration Launches Website to Help Reunite Families Separated at the Border | KQED","description":"Together with the International Organization for Migration, the Biden administration will be helping reunite migrant families separated at the border during the Trump presidency, using the website: together.gov.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Biden Administration Launches Website to 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Administration","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A federal task force is launching a new program Monday that officials say will expand efforts to find parents, many of whom are in remote Central American communities, and help them return to the United States, where they will get at least three years of legal residency and other assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that we can’t make these families completely whole again,” said Michelle Brané, executive director of the administration’s Family Reunification Task Force. “But we want to do everything we can to put them on a path towards a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the new program, the federal government has agreed on a contract with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an intergovernmental body that helps manage migration patterns and provide humanitarian assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program also includes a web portal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.together.gov/\">together.gov\u003c/a>, that will allow parents to contact the U.S. government to begin the process of reunification. The site and an outreach campaign to promote it will be in English, Spanish, Portuguese and several Indigenous languages of Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888800\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1347px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu.jpg\" alt='A graphic that reads out, \"Do you qualify? You may qualify for reunification if you are either: 1. A parent or legal guardian who was separated under U.S. immigration laws, including through the use of the Zero Tolerance policy, from their child by the U.S. government at the U.S.-Mexico border; 2. A child who was separated under U.S. immigration laws, including through the use of the Zero Tolerance policy, from their parent or legal guardian by the U.S. government at the U.S.-Mexico border; 3. The separation occurred between January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2021. Parents and children who were previously reunited also qualify for Task Force benefits and should register.' width=\"1347\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu.jpg 1347w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/ploiuoytfrgyhu-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1347px) 100vw, 1347px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the qualifications to be eligible for the together.gov portal for parents seeking to be reunited with their children in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of together.gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The IOM will help with the logistics of reuniting families, explained Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants' Rights Project, who welcomed the Biden administration’s expanded efforts as “an important first step,” though he believes migrants should get more than three years of residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IOM will also be tasked with \"allowing the family to get passports more easily, [getting them] to the U.S. embassy, [getting] travel documents, [making] plane reservations, but also simply to get them from one place to another,\" said Gelernt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the parents are believed to be in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Brazil. They often lack passports and the means to travel to the U.S. to try to gain entry at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes they are living in rural communities, hours and hours away from the capital city, sometimes they need protection when they make that trip,\" Gelernt explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once parents are located and return to the United States, they will receive work permits, residency for three years and some support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, we need the families to be given permanent legal status in light of what the United States government deliberately did to these families,” Gelernt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU is in talks with the government to provide some compensation to the families as part of settlement talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1043px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite.jpg\" alt=\"aam-us.org graphic titled, 'Preparing your registration,' which includes the following sections: 1. Registration is the first step in reuniting your family. To complete the registration, be prepared to provide: 2. Your contact information (for example, email address, phone number, or physical address); 2. The separated parent's A-number, if known (this is an eight or nin-digit number that starts with the letter "A" that was on the documents provided by the U.S. immigration officials); 3. The separated child's A-number, if known; 4. The separated child's location, if known; 5. The separated child's contact information, if known (for example, email address or phone number); 6. If applicable, your legal representative's name and contact information (for example, phone mu,ber or email address). A signed Form G-28 is not required to complete the registration; 7. Registration is free. Only one registration is needed per family and should include all family members who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.\" width=\"1043\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite.jpg 1043w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/preparing-registration-reunite-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1043px) 100vw, 1043px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the list of eligibility requirements from together.gov for parents separated from their children at the border to receive assistance from the federal government. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of together.gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A new strategy for an ongoing problem\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bringing the IOM on board to help with the often-complex task of getting expelled migrants back to the U.S., is a reflection of just how difficult it has been for President Joe Biden’s administration to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">a chapter in U.S. immigration history\u003c/a> that drew widespread condemnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11885260","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/BhaiFamily-1020x732.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The task force has reunited about 50 families since starting its work in late February, but there are hundreds of parents, and perhaps between 1,000 and 2,000, who were separated from their children and have not been located. A lack of accurate records from the Trump administration makes it difficult to say for certain, said Brané from the Family Reunification Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a huge challenge that we are absolutely committed to following through to meet and to do whatever we can to reunify these families,” she said as she outlined the new program in an interview with The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868475/task-force-investigates-whether-trump-separated-families-earlier-than-known\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">separated thousands of migrant parents from their children in 2017 and 2018\u003c/a> as it moved to criminally prosecute people for crossing the southwest border, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/06/17/family-separation-under-trump-administration-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">including those seeking asylum\u003c/a>. Minors, who could not be held in criminal custody with their parents, were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS faced allegations that, in some shelters, caregivers were instructed not to touch or comfort the children, and in others, children suffered sexual abuse, including by staff members. From the shelters, the children were then typically sent to live with a sponsor, often a relative or someone else with a connection to the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid public outrage, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/latin-america-court-decisions-politics-courts-ap-top-news-1dafadd6fee4447cadd4a0179553026e\">issued an executive order\u003c/a> halting the practice of family separations in June 2018, days before a federal judge did the same and demanded that separated families be reunited in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 5,500 children were separated from their families, according to the ACLU. The task force came up with an initial estimate closer to 4,000 but has been examining hundreds of other cases.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'An apology is not enough'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas held a virtual call with reunited families last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made it very clear that an apology is not enough, that we really need to do a lot more for them and we recognize that,” Brané said, and added that the administration recognizes that it needs \"to find a better, longer-term solution to provide families with stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that, Brané said, will take more time, and perhaps action from Congress, to achieve that goal.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"immigration"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe contract with the IOM and the expanded efforts to find migrant parents and help them reach the U.S. are initially planned to run for a year but could be extended if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll continue looking for people until we feel that we’ve exhausted the options,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This effort comes amid an increase over the past year in the number of migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, especially children traveling alone, in part due to violence and poverty in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of what the Biden administration has portrayed as an effort to address the “root causes” of border crossings, it announced separately Monday that the government would start taking applications for an expanded program that enables children in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to join parents and legal guardians who are citizens or have legal residency in the U.S. That program was halted under Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Michelle Wiley.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11888754/biden-administration-launches-website-to-help-reunite-families-separated-at-the-border","authors":["byline_news_11888754"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_29909","news_29052","news_23456","news_28885","news_29236","news_20202","news_20584","news_21791","news_717","news_20452"],"featImg":"news_11888806","label":"news"},"news_11878926":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11878926","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11878926","score":null,"sort":[1624394077000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"separated-at-the-border-a-father-reunites-with-his-son-in-california-but-struggles-remain","title":"Separated at the Border, a Father Reunites With His Son in California. But Struggles Remain","publishDate":1624394077,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\"Coming here, we lost it all.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what Néstor, 14, says now about his journey to the United States three years ago. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father, Melvin, says he received death threats from local gang members and leaving El Salvador was his best shot to protect his family. Néstor's mother was pregnant at the time, and so just father and son made the journey north. Néstor still hasn't had the opportunity to meet his new brother. \"Whenever I think about that,\" Néstor says in Spanish, \"I feel like crying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families who migrate to the U.S. from Central and South America to seek asylum know they will be leaving behind loved ones. What roughly 5,500 of those families didn't know is that if they made it all the way to the U.S.-Mexico border, they would also be separated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melvin, on being separated from his son\"]'The most difficult part was not knowing anything about him, not even knowing where he was, not having any communication.'[/pullquote]Néstor and Melvin — they asked not to use their last name to protect their anonymity and safety as they apply for asylum — are among the families who were split apart by the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy in 2018. The policy was part of a strategy meant to curb legal and illegal immigration, but it's been widely criticized by immigration advocates for being psychologically traumatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melvin, 33, and Néstor shared with NPR some of the details of their story as they continue to process what happened to them and their asylum case makes its way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parents Begged Detention Center Officials for Information\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Melvin and Néstor left their home in El Salvador on May 26, 2018. Néstor's mom, pregnant with her third son, felt unable to make the dangerous journey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is when I made the decision to bring [Néstor] because he was the oldest one,\" Melvin says in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his dad covered over 1,000 miles as they made their way to the U.S. by car, raft and foot. Melvin sometimes carried his son, exhausted from the journey, in his arms and on his back. They say the journey was terrifying — navigating police extortion, death threats and physical suffering. They passed over the Rio Grande on a makeshift raft, scared for their lives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Melvin and Néstor reached the U.S. border on June 5 — a few months after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions formally announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961048895/justice-department-rescinds-trumps-zero-tolerance-immigration-policy\">the zero-tolerance policy\u003c/a> — they hoped their journey was over and could begin the process of applying for asylum. Unaware they would be separated, they turned themselves in at the Port Isabel checkpoint in Texas and got in vans headed for detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were taken to separate facilities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11877128 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-1020x680.jpg']Néstor recalls being put in a van with other separated children and driven to a place he says looked like a prison. There were no cloth blankets. The children were given Mylar wraps to keep warm. Néstor doesn't know how many days he was there. He lost count. He didn't know where his father was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" 'And the children? And the children?\" Melvin says he and other parents begged detention center officials to tell them where their children were, but he says officials wouldn't say. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877128/reunification-alone-is-not-enough-biden-task-force-finds-2100-children-may-still-be-separated-from-parents\">Biden administration-era task force\u003c/a> has found that the strategy was so unclear, it might have been that even those officials didn't know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I'd] cry at night, feel sad, and not know what the future would be, because for me, every day what they told me was 'No, they're going to deport you. They're going to send you back and your kids are going to stay here. They're going to get adopted.' I would say, 'No, how are you going to take away my son? That's my son, he's mine. You can't, you can't,\" Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Néstor was also asking for his father. He says the adults caring for him always said \"soon,\" but soon never came. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2914-edit_custom-6cc5a8ed5d4b8ca48d3c5b0eef75bdaf5b881613-scaled-e1624391955465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878929\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin (left) shows the notes his son, Néstor, wrote while they were separated. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, officials transferred Néstor north, more than 1,000 miles away from his father in Texas, to New York to stay with a foster mom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he cried at night, worried he had lost his whole family forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fear was not unfounded. NPR's immigration team \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004205868/bidens-task-force-has-reunited-36-migrant-families-with-hundreds-to-go\">has reported\u003c/a> that immigrant advocates believe at least 1,000 children remain separated from their parents. The Department of Homeland Security says it cannot find a record of reunification for at least 2,100 children, but that is partly due to poor record keeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most difficult part was not knowing anything about him, not even knowing where he was, not having any communication,\" Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>They're Reunited, But There's Still Fear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On June 26, 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630463522/5-things-to-know-about-migrant-family-reunification\">a federal judge ordered the government\u003c/a> to reunify separated families. Exactly two months later, Néstor and Melvin were reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Néstor had been apart from his dad for about two and a half months when a man came to New York to pick him up from his foster home and escort him to the airport to fly to California, where his dad was living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2748-edit_custom-f5d106c8704a2fd81aa9353f92e641601020a008-scaled-e1624392037467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878928\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Néstor (left) and his father Melvin left their home in El Salvador in 2018. They covered over 1,000 miles by car, raft and foot, and then they were taken to separate facilities when they reached the U.S. border. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor says he gathered what little possessions he had — mostly notes he'd been writing to his father to try to maintain their connection — and he boarded a plane to Los Angeles. He recalls this next moment with an audible smile: When he saw his dad at the airport, he ran into his arms and instantly cried. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were mixed emotions, something unexplainable in that moment to see him arrive,\" Melvin remembers. \"After so much uncertainty of not knowing what would happen or know anything about him, it was something beautiful after so much pain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a joyous moment, but Néstor has struggled in many ways since. As the months passed, there were times when Néstor didn't want to leave the house or play sports. He's had nightmares. Melvin says he watched his son withdraw and feel unmotivated — something many separated children feel, says Melissa Tith, a therapist and a program supervisor at Seneca Family of Agencies, a nonprofit organization working to get free mental health support to people like Néstor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_3096-edit_custom-49463e598f578c3ba4c6d1c1005e5f553618b515-scaled-e1624393197470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878930\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin and Néstor are reunited and currently live together in Southern California as they wait for their asylum case to be processed. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor and Melvin are living in Southern California while they wait for their asylum case to be processed. But as NPR has reported, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/982795844/biden-administration-considers-overhaul-of-asylum-system-at-southern-border\">that could take years\u003c/a>. And there is no guarantee they'll get to stay. The Biden administration says it's helping affected families with free therapy and is negotiating with immigration advocates about doing more. That could include granting legal status to families separated under zero tolerance, but there are no firm public commitments yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2020, Néstor has been seeing a therapist weekly through Seneca. He says it's helping. It's a slow process of untangling the feelings and fear he experienced while separated and it may be a lifelong effort, Tith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hardly have any more nightmares,\" he says. He's just graduated middle school and he's excited to start high school. He says he wants to grow up to become a surgeon in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They both imagine a life in the U.S., but that future is far from certain. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most valuable thing is to have our family together and have good health,\" Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joel Rose contributed to and Heidi Glenn edited the digital story. \u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Separated+At+The+Border%2C+A+Father+Reunites+With+His+Son.+But+Struggles+Remain&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Néstor was 11 when he and his dad, Melvin, left El Salvador and crossed into Texas in 2018. They were separated for over two months, split apart by the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1624469914,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1422},"headData":{"title":"Separated at the Border, a Father Reunites With His Son in California. But Struggles Remain | KQED","description":"Néstor was 11 when he and his dad, Melvin, left El Salvador and crossed into Texas in 2018. They were separated for over two months, split apart by the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Separated at the Border, a Father Reunites With His Son in California. 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Néstor's mother was pregnant at the time, and so just father and son made the journey north. Néstor still hasn't had the opportunity to meet his new brother. \"Whenever I think about that,\" Néstor says in Spanish, \"I feel like crying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families who migrate to the U.S. from Central and South America to seek asylum know they will be leaving behind loved ones. What roughly 5,500 of those families didn't know is that if they made it all the way to the U.S.-Mexico border, they would also be separated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The most difficult part was not knowing anything about him, not even knowing where he was, not having any communication.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Melvin, on being separated from his son","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Néstor and Melvin — they asked not to use their last name to protect their anonymity and safety as they apply for asylum — are among the families who were split apart by the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy in 2018. The policy was part of a strategy meant to curb legal and illegal immigration, but it's been widely criticized by immigration advocates for being psychologically traumatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melvin, 33, and Néstor shared with NPR some of the details of their story as they continue to process what happened to them and their asylum case makes its way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Parents Begged Detention Center Officials for Information\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Melvin and Néstor left their home in El Salvador on May 26, 2018. Néstor's mom, pregnant with her third son, felt unable to make the dangerous journey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is when I made the decision to bring [Néstor] because he was the oldest one,\" Melvin says in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his dad covered over 1,000 miles as they made their way to the U.S. by car, raft and foot. Melvin sometimes carried his son, exhausted from the journey, in his arms and on his back. They say the journey was terrifying — navigating police extortion, death threats and physical suffering. They passed over the Rio Grande on a makeshift raft, scared for their lives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Melvin and Néstor reached the U.S. border on June 5 — a few months after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions formally announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961048895/justice-department-rescinds-trumps-zero-tolerance-immigration-policy\">the zero-tolerance policy\u003c/a> — they hoped their journey was over and could begin the process of applying for asylum. Unaware they would be separated, they turned themselves in at the Port Isabel checkpoint in Texas and got in vans headed for detention centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were taken to separate facilities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11877128","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/GettyImages-1232636077-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Néstor recalls being put in a van with other separated children and driven to a place he says looked like a prison. There were no cloth blankets. The children were given Mylar wraps to keep warm. Néstor doesn't know how many days he was there. He lost count. He didn't know where his father was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" 'And the children? And the children?\" Melvin says he and other parents begged detention center officials to tell them where their children were, but he says officials wouldn't say. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877128/reunification-alone-is-not-enough-biden-task-force-finds-2100-children-may-still-be-separated-from-parents\">Biden administration-era task force\u003c/a> has found that the strategy was so unclear, it might have been that even those officials didn't know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I'd] cry at night, feel sad, and not know what the future would be, because for me, every day what they told me was 'No, they're going to deport you. They're going to send you back and your kids are going to stay here. They're going to get adopted.' I would say, 'No, how are you going to take away my son? That's my son, he's mine. You can't, you can't,\" Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Néstor was also asking for his father. He says the adults caring for him always said \"soon,\" but soon never came. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2914-edit_custom-6cc5a8ed5d4b8ca48d3c5b0eef75bdaf5b881613-scaled-e1624391955465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878929\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin (left) shows the notes his son, Néstor, wrote while they were separated. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, officials transferred Néstor north, more than 1,000 miles away from his father in Texas, to New York to stay with a foster mom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he cried at night, worried he had lost his whole family forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fear was not unfounded. NPR's immigration team \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004205868/bidens-task-force-has-reunited-36-migrant-families-with-hundreds-to-go\">has reported\u003c/a> that immigrant advocates believe at least 1,000 children remain separated from their parents. The Department of Homeland Security says it cannot find a record of reunification for at least 2,100 children, but that is partly due to poor record keeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most difficult part was not knowing anything about him, not even knowing where he was, not having any communication,\" Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>They're Reunited, But There's Still Fear\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On June 26, 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630463522/5-things-to-know-about-migrant-family-reunification\">a federal judge ordered the government\u003c/a> to reunify separated families. Exactly two months later, Néstor and Melvin were reunited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Néstor had been apart from his dad for about two and a half months when a man came to New York to pick him up from his foster home and escort him to the airport to fly to California, where his dad was living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_2748-edit_custom-f5d106c8704a2fd81aa9353f92e641601020a008-scaled-e1624392037467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878928\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Néstor (left) and his father Melvin left their home in El Salvador in 2018. They covered over 1,000 miles by car, raft and foot, and then they were taken to separate facilities when they reached the U.S. border. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor says he gathered what little possessions he had — mostly notes he'd been writing to his father to try to maintain their connection — and he boarded a plane to Los Angeles. He recalls this next moment with an audible smile: When he saw his dad at the airport, he ran into his arms and instantly cried. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were mixed emotions, something unexplainable in that moment to see him arrive,\" Melvin remembers. \"After so much uncertainty of not knowing what would happen or know anything about him, it was something beautiful after so much pain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a joyous moment, but Néstor has struggled in many ways since. As the months passed, there were times when Néstor didn't want to leave the house or play sports. He's had nightmares. Melvin says he watched his son withdraw and feel unmotivated — something many separated children feel, says Melissa Tith, a therapist and a program supervisor at Seneca Family of Agencies, a nonprofit organization working to get free mental health support to people like Néstor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/c5d_3096-edit_custom-49463e598f578c3ba4c6d1c1005e5f553618b515-scaled-e1624393197470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878930\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin and Néstor are reunited and currently live together in Southern California as they wait for their asylum case to be processed. \u003ccite>(Jessica Pons/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Néstor and Melvin are living in Southern California while they wait for their asylum case to be processed. But as NPR has reported, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/01/982795844/biden-administration-considers-overhaul-of-asylum-system-at-southern-border\">that could take years\u003c/a>. And there is no guarantee they'll get to stay. The Biden administration says it's helping affected families with free therapy and is negotiating with immigration advocates about doing more. That could include granting legal status to families separated under zero tolerance, but there are no firm public commitments yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October 2020, Néstor has been seeing a therapist weekly through Seneca. He says it's helping. It's a slow process of untangling the feelings and fear he experienced while separated and it may be a lifelong effort, Tith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hardly have any more nightmares,\" he says. He's just graduated middle school and he's excited to start high school. He says he wants to grow up to become a surgeon in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They both imagine a life in the U.S., but that future is far from certain. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most valuable thing is to have our family together and have good health,\" Melvin says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joel Rose contributed to and Heidi Glenn edited the digital story. \u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Separated+At+The+Border%2C+A+Father+Reunites+With+His+Son.+But+Struggles+Remain&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11878926/separated-at-the-border-a-father-reunites-with-his-son-in-california-but-struggles-remain","authors":["byline_news_11878926"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_23455","news_1323","news_23456","news_28885","news_29236","news_20202"],"featImg":"news_11878927","label":"source_news_11878926"},"news_11872003":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11872003","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11872003","score":null,"sort":[1620064041000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"biden-task-force-reunifies-handful-of-families-separated-at-u-s-border","title":"Biden Task Force Reunifies Handful of Families Separated at US Border","publishDate":1620064041,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A handful of migrant families that were separated at the border by the Trump administration will be allowed to reunify in the United States this week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four families will be the first to be reunified through a task force that was created by President Biden shortly after taking office in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to allow migrant parents into the U.S. to reunify with their children here marks a sharp break with the Trump administration, which resisted allowing parents who were previously deported to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our team is dedicated to finding every family and giving them an opportunity to reunite and heal,\" Mayorkas told reporters Sunday. He did not explain how DHS selected the first four families.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas\"]'Our team is dedicated to finding every family and giving them an opportunity to reunite and heal.'[/pullquote]The families came from Honduras and Mexico, and some had been separated as far back as 2017 — months before the Trump administration formally announced its \"zero tolerance\" policy that led to the separation of thousands of families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are children who were 3 years old at the time of separation. They are teenagers who have had to live without their parents during their most formative years,\" Mayorkas said. \"They are mothers who fled extremely dangerous situations in their home countries, who remained in dangerous environments in Mexico, holding out hope to reunite with their children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates welcomed the announcement but expressed frustration at the slow pace of reunification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are thrilled for the four families that are going to be reunited this week, but we are not feeling like this is a time for celebration,\" said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, who fought the Trump administration over family separation in court. \"Having been doing this for four years, we know how much work is left to be done. We assume and I hope the Biden administration recognizes that as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"immigration\"]The announcement on family reunification comes as the Biden administration faces mounting criticism about its handling of the southern border — from both sides of the political spectrum. Hardliners blame the administration for encouraging a surge of unauthorized migration at the border by relaxing some of former President Donald Trump's immigration policies. Immigrant advocates say the Biden administration continues to send asylum-seekers back to danger in Mexico under an order put in place by his predecessor more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Brané, executive director of the family reunification task force and a longtime human rights advocate, said the parents would be given temporary permission to enter the U.S. through a process known as humanitarian parole. Brané said more than 1,000 families have yet to be reunited, although incomplete record-keeping by the Trump administration has made it difficult to give a precise number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates believe the Trump administration originally separated more than 5,500 families. A federal judge forced the Trump administration to reunite thousands of families in 2018, but that ruling did not help many parents who were deported before the case was filed. The ACLU is in settlement talks with the administration that would cover all of the separated families, Gelernt, of the ACLU, said in an interview. Immigrant rights groups have also urged the Biden administration to provide permanent legal status, as well as support services and potential financial compensation for families that were separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brané said she could not detail any settlement negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The one thing we did agree on is that we will continue to reunify those where we can as we move forward in those negotiations,\" she said. \"So we hope that in the coming weeks and months, reunifications will continue until a larger formal process is announced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Separated+Families+To+Reunite+In+The+U.S.+As+Immigrant+Advocates+Push+For+More&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Four migrant families that were separated at the border by the Trump administration will be allowed to reunify in the U.S. this week, the secretary of Homeland Security announced. Immigrant rights advocates are pushing for many more reunifications.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1620071565,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":664},"headData":{"title":"Biden Task Force Reunifies Handful of Families Separated at US Border | KQED","description":"Four migrant families that were separated at the border by the Trump administration will be allowed to reunify in the U.S. this week, the secretary of Homeland Security announced. 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He did not explain how DHS selected the first four families.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Our team is dedicated to finding every family and giving them an opportunity to reunite and heal.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The families came from Honduras and Mexico, and some had been separated as far back as 2017 — months before the Trump administration formally announced its \"zero tolerance\" policy that led to the separation of thousands of families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are children who were 3 years old at the time of separation. They are teenagers who have had to live without their parents during their most formative years,\" Mayorkas said. \"They are mothers who fled extremely dangerous situations in their home countries, who remained in dangerous environments in Mexico, holding out hope to reunite with their children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates welcomed the announcement but expressed frustration at the slow pace of reunification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are thrilled for the four families that are going to be reunited this week, but we are not feeling like this is a time for celebration,\" said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, who fought the Trump administration over family separation in court. \"Having been doing this for four years, we know how much work is left to be done. We assume and I hope the Biden administration recognizes that as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"immigration"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The announcement on family reunification comes as the Biden administration faces mounting criticism about its handling of the southern border — from both sides of the political spectrum. Hardliners blame the administration for encouraging a surge of unauthorized migration at the border by relaxing some of former President Donald Trump's immigration policies. Immigrant advocates say the Biden administration continues to send asylum-seekers back to danger in Mexico under an order put in place by his predecessor more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Brané, executive director of the family reunification task force and a longtime human rights advocate, said the parents would be given temporary permission to enter the U.S. through a process known as humanitarian parole. Brané said more than 1,000 families have yet to be reunited, although incomplete record-keeping by the Trump administration has made it difficult to give a precise number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates believe the Trump administration originally separated more than 5,500 families. A federal judge forced the Trump administration to reunite thousands of families in 2018, but that ruling did not help many parents who were deported before the case was filed. The ACLU is in settlement talks with the administration that would cover all of the separated families, Gelernt, of the ACLU, said in an interview. Immigrant rights groups have also urged the Biden administration to provide permanent legal status, as well as support services and potential financial compensation for families that were separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brané said she could not detail any settlement negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The one thing we did agree on is that we will continue to reunify those where we can as we move forward in those negotiations,\" she said. \"So we hope that in the coming weeks and months, reunifications will continue until a larger formal process is announced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Separated+Families+To+Reunite+In+The+U.S.+As+Immigrant+Advocates+Push+For+More&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11872003/biden-task-force-reunifies-handful-of-families-separated-at-u-s-border","authors":["byline_news_11872003"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_3716","news_23720","news_23456","news_28885","news_20202"],"featImg":"news_11872004","label":"source_news_11872003"},"news_11868475":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11868475","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11868475","score":null,"sort":[1617832034000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"task-force-investigates-whether-trump-separated-families-earlier-than-known","title":"Task Force Investigates Whether Trump Separated Families Earlier Than Known","publishDate":1617832034,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>President Biden's family separation task force is scouring through thousands of unreviewed files to determine whether the Trump administration began separating families within the first six months of coming into office. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force uncovered 5,600 files from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement from Jan. 20, 2017, the day Donald Trump was sworn in as president, to July 2017. A DHS official acknowledged the task force has yet to reunite families but noted it remains committed to that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've begun a process for reviewing and cross-checking those files,\" said the DHS official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity. \"This is a manual process, manually going through each file, looking for clues. And it's our hope and expectation that this process will review only a few additional families. But it's important to look through them and make sure.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns that the Trump administration started separating families within the first months of taking office have grown since the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found that children had been separated from their parents during a pilot program before the Trump administration's \"zero tolerance\" policy, which was first implemented in mid-2018. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project, pointed to the OIG report and reports by lawyers that there may have been separations \"in significant numbers\" during the first few months of the Trump administration. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given the magnitude of the Trump administration's family separation practice, I am not going to be shocked if there were dozens or possibly hundreds of separations in the first six months,\" said Gelernt, who is the lead attorney in the ACLU lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='family-separation']The Trump administration separated as many as 5,500 children from their parents. More than 1,400 parents were ultimately without their children, according to immigrant advocates. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total number that remain separated is unclear, but immigration advocates estimate at least 500 children still remain separated from their parents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858316/biden-signs-immigration-executive-orders-establishes-task-force-to-reunite-separated-families\">formed a multi-agency task force\u003c/a> to help reunite parents and children who remain separated. The DHS official said the task force has yet to reunite any of those families but is committed to the goal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been working every day to address the tragedy that occurred when the previous administration intentionally separated families,\" the official said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelernt said the slow start is concerning but noted there has been progress. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would hope that the task force would be up and running immediately and the families would have already been reunited,\" he said. \"But we are pleased that there has been progress in the past week. It's going to be essential that that progress continue.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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