New statistics: the government is separating 60 children a day from parents at the border

Trump administration officials said Tuesday that 2,342 children have been separated from 2,206 parents at the US-Mexico border between May 5 and June 9 as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of prosecuting people who cross the border illegally.

The new numbers are the best indication of how many families have been separated since Attorney General Jeff Sessions and officials from the Department of Homeland Security announced their “zero tolerance” policy in early May.

Last week, the government declared that 1,995 children had been separated from their parents from April 19 to May 31 — an average of 46 a day. But that included a few weeks before the “zero tolerance” policy was in full effect. The new numbers, which fit pretty neatly into the amount of time that the policy has been in place, show that under “zero tolerance” an average of 60 children have been separated from parents each day.




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