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Biden immigration overhaul would reunite families split up by deportation

  • Written by Robert McKee Irwin, Deputy Director, Global Migration Center, University of California, Davis
imageA mother who was deported to Mexico reconnects with her daughters at a family reunification event put on at the U.S.-Mexico border, November 2017. Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images

Hundreds of thousands of immigrant families have been separated by deportation from the United States, in many cases with a parent on one side of the border and children on...

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