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For many immigrant families, the fight for reunification is just beginning

  • Written by Marcia Zug, Professor of Family Law, University of South Carolina

President Donald Trump signed an executive order June 20 purporting to end immigrant family separations at U.S. border with Mexico. Four days later, the departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services announced a plan to reunite approximately 2,000 children who were taken from their parents at the border between April and the time...

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