Years after a widely criticised United States policy known as “family separation” forcibly took migrant children away from their families at the southern border, nearly 1,000 have yet to be returned.Officials said on Thursday that a task force created under US President Joe Biden has reunited about 689 children with their families. Another 2,176 children were reconnected with their relatives before the task force’s creation, due in part to legal action by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).However, out of an estimated 3,881 children taken from their families between 2017 and 2021, a total of 998 remain separated as of February 1, the US Department of Homeland Security said in a fact sheet on Thursday.
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