Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says
The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents. That’s according to a letter that Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon sent Friday to the office responsible for caring for the children in the U.S. Wyden argues that “this move threatens to separate children from their families, lawyers, and support systems, to thrust them back into the very conditions they are seeking refuge from.” Guatemala’s foreign minister says the government has told the U.S. it’s willing to receive hundreds of Guatemalan minors. The move is another step in the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement efforts, even as the treatment of unaccompanied children is one of the most sensitive issues in immigration.