The United States is returning some unaccompanied migrant children arrested on the US-Mexico border to their home countries under new coronavirus guidelines, a move the Trump administration has up until now been unable to do
Earlier this month, at the direction of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security began suspending entry of all migrants"seeking to enter the US without proper travel documentation" for both the northern and southern border. Migrant children arrested by Border Patrol without a parent or guardian were initially exempt.
Read MoreBut against the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak, the administration is trying to move forward with some of its most restrictionist policies that have struggled to be put into practice, including the quick expulsion of unaccompanied children. Over recent days, HHS noticed a drop in referrals from DHS, which takes children into custody before turning them over to HHS.
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