Migrant Girls Held In East Bay Reunited With Parents: Congressman

PLEASANT HILL, CA — Two migrant girls who were separated from their parents at the Mexican border and held at a Pleasant Hill children's shelter as a result of the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy have been reunited with their families, Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Walnut Creek, said in a statement. DeSaulnier received an update from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the adolescent girls' status Thursday, which said the families had been reunited within the past five days.

"While today (Thursday) is the deadline for the federal government to reunify all remaining families, 900 more parents have been deemed ineligible, many with a chance of never seeing their children again,"
DeSaulnier said.

After visiting the U.S.-Mexico border last week, he said he was "saddened, shocked, and appalled."

"This is not the America I know that strives to live by the motto inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,'" he said.

By Bay City News Service

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