Immigrant parents fight chaotic system for their children

 

August 3, 2018



HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government's improvised system to reunite immigrant families it separated at the border has left hundreds of parents in limbo after they were deemed "ineligible" to get their children back.

They include a man who had his 2-year-old daughter taken because agents didn't believe he was the father, forcing him to submit DNA evidence to prove he was the parent.

Hundreds of parents were deported, including a family in Honduras losing patience each day their 11-year-old child remains in the U.S. A father in Guatemala prefers that his teenager remain in the U.S. because it's sa...



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