Reuniting Families Separated At The Border Proves Complicated
A volunteer in Baltimore spends her days trying to reconnect migrant children and parents who have been separated and detained. One story illustrate why it is not necessarily simple.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration has 30 days to reunite all families that it has separated at the border. But advocates and activists who have already been trying to reconnect individual migrant children with their parents say their experiences suggest the process of reunification will be complicated.
A case in point is Emily Kephart, who works for a nonprofit called Kids in Need of Defense or KIND.
Kephart is based in Baltimore, but she spends her
