Trump administration is fingerprinting family members wishing to take unaccompanied child

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Another new policy will make it even more difficult to reunite children with their families. The Trump administration is now fingerprinting family members wishing to take in the unaccompanied children, and it wants to share other information it has about the children's families with the Department of Homeland Security.

ORR did not respond to a request for an interview.

Acting HHS Assistant Secretary Steven Wagner outlined the policy in a recent Senate hearing, saying, "We're going to give potential sponsor information to DHS so that they can provide their input based on all of the information that they have available," which he said will "improve the quality of our decision-making about the appropriateness of the sponsors."

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., asked Wagner if the intention was for DHS to then "enforce immigration laws." Wagner said that while his agency had no such intention, DHS has "their job to do."

Sharing information with DHS, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will likely mean parents and family members in the U.S. illegally will not come forward for the children out of fear they'll be arrested — leading to longer stays for the children in the ORR shelters.

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620451012/dhs-nearly-2-000-children-separated-from-adults-at-border-in-six-weeks?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180616

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