Under Sabraw's order, children under 5 years old had to be reunified within two weeks, and children between 5 and 17 had be reunified by the end of July.
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Advice from one reunified child to thousands still waiting: pic.twitter.
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Helmut Kohl, the leader who reunified Germany, died at 87.
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When will the public know how many families have been reunified?
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It's now a symbol of the new Berlin, of reunified Berlin.
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For Jews, the newly reunified Germany was a particularly attractive destination.
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More than 1,400 were reunified by the court's July 26 deadline.
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Then the Berlin Wall fell and the reunified Germany suddenly felt insulated.
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Sabraw has temporarily barred deportations of reunified families pending a final decision.
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There was concern about kids being reunified to someone who wasn't appropriate.
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It is unclear how many parents and kids have been reunified and deported.
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In the interim, a judge temporarily stopped federal officials from deporting reunified families.
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The Communist Party may be wary about the prospect of a reunified Korea.
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An additional approximately 48 children who remain in custody include 17 whose parents are in the US but have chosen not to be reunified with their kids, as well as 30 whose parents have been deemed unfit to be reunified.
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An additional approximately 70 children who remain in custody include 22 whose parents are in the United States but have chosen not to be reunified with their children as well as 33 whose parents have been deemed unfit to be reunified.
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An additional approximately 70 children who remain in custody include 27 whose parents are in the US but have chosen not to be reunified with their children, as well as 26 whose parents have been deemed unfit to be reunified.
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Minor children age 85033 and older were ordered to be reunified within 30 days.
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Two have already been reunified since the initial list was made over the weekend.
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The group has helped about a dozen reunified parents and raised more than $203,000.
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"Germany became rich, powerful, reunified and got its full sovereignty back," Mr. Techau said.
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They feel the customs checks would create a reunified Ireland in all but name.
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Reunified Germany carried a responsibility to uphold freedom at home and abroad, she said.
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Twenty-six were separated from parents; three of them have been reunified with family members.
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Now, the partially restored villa hosts an exhibition dedicated to hopes of a reunified Korea.
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It also doesn't like the possibility of a reunified Korea under a South Korean government.
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There are 2,551 kids 5 years and older who are still waiting to be reunified.
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It has lain in archives since at least 1990, when the two Germanys were reunified.
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Morales Rocketto said her coalition will continue the efforts even after all families are reunified.
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Less than 200 are still considered "unaccompanied" because they have not been reunified with family.
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How were students reunified with their families, and how were parents of the deceased told?
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There will be no place for the North's leadership in a "reunified" government or economy.
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Ten of those parents have been reunified with their kids in their home countries so far.
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He said they government has not told him how many children have been reunified with parents.
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Adolfo Flores: The government said that it reunified reunited all of the families that were eligible.
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PARENTS ELIGIBLE FOR REUNIFICATION: 1,634 —879 parents successfully reunified in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
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Another 16 children will be reunified shortly, once the parents have been verified, federal officials said.
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Another 85033 children will be reunified shortly, once the parents have been verified, federal officials said.
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Unemployment in Germany is now lower than at any point since the country reunified in 1990.
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The federal government has reunified hundreds of families in recent weeks, but many still remain separated.
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China considers Taiwan as a breakaway province that will one day be reunified with the mainland.
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The country, once divided by hate, is now a nation reunified by a partnership with nature.
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A total of 1,937 children have been reunified with parents, up only 14 from last week.
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Its goal: to unite Nashville around a plan — and funding — for a reunified Fort Negley Park.
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Three children who had been separated from parents have been reunified with them or other guardians in the US. A "departure tracker" showed that 223 children had departed the facility since it opened; 2162 of them reunified with a sponsor, the other three transferred to another provider.
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Berlin was known as a European center for LGBT+ nightlife long before the country reunified in 1990.
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"I was happy, because I thought, 'Oh, I'm going to be reunified with my family,'" David recalled.
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For now, it is a big win in a bigger fight for their family to be reunified.
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"If I could have reunified all of those children by yesterday, it would be done," he said.
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That was the first World Cup victory of a reunified Germany (West Germany won three previous times).
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The judge issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday, blocking the government from deporting any reunified families.
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China claims Taiwan as its territory and says the island needs to be reunified with the mainland.
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Another 50 kids are on the verge of being reunified with their parents in those home countries.
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The ACLU has argued that the reunified families need time to discuss their options with legal counsel.
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The other 24 children had not been reunified with their family because of the circumstances of the adult.
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Through such outreach, 10 children have been reunified with their parents in their original countries, the filing said.
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Government attorneys on Friday said that 136 parents have waived their right to be reunified with their children.
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But that's only half of the total number of children eligible for being reunified who are in custody.
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The group is working to determine if more children — or parents — have also been deported without being reunified.
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A total of 2,162 children from separated families have been reunified with their parents, the court filing said.
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More than 1,400 families were reunified by Sabraw's deadline, but hundreds of children remained separated and in federal custody.
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The court order identified 2,551 separated children — ages 5 and older — who were to be reunified with their parents.
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THE first, Long March, generation of Chinese Communist leaders always seemed impatient to see Taiwan "reunified" with the mainland.
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After Germany reunified in 1990, it was not just state-supported artists from the GDR who found themselves adrift.
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"Sobriety is a major factor in a parent's ability to be reunified with their children," the foster mother explained.
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Wohlgefahrt is currently figuring out the best way to get Hazel reunified with her family some 1,700 miles away.
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Unemployment dropped to 5.3 percent last month from 5.4 percent in February, the lowest since Germany reunified in 1990.
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To date, 1,1833 out of 2,654 children identified as separated from their parents have been reunified, the administration says.
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"A mountain" of other boys had been released, Eduardo told his mother, presumably to be reunified with their parents.
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In recent interviews, lawyers said that at least three parents or guardians brought to the New York area to be reunified with children are still being held in an immigrant detention center outside of New York City and have not been reunified; they believe at least two have a child under 5.
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That took the unemployment rate down to 5.2 percent, the Office said, the lowest since the country reunified in 1990.
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For whatever reason, American conservatism is coming apart and there's no clear answer as to how it will be reunified.
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" The current situation for children who haven't been reunified: "Still, the circumstances remain murky for more than 1,000 other parents.
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Some may have been released to family or other sponsors, but it is not known how many have been reunified.
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He noted some were already reunified with their younger sibling, and they are working to make arrangements for the rest.
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Stauffer said the children housed at Homestead had been either reunified with a sponsor or have transferred to state facilities.
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But would Mr. Xi ever allow the Korean Peninsula to be reunified by a government allied with the United States?
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More than 100 families have made that decision, versus more than 50 who have opted to be reunified back home.
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I want -- I want the children to be secured and I want them to be reunified with their parents of course.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has said before that China "must be and will be" reunified with Taiwan — by force if necessary.
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The KMT favours warmer ties with China, and still upholds the idea that the two countries will one day be reunified.
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Even more important is destroying both the sample and the data once a match is made and the family is reunified.
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Parents may now have very little time at all to locate their children and be reunified with them before getting deported.
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Those families reunified thus far are those whose children were in government custody when the judge issued the order in June.
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Furthermore, the promise being quoted pertained only to the eastern part of reunified Germany, which has been obeyed according to Gorbachev himself.
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According to the court's numbers, 1,012 of the 1,85033 parents identified as eligible had been reunified with their children as of Tuesday.
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According to the Department of Health and Human Services, 57 children out of 103 in its custody were reunified with their parents.
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Some families are only partially reunified; a child may be returned to his mother, for instance, while his father remains in detention.
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Mike Kelly's district became more competitive after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court re-drew the map earlier this year and reunified Erie County.
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They could waive their right to be reunified and allow their children to remain in the U.S. to fight for legal status.
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Judge Sabraw then issued an order that all the families be reunified within about 30 days — a deadline that expires on Thursday.
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Federal officials now say there are 47 separated children still in ORR custody who are potentially eligible to be reunified with a parent.
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But to bet on a reunified Cyprus implies a faith in Mr Erdogan's statesmanship that the Turkish president has done little to warrant.
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It will also help Spanish speaking immigration experts acting as volunteers who are traveling to ensure that all families are supported and reunified.
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To the French it was a way of taming the economic might of a newly reunified Germany and the power of the Bundesbank.
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Data on months of reunifications • Since the judge's ruling, 1,959 children from separated families have been reunified with parents in the United States.
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One child "cannot be reunified at this time because the parent's location has been unknown for more than a year," the filing said.
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That compares to a 258% rise in the reunified German DAX when calculated in dollar terms, 258% in MSCI's broadest world stocks index .
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Of the 102: 54 will be reunified by Tuesday; their parents are still in government custody and will be released with their children.
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Reunified children: Before President Trump reversed his decision, government officials had separated over 28503,22019 children from their parents and sent them to shelters.
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According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 2628 children out of 28503 in HHS custody were reunified with their parents.
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As of late Tuesday evening, 38 of 102 children identified for the deadline had been reunified with their parents, according to administration officials.
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"If they're treated well and confident that they'll be reunified with a sponsor in the U.S., they're not incentivized to leave," she said.
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For days now, San Juan, McAllen and other cities in the Rio Grande Valley have been a way station for the reunified families.
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Without an influx of emergency aid, Germans feared that refugees could pour across the border, threatening the stability of their newly reunified country.
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Once Mr Kohl's protégée, the chancellor of his reunified Germany is sometimes dubbed the "leader of the free world" in the Anglo-Saxon media.
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However, the government had no such order to reunify children separated prior to zero tolerance and whether those children were reunified is not known.
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And 22 of the 46 children who have not yet been reunified, were kept separated because of safety concerns regarding the adult, officials reported.
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"Our clients still have not been reunified!" said Beth Krause, an attorney with Legal Aid Society's Immigrant Youth Project, in an email to Reuters.
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In its latest phase, from the 20003s, Germany has reunified, become a normal country again and shed some of the fetters of its past.
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It's easy to forget that it was reunified Germany that initially pushed for NATO enlargement after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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A federal judge has ordered that all children and parents should be reunified and a final status report should be issued by 3 p.m.
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Also due Thursday: information on how many thousands more children aged 5 and older remain to be reunified by his next deadline, July 26.
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The parent chose not to be reunified with their child — as is the case with 130 kids between the ages of five and 17.
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Six Democrats are running in this district, which reunified Democratic-leaning cities in the east and cut out some of Republican-leaning central Pennsylvania.
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More immediately, there is the matter of the 2,300-plus migrant children who need to be reunified with their parents as soon as possible.
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That revelation is a sobering reality for those Germans who believed that liberal democracy was an unshakable moral compass for their modern, reunified country.
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Glossy magazines acclaim Detroit as the next Berlin; never mind that Germany's reunified capital has always floated on a bed of cushy federal subsidies.
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North Vietnam reunified with South Vietnam by force, completing the revolution that gave the communist party so much legitimacy in the eyes of its supporters.
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Other nations in Europe were afraid of the overwhelming power a reunified Germany could muster within Europe, and did what they could to oppose reunification.
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The group also included two separated families that had been reunified but returned to the United States because they faced threats in their home countries.
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Dated September 27, that report said 32 children had been reunified with parents in their countries of origin, and 27 more were in the pipeline.
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They asked that deportations be stalled at least a week after the families were reunified to allow time to ensure no family is being improperly deported.
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The administration disputed that characterization, saying it had reunified all 58 children under 5 who were eligible and that it complied with the judge&aposs order.
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China is fed up with the Kim regime, but fears that if it were to collapse, a reunified Korea would mean American troops on China's border.
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When the Berlin Wall fell and Germany reunified, he worked hard to obtain the support of Gorbachev, whose fellow countrymen were extraordinarily uneasy with this development.
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Having felt like second-class citizens in a reunified Germany since 1990, many Mecklenburgers, rationally or not, feared they would become aliens in their own country.
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In addition, the joint communique that the two leaders issued implicitly accepts that America has dropped its long-standing effort to achieve a reunified, democratic Korea.
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Beckett tells CNN that immigration authorities initially separated the two but they were later reunified and granted parole in 2009 to await adjudication of their case.
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RELATED: Trump admin says 500 families reunified, but thousands unaccounted for Warren will also stop in Henderson, near Las Vegas, for an evening event with Sen.
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Currently, all kids younger than 5 must be returned to their parents by July 10 and families with older children must be reunified by July 26.
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As in "Crying in H-Mart," in Crazy Rich Asians the process of being reunified with cultural commodities is only a balm for a deep melancholia.
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"If Korea reunified, the first thing I would do is to take my mother's hand and visit her hometown," he said during last year's election campaign.
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I contacted a woman who seems to spend every waking hour deploying volunteers to provide transportation, accommodation and legal assistance for separated, and now reunified, families.
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In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Dana Sabraw temporarily stopped the administration from deporting reunified families until it's determined what rights to asylum the children have.
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While Thursday's victory in court means another chance at asylum for hundreds of reunified children, the government is granting asylum to fewer and fewer undocumented immigrants.
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Beijing considers Taiwan as part of its territory that must one day be reunified with the mainland and should have no right to participate in international diplomacy.
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And he is especially sensitive to the prospect of a reunified Korea backed by the United States when China is trying to assert its dominance in Asia.
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Fabian previously told Sabraw that families reunited Tuesday would be released from custody, but Stewart's comments signaled that the administration plans to hold reunified families going forward.
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Leticia was nearly deported without her daughter until an attorney filed an emergency petition to keep her in the country until she was reunified with her daughter.
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Mr Saleh, 75, was a military man who took control of North Yemen in 1978, then led the civil war that reunified the divided country in 1994.
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"If Trump navigates too well, China could be confronted with a stronger, larger and ultimately reunified Korea as a regional, democratic bulwark and U.S. ally," Kempe warned.
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"There's an effort to place them as closely as possible to where they're going to be eventually reunified with a sponsor or a family member," he said.
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One child "cannot be reunified at this time because the parent's location has been unknown for more than a year," DOJ lawyers said in a court filing.
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Bode has seen parents reunified with their children after spending more than a year apart in different parts of the northeast, so a happy ending is possible.
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Many older people in the area came from the North as war refugees, settling near the border in hopes of returning quickly once the Koreas were reunified.
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Helmut Kohl reunified Germany after 45 years of Cold War antagonism, earning plaudits from Moscow and Washington for his handling of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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When they do, the United States should treat them as children and offer them safe and appropriate care until they can be reunified with a family member.
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"For as long as I can remember, it has been the dream of the Zainichi people to see the North and South reunified," Mr. Oshima said recently.
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While Trump has announced an end to the policy that separates children from parents, no plans on when or how families would be reunified have been announced yet .
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No children have yet been reunified with parents in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but that will soon happen to meet the court deadline, Azar said.
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There is no solid data on how many asylum-seekers still want to be reunified in Europe, but increasingly, Syrians are given "subsidiary protection" rather than refugee status.
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After being reunified that day in El Paso, parents and children were loaded on a bus and asked to sign papers agreeing to be deported with their children.
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About 2,650 children were separated from a parent under the "zero tolerance" policy, and last month the government said it had reunified or released 2,251 of the children.
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The new steps include not DNA-testing most of the parents and not background-checking every adult who will be living in the home with the reunified family.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration said Friday that it had reunified approximately 500 families separated at the border but the status of thousands more separated families remained unclear.
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It is now starting to turn attention to the thousands of children aged 5 to 17 that need to be reunified with their parents in another two weeks.
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Right. Can you tell me a little bit about the types of places that these children are being held before they're reunified with a family member or guardian?
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HHS said 92 percent of all children who had been separated have already been reunified or discharged to sponsors — relatives or family friends who applied to sponsor them.
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"If Red Velvet goes to North Korea to perform at a concert, half of its people would cheer and would want to be reunified," wrote one Twitter user.
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Four months after the Trump administration ended the practice of separating families at the US-Mexico border, there are still scores of parents and kids to be reunified.
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After reunification, the opera house had to adjust to the pressures of competition in a reunified Berlin, in which it was suddenly one of several major musical institutions.
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Right now, the only thing saving them is a court order from a California judge preventing the government from deporting reunified families while children's asylum claims are adjudicated.
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Two children cannot be reunified with their parents because one of those kids' parents has a communicable disease, and the other does not have a suitable living condition.
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Three kids under 5 may be able to see their parents again at some point because the government cited temporary situations as the reasons they can't be reunified now.
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The constitutional model for a reunified state is a "bi-zonal, bi-communal federation", based on deep decentralisation to the two communities and power-sharing arrangements at the centre.
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Member states and the European Commission have a responsibility to financially assist refugees attempting to be reunified with their families, according guidelines from the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.
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Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) scored 27.6 percent — well below their national result of nearly 33 percent — in the five states that became part of a reunified Germany in 1990.
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Some parents may have more than one child, so the new number of 17,2378 children doesn't actually tell us whether all 43,24 eligible parents were reunified with their kids.
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Some parents may have more than one child, so the new number of 1,442 children doesn't actually tell us whether all 1,637 eligible parents were reunified with their kids.
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ORR and ICE gave no further details on why seven children cannot be reunified with their parents other than to say the parents had criminal histories of some sort.
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"We've seen a large number of families that have been reunified who are coming to us with very low Spanish fluency, to the point of almost none," Levy said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All migrant children under age 5 who are eligible will be reunified with their parents by early on Thursday morning, a Trump administration official said on Wednesday.
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DOJ attorney Sarah Fabian said she would have to confer with officials, but noted space to house the families cleared for deportation once they're reunified could be a problem.
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I am furious&horrified after immigration conference call -- virtually no separated children have been reunified; no system, no plan, no path to assure reunification; no answers to key questions.
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The ACLU has filed a number of affidavits to the court alleging numerous parents did not know what they had signed when they relinquished their right to be reunified.
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The filing pointed to a "significant" number of parents of the 559 children in custody who indicated no desire to be reunified with their children at the present time.
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Post grunge and its shoutier cousin nu metal reunified the two schools of rock, allowing an unholy civil union that ranged between sappy bro spluttering and cornball WWE exhibitionism.
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On June 26, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California ordered the more than 2,500 families separated by the administration to be reunified by July 26.
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But the sheer number of artists reunified in the space refocused the attention on how they related to one another and how they interpreted their role in the movement.
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On a recent Wednesday, he was doing the rounds of unaccompanied children in his area whose cases were still in progress, and checking on families who had been reunified.
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Democrats, who reunified in April after a seven-year schism involving eight breakaway members, who formed the Independent Democratic Conference, are hoping to win outright control of the Senate.
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"Some of the women we have encountered in detention at the border have reported facing pressure to deport voluntarily in order to be reunified with their children," she said.
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Scotland's nationalists said the plan would galvanize them to seek another referendum on Scottish independence, while Irish nationalists quietly welcomed it as one more step toward a reunified Ireland.
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According to North Korea, the Kim family's revolution will not end until North and South Korea are reunified and freed forever from the "imperialist" influence of the United States.
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The Pages took custody of Lexi with full knowledge of the act and the intention of caring for the young girl until she could be reunified with her biological father.
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Are we saying now you can't be reunified with your own child if you don't share the religious preference of this particular vendor who runs these detainment centers for children?
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When a professor asked his students during a recent lecture whether they thought North and South Korea would be reunified during their lifetime, only the foreigners put up their hands.
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In court, the government raised the possibility that his earlier order to pause deportations of reunified families for at least a week to allow for further arguments could cause problems.
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The Communist Party may be wary about the prospect of a reunified Korea — If the North and South were to unify, the new state could end up under U.S. influence.
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"There's eight children here in Michigan that are under the age of 5 that need to be reunified by today, according to the court order," Valdes said early Tuesday afternoon.
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That is the highest since Germany reunified in 13, and creates a fiscal buffer at a time when authorities are working to house and integrate hundreds of thousands of refugees.
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It's also not clear the status of these and the other 500 kids reunified with their families — whether they will be, or have already been, deported, or remain in detention together.
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They taught us the valuable lesson of preserving and passing on this historic site—where invading Americans knelt before the people in surrender—to the next generation, in a reunified homeland.
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Under the policy, the US has official relations with China, rather than Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province that will eventually be reunified with the mainland, according to the BBC.
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Since US District Judge Dana Sabraw's June ruling in the American Civil Liberties Union's family separations case, officials have reunified more than 2,100 children with their parents, according to court records.
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Somewhere close to half of the deported parents have come to conclusions about whether to be reunited, with the choice about 2-to-1 in favor of not being reunified vs.
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A months-long, court-ordered process has been underway to track down deported parents, determine whether they wanted to be reunified with their children and reunite those families who requested it.
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Ms. Merkel, a pastor's daughter and trained scientist who had grown up in Communist East Germany, was not only the first woman but the first easterner to lead her reunified country.
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A deal would ease the troubled EU-Turkey relationship, open up energy potential in Cypriot waters, and—because Turkey would recognise the reunified state—ease co-operation between the EU and NATO.
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The book acknowledges that Chiang helped China become a founding member of the UN. "Until the time of his death, he cherished the sacred ideal that China could be reunified," it says.
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But it wants to ensure the United States doesn't replace China as North Korea's ally of choice, nor does it want a reunified Korea, indebted to Washington, sitting just across its border.
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The ACLU asked for the government to provide a daily report of reunified families to the court starting next week and for additional details to prevent the government from missing future deadlines.
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Trump has openly attacked Germany — he famously said that country is "very bad" for the United States — and the U.S.-Germany relationship is in its worst state since Germany reunified in 1990.
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It is vital for prospective foster parents to understand that — except in cases where parents' rights have already been terminated — children in foster care are intended to be reunified with their parents.
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But there are still roughly 1,900 who need to be reunified or ruled ineligible by next Thursday, and a government attorney warned "some complicated issues" will pop up in the coming week.
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As of December, the department had identified 2,737 children who were separated from their parents under the policy and required to be reunified by a federal court order issued in June 2018.
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Noah's parents have 30 days to appeal the decision, should they want to, or they may set up a case plan to work toward being reunified with their son, Moore told PEOPLE.
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As of the first deadline, July 2914, the government said it had reunified 442 children under 0121 separated from a parent at the border, out of 102 children originally identified as potentially eligible.
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Another 22018 parents have been labeled ineligible, including 127 parents in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, who officials say signed a form indicating they do not want to be reunified with their kids.
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Another 914 parents have been labeled ineligible, including 127 parents in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, who officials say signed a form indicating they do not want to be reunified with their kids.
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A woman who had dreamed of travelling to the West, perhaps to America with special permission on her retirement, would soon after plunge into the reunified republic's politics and end up leading it.
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The ACLU "would then be responsible for providing Defendants with a final, unequivocal, written confirmation of whether each possible class member wants to be reunified with his or her child," the filing said.
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Why it matters: The Trump administration has reunified 1,442 of the original 2,551 migrant children between the ages of 5 and 17 with their parents by the court-ordered deadline in late July.
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About 2,800 children have been reunified with their families or situated according to their parents' wishes, said Lee Gelernt, who challenged the policy in court on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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The problem is less pronounced in the less affluent eastern part of the country, where much of the infrastructure was upgraded or replaced after East and West Germany were reunified in the 1990s.
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As a woman who has fostered 3 babies (who all were reunified with family) and is now 7 months pregnant with my first biological child, I think motherhood is what you make it.
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In their complaint, lawyers with Hogan Lovells said the government was seeking to swiftly deport reunified families and deprive their children from pursuing separate asylum claims to which they are entitled by law.
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Of that group, 1,012 parents in ICE custody had been reunified with a child, and a Justice Department lawyer told the judge that they expected to reunify several hundred more by the court's deadline.
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"My impression has been that in general many are not being reunited after they do their time served ... that they are in fact not reunified while awaiting their asylum claim," Merkley told BuzzFeed News.
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Some migrant parents forcibly separated from their children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) say that officials with the agency "intimidated" them into signing forms relinquishing their rights to be reunified with their children.
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It disputes territory with India, insists that Taiwan must one day be "reunified" with the mainland and in the East and South China Seas aggressively asserts its claims to contested reefs, rocks and islets.
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Roughly half of the children under 5 years old will be back with their moms and dads by the deadline, but the Trump administration is still not sure when the rest will be reunified.
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So is his diagnosis — that the European leaders who implemented the euro in the 1990s did so largely for political reasons (getting rid of the mark was France's price for accepting a reunified Germany).
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North and South Korea just announced plans for their athletes to train together in advance of the Winter Olympics and enter the opening ceremonies as one team, under the flag of a reunified Korea.
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A new museum crammed with jewels of non-Western art and culture in the center of the reunified capital seemed a good idea: It would show Germany as confident and open to the world.
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The latest on reunification efforts The reunification process for the child who remains in custody could still take time, officials said Friday, as they're awaiting word on whether the parent wants to be reunified.
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The group got a mission when German scientists offered it an old accelerator known as Bessy, that had served as a light source in Berlin and was being replaced after the country was reunified.
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The new immigration laws opened the doors to "highly skilled" workers who obtained employment visas as well as academics, artists, refugees, and relatives of current residents who sought to be reunified with their families.
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But that ask glosses over the fact that more children are in immigration custody because over the last several years the government has slowed down the rate at which children are reunified with their families.
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Nearly all of the more than 2,800 separated children identified in the class-action before Sabraw have either been reunified with a parent or released to a sponsor, according to the government's latest status report.
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"[One] child cannot be reunified at this time because the parent's location has been unknown for more than a year ... and records show the parent and child might be U.S. citizens," the court filing states.
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More urban than the rest and bestriding major transport routes, Saxony and Thuringia had pre-communist industrial traditions—trade fairs in Leipzig, optical technology in Jena, aviation in Dresden—that could succeed in reunified Germany.
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The demolition of the wall was an internationally celebrated event, and remnants of the structure still stand in reunified Berlin today, as a reminder of hardship and futility of that attempt to limit the populace.
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"I think they would rather deal with the current North Korean regime with nuclear weapons than they would with a basically reunified Korea that places a US treaty ally at the Chinese doorstep," he said.
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Parents have also described the distress of not knowing where their children are, and attorneys who represent them describe some cases where there is perceived pressure to agree to deportation in order to be reunified.
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The Trump administration has reunified 210,2463 of the original 217,551 migrant children between the ages of five and 17 with their parents by the court-ordered deadline of today, according to the latest court filing.
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But there are 2,551 children 5 and older in government custody likely to have been separated from their parents at the border who must be reunified by next Thursday's deadline, if they are found eligible.
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Aware that Germany could be reunified only with the support of both the United States and the Soviet Union, Mr. Kohl formed close ties with the elder President George Bush and President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
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Almost 26 years after he left office a one-term president, George H.W. Bush was remembered today as a great man — with the chancellor of reunified Germany and the president of free Poland in the pews.
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In that case, US District Judge Dolly Gee rejected the Trump administration's motion to change the terms of what's known as the Flores agreement to allow reunified children to indefinitely stay in detention with a parent.
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"To consistently call and say your family member who you thought you were going to be reunified with isn't coming, it's difficult," said Nate Bult, vice president of public and government affairs at Bethany Christian Services.
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EL PASO, Texas – The Trump administration has identified 2,1303 children ages 5 and up who may be eligible to be reunified with their parents under an order by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw of San Diego.
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Both sides were due in court Friday, when the judge was going to decide whether to ban deportations of families for seven days after they are reunified so that parents have time to discuss their options.
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His life spanned five states of Germany: the Weimar Republic, Hitler's Nazi Reich, the prosperous, guilt-ridden Federal Republic, the harshly run communist East, and finally the reunified country, which bestowed on him its highest honours.
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Since then, the administration has provided regular reports to the court on the reunification status of the children and parents, including some parents who were deported but ultimately elected not to be reunified with their children.
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Four other children were reunified with family members before the Tuesday deadline, including two who were released to parents in the U.S., one to an adult sibling, and one to a parent who was being deported.
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In a court filing this week, the A.C.L.U. said that "evidence is overwhelming that parents have signed forms they did not understand," including papers they thought stated that they wished to be reunified with their children.
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A parallel effort is underway to deport some of the migrants: 11 reunified families will be returned to their home country, Guatemala, on Tuesday, the country's vice minister of foreign relations said at a news conference.
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At least some of those parents were deported before a June 2018 court order that required the government to better document parents' choices to elect or waive their right to be reunified with their children beforehand.
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One lawyer said that a mother from Honduras with minimal literacy in Spanish was given a form and told to sign it in order to be reunified, only to learn later that she had actually waived reunification.
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Attorneys don't go into details about how many people might be in this situation, but the implication is that there may be more families not included in the government's tally that the ACLU believes should be reunified.
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The government also said the ACLU should be responsible for ensuring that each deported parent has an opportunity to speak with a lawyer to make sure they really wanted to give up the opportunity to be reunified.
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It's not clear from this statement whether the reunified children were in HHS custody, as Customs and Border Protection hands children off to HHS and parents off to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement after they're finished being prosecuted.
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And each time it happens, I think of the families who can't be reunified, brought together by police, hospital workers and county bureaucrats into some generic venue — a convention center, a business hotel — and given the news.
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San Juan and McAllen have become hubs for the newly reunified families largely because of its location near the Port Isabel detention center, an ICE facility where many of the families in South Texas have been reunited.
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From 1992, Mr. Castorf deployed his radical, immersive and demanding theatrical approach at the Volksbühne as a counterweight to what he and many other East Germans saw as the conformity and false optimism of the reunified Germany.
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Its National Assembly passed several unanimous resolutions to that effect: in 1951 proposing to continue fighting for an "independent and unified country" and in April 1953 opposing any armistice that didn't also provide for a reunified Korea.
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Gelernt also described the heart-wrenching process that is resulting in nearly two-thirds of parents deciding to not be reunified but to allow their children to stay in the US to keep seeking protections to stay.
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China could act decisively, as it has the unique capability to do, to overthrow Kim Jong Un's regime, allowing the Korean peninsula to be reunified or installing a new regime and, with America, jointly denuclearizing the North.
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Recognizing this need, new funding measures provide needed financial support and increased oversight for the Office of Refugee Resettlement's program that provides care and custody of unaccompanied children until they can be reunified with a family member.
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The Chinese Communist Party recently announced, after a major meeting, that China will "fully respect" Taiwan's way of life and social system once it has been "peacefully reunified" — as long as national security is protected, Reuters reported.
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"I think our country should reunified soon and go out into the world," said attendee Kim Kyong Hee, speaking to Reuters in a conversation monitored by the North Korean government officials who escort media at all times.
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So far, none of those kids separated from their parents under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigration have been reunified with their parents in immigration detention, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday.
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ICE official Matthew Albence told reporters on Thursday that 223 families were being held in ICE detention centers; he did not say how many reunified families had been deported and how many were released into the United States.
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Zubaidi announced the council's creation in a televised address on Thursday in front of the flag of the former nation of South Yemen, whose forces were defeated by the north in 1994 and brought into a reunified country.
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As of late Tuesday afternoon, four children of 102 identified for the deadline had already been reunified with their parents, and another 34 were expected to be reunited by the end of the day, according to the administration.
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The government maintains that it could not or should not have reunited all of those children, including hundreds of parents who were apparently deported and others who the government says declined to be reunified or have criminal histories.
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Of those, 11 got an abortion, five rescinded their requests and two were reunified with sponsors, who can be a family member or family friend in the United States, according to court filing by the government in November.
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The big events of recent years include reunified Germany's Hanover Expo in 2628, rising China's Shanghai Expo in 28503 and new-kid Kazakhstan's Astana Expo in 22019, just as Chicago did back in 1893 or Seattle in 1962.
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Another 378 children were either reunited with a parent who was already released in the United States, placed with a sponsor, reunified with a parent in custody earlier in the process, or turned 18 and were no longer minors.
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Earlier this week, Sabraw temporarily blocked the administration from deporting reunified families while he considers a request by the American Civil Liberties Union for a longer-term order restricting the government from immediately removing reunited families from the country.
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On-off peace talks over the years have repeatedly foundered over the property rights of thousands of internally displaced people, different interpretations of how close a new reunion will be, and the influence of Turkey over any reunified Cyprus.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has reunified 57 children under the age of five with their parents this month, but there are 46 more in government custody who have not been reunited yet due to ineligibility.
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But according to a Trump administration official, authorities anticipated that as of early Thursday morning, they will have reunified all children under age 5 who are eligible under the court order for reunification with parents in the United States.
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" The commissioner of the A.C.S., David Hansell, said that the agency tries to "safely reunify families when appropriate" because "all of the research shows that children are most likely to thrive when they can be reunified with their parents.
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Since then, the administration has provided regular reports to the court on the reunification status of children and parents whom the government separated, including some parents who were deported but ultimately elected not to be reunified with their children.
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The government said in Tuesday's filing that of 51 children with a parent in ICE detention, they expected 53 to be reunified Tuesday, but 17 might need a little more time — the parental verification or background checks were still pending.
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Despite losing support, Merkel, Europe's longest serving leader, will join the late Helmut Kohl, her mentor who reunified Germany, and Konrad Adenauer, who led Germany's rebirth after World War Two, as the only post-war chancellors to win four national elections.
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China will not pressure North Korea to the point of regime collapse because Beijing has already decided it would rather have a nuclear armed and semi-hostile North Korea on its border than a reunified Korea, allied with the United States.
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"It is our position that all of those families need to be considered as families that should be reunified and that the government should reunify them," said Michelle Brané, director of migrant rights and justice for the Women's Refugee Commission.
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Consequently, once the Union won the war, officials in London were worried that a reunified United States, now firmly under Republican Party political control and in possession of an enormous army, would seek revenge by launching a new round of expansionism.
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A judge has said that all of those children must be reunified with their families by July 26, but administration officials during a conference call with reporters Tuesday refused to say if they expected to be able to meet that deadline.
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The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the lawsuit that's now forcing the government to reunify families, says the form should have been given to parents only after they were reunified with their kids so that families could decide together.
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Thousands more immigrant children were separated from their parents under the Trump administration than previously reported and whether they were reunified is unknown, according to a report by the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services released on Thursday.
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The Trump administration said it had reunified more than 1,400 immigrant families by a judge's Thursday deadline — but hundreds of children remain separated from their parents, the government does not know where many parents are, and it has deemed others ineligible for reunification.
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" Inslee made the comments just days after he and five other Democratic governors sent a letter to Trump officials, saying they were "deeply concerned that wholly inadequate resources and procedures are in place to ensure children and parents are reunified safely and securely.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China will "fully respect" Taiwan's way of life and social system once it has been "peacefully reunified", as long as national security is protected, the ruling Communist Party said on Tuesday, in another overture to the self-ruled island.
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"I'm not anti-government, but something has to change so human beings get to enjoy a little bit of the wealth," Sebastian Keller, who grew up in east Germany and was 8 years old when the country was reunified, told the Washington Post.
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Roughly 200 parents have criminal records or declined to be reunified, more than 200 have been released, more than 460 are believed to not be in the country and another roughly 260 require further investigation, according to the government as of Tuesday.
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A little more than 200 parents have criminal records or declined to be reunified, more than 200 have been released, more than 460 are believed to not be in the country and another roughly 260 require further investigation, according to the government.
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"They showed me a form and told me that I needed to sign the form so that I could be reunified with my son," said a Honduran asylum seeker identified only as H.G.A. in testimony filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego.
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" The result, the inspector general said, was that "without a reliable account of all family relationships, we cannot confirm that DHS has identified all family separations, and therefore, we cannot determine whether DHS and [Health and Human Services] have reunified these families.
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As part of that process, the administration has provided regular reports to the court on the reunification status of children and parents who the government separated, including some parents who were deported but ultimately elected not to be reunified with their children.
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China translates the word "tong yi" as "reunification", but it can also be translated as "unification", a term in English preferred by supporters of Taiwan independence who point out the Communist government has never ruled Taiwan and so it cannot be "reunified".
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Another 378 children were either reunited with a parent who already had been released in the United States, placed with a sponsor, reunified with a parent in custody earlier in the process, or had turned 18 and were no longer minors, according to the documents.
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On Xi's political calendar, he has upcoming reasons for avoiding a calamity, including a triumphant celebration, set for October 1st, to mark the seventieth anniversary of the People's Republic, and, in January, elections in Taiwan, another territory that China would like to see reunified.
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Many of the most affecting stories to come out of family separation crisis involve mothers, be it stories involving small children crying for their mother, or a mother devastated by a child who—when reunified after a separation—didn't seem to know who she was.
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Top this off with the Moon administration's advocacy for constitutional reform, which could align the South Korean constitution with the North's objectives and potentially move the capital away from Seoul — perhaps even open the possibility of designating Pyongyang as the capital under a reunified Korea.
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For kids of deported parents, there are two ways that could happen, advocates say: • Kids whose parents were already deported could end up signing voluntary departure orders to rejoin their families, if their parents are located and tell officials they want to be reunified.
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It's what made Berlin, the reunified nation's capital, a city of memorials, where the wordy, abstract and sculptural Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe takes up central real estate alongside memorials dedicated to the Sinti and the Roma and homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis.
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In the early 1990s, as Germany reunified and peace returned to much of Europe, Mr. Binder went back to the Balkans to cover wars that engulfed the former Yugoslavia in massacres, mass rapes and genocide, killing 100,222 people and driving millions from their homes.
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That youngest group of kids is just a small fraction of the nearly 3,000 migrant children ordered to be reunified with their parents in custody under a judicial order, after being separated as the result of a new Trump administration policy implemented in May.
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Washington (CNN)There are still roughly 700 children who were separated from their parents at the border and have not been reunified with those parents by the Trump administration, as new court filings reveal the slow pace of reuniting the trickiest family separation cases.
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The administration says it has reunified 23,22016 families where a parent was still in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — but hundreds of children remain separated from their parents, the government does not know where many parents are, and it has deemed others ineligible for reunification.
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" While the statement did not address some of the specific concerns raised by attorneys and witnesses at PIDC, it added that "on average" most children brought to PIDC for transfer to DHS custody by HHS are "reunified with their parents within a few hours of their arrival.
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"This number represents the total possible cohort of minors who could potentially be subject to the court order, and, based on past experience, includes a significant number of minors who cannot or should not be reunified with the adults in question," said HHS spokeswoman Evelyn Stauffer.
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The US Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services have said they have reunified about 538 unauthorized immigrant children who have been separated from their families by the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" prosecution policy — out of a total of 2,300 children separated from their parents.
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Most recently, the administration appears to be targeting another child protection measure, called "special immigrant juvenile status," which allows children to apply for a green card if a juvenile court finds they cannot be reunified with a parent because they have been abused, neglected or abandoned.
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Fabian said the government had reunified several families with children under 5 without completing the process for verifying that the adults were, in fact, a parent, saying they understood Sabraw at a previous hearing to have ordered reunifications to occur by the deadline even if that relationship wasn't verified.
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Washington (CNN)Roughly half of the children under 0003 years old who were separated from their parents at the border will be back with their moms and dads by a court-imposed deadline Tuesday, but the Trump administration is still not sure when the rest will be reunified.
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What they're saying: Immigrant activists have already criticized the government's process in deciding which children should be reunified: What's next: DHS will continue to attempt to reunify families who are eligible, and HHS will continue to search for suitable sponsors to care for the migrant children in its custody.
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More significant drivers of the migration were violence, poverty, gang presence, economic opportunity and the desire to be reunified with family, and "it remains unclear if, and how, specific immigration policies have motivated children to migrate to the United States," according to a 2014 Congressional Research Service report.
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The inspector general concluded that "without a reliable account of all family relationships, we cannot confirm that DHS has identified all family separations, and therefore, we cannot determine whether DHS and [Health and Human Services] have reunified these families," according to the report, first published by BuzzFeed News.
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But most of the kids from separated families who remain in custody -- more than 75% -- will not be reunified with their parents either because the parents have declined reunification or because officials have deemed reunification cannot occur since the parent is unfit or poses a danger, the filing said.
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The report identified a spike in family separations beginning in the summer of 2017, and found that HHS officials failed to make records of what happened to children after they were released from Office of Refugee Resettlement custody, including whether they were reunified with parents or non-relative sponsors.
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" A lawyer for the law firm Jones Day working on behalf of families seeking asylum told the New York Times that "some of the women we have encountered in detention at the border have reported facing pressure to deport voluntarily in order to be reunified with their children.
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In 1974 the United States recognized the German Democratic Republic and opened an embassy in East Berlin, while continuing to regard the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) as the sole legitimate successor government of the historical German state and of a future reunified Germany, which actually occurred 16 years later.
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The more the European press assailed and censured Handke, the more defiant he became, as if in a perverse attempt to remind Austria and a reunified Germany of the type of radical, independent, infuriating writer they had once relied upon to de-Nazify their culture and re-establish civic life.
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Though the administration backed away from its "zero tolerance" immigration enforcement policy after prolonged outcry, this level of casual cruelty is not so easily cleaned up: It lingers both in the children who have yet to see their parents again and in the lasting trauma done to even reunified families.
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Even with all of this, it would still be tough to convince China to risk the collapse of its North Korean ally unless China comes to believe for its own reasons that it would be better off with a Korea reunified under South Korean law than it would be with the current situation.
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In the joint filing, attorneys raised several issues that will likely come up in court on Tuesday: Government attorneys responded to concerns raised by plaintiffs' attorneys that they aren't doing enough to swiftly implement a settlement agreement that dictates the next steps for parents and children in reunified families who are seeking asylum.
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We still have zero tolerance policy in place so you know perhaps now we&aposre trying to obviously fix the problem, it&aposs shameful because you know what, what&aposs going to happen now, Dana, is that a lot of these parents who are supposed to be reunified with these children are probably already deported.
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"The Border Patrol will continue to refer for prosecution adults who cross the border illegally," the statement said, adding that any children still in Border Patrol custody -- likely a small number as Border Patrol has been quickly transferring children to HHS when separated from parents -- would be reunified with their parents after any criminal proceedings.
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"In fact, [HHS] Deputy Secretary [Eric] Hargan's response to our June 26 letter demonstrated that the Administration was ill-equipped to answer the basic, factual questions posed in our letter, which resulted in the failure of many of these families being reunified and more than 400 parents deported without their children," the lawmakers wrote.
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But Beijing would be intervening to protect its own interests, not those of the US. A war between North and South Korea would almost certainly end with the creation of a reunified country led by the pro-US government in Seoul; China would want to make sure it wasn't left out in the cold.
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In a radical reinterpretation of the 2002 Homeland Security Act, a September memo by the Executive Office for Immigration Review told judges they had the right to strip away the protections if a minor turned 18 during court proceedings that can drag on for years or was reunified with a parent in the United States.
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Asked about how families will be reunified on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said there was a plan that seemed to refer to the current procedure placing the responsibility on the parents to track their children down in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services by calling government hotlines.
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Helmut Kohl, a towering postwar figure who reunified Germany after 45 years of Cold War antagonism, propelled a deeply held vision of Europe's integration and earned plaudits from Moscow and Washington for his deft handling of the fall of the Berlin Wall, died on Friday at his home in Ludwigshafen, Germany, the Rhine port city where he was born.
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Department of Homeland Security officials lacked the technology to track all the immigrant families who were separated at the southern border, so a government watchdog can't confirm if there were more than reported and if they have been reunified, according to an unpublished report from the agency's Office of Inspector General and obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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Parents were considered eligible if they were verified as a parent and not found to be unfit or a danger to the child; in Thursday's report, the government identified 67 parents who would not be reunified because of a "red flag" that came up in a review of their background, although the ACLU has contested what type of criminal background should be disqualifying.
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"Plaintiffs' counsel should ascertain whether each possible class member wishes to be reunified with his or her child, or whether he or she wishes to waive reunification," the filing continued, adding that the ACLU would be "responsible for ensuring" the parents have the opportunity to get legal advice and consult with their children, with the government helping to "facilitate" those family communications.
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But while China is exasperated about North Korea and has stepped up its efforts to implement sanctions over recent months, Beijing has shown no interest in pushing North Korea to the point of collapse because Beijing would still rather have even a hostile and nuclear-armed North Korea on its border than a reunified Korea allied with the United States.
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Despite repeated requests for the past month and a half from Miguel's attorney to the US Department of Homeland Security that it facilitate the removal, the government has refused to expedite the process, the attorney told me—flaunting a federal judge's order that all families separated under President Trump's "zero tolerance policy" for border crossers be reunified by late July.
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"Many of the parents were told that signing a document relinquishing their rights or their request for asylum was the only or the fastest way to be reunified with their children," said Michelle Brané, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice Program at the Women's Refugee Commission, and a member of the steering committee set up by the ACLU to track down deported parents.
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Either a parent can keep fighting for asylum and accept that he may not be able to see his children for the months or years his case might take — or he can give up, waive both his own rights and the rights of his child, and agree to be reunified with his child en route to the country both of them fled to begin with.
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But as the regime in the North crumbled after Jong Un's death, several truths dawned on China's leaders: that a reunified Korea would never, out of its own self-interest, be hostile towards it; that with North Korea's nuclear sites scattered and the number of warheads unknown, it had to co-operate with America to eliminate them; and that to back one faction of the fractured regime would lead to instability on its borders, risking a flood of refugees.
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Of the children who remain in custody, there are seven who are in the pipeline to reunite with their parents in their countries of origin, according to the court documents, and six who the US government is working to discharge to parents in the US. But 146 of the kids from separated families who remain in custody -- more than 85% -- will not be reunified with their parents either because the parents have declined reunification or because officials have deemed it cannot occur because the parents are unfit or pose a danger, officials said.
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In her poem, "East Berlin 1989," Lorde beat back against the Cold War triumphalism of the times with a dark vision of discord and racial violence, anticipating the surge of far-right hostility that would emerge in the reunified former East: "Already my blood shrieks / through the East Berlin streets / misplaced hatreds / volcanic tallies rung upon cement / Afro-German woman stomped to death / by skinheads in Alexanderplatz…" At a time when the far right is once again on the rise in Europe — and in eastern Germany in particular — the poem feels as trenchant as ever.
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In addition to our three adopted children, there was the premature baby born with opiate addiction who was with us for seven weeks; the 11-year-old boy discovered living with a pedophile in a homeless camp in the woods behind a grocery store who was with us for eight days; two brothers who, after spending two years in foster care, had recently been reunified with their mom, only to be returned to foster care a few weeks later; and more than half a dozen other children who have come and gone, each with his or her own unique, yet somehow universal, story.
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