Multiple media outlets reported this week that the federal government remains unable to find the parents of more than 500 children who were separated from their families.
The Trump campaign’s communications director asserted on Friday that the reason some migrant families separated by the Trump administration at the U.S. border have not been reunited is because the parents do not want their children back.
Multiple media outlets reported this week that the federal government remains unable to find the parents of more than 500 children who were separated from their families after crossing the U.S. border. Speaking on CNN’s “New Day, Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said that while “it’s a regrettable situation, certainly,” the work of unifying these families with their loved ones is more complicated for Department of Homeland Security officials than has been portrayed publicly.
“The fact is it’s not as simple as you make it sound or Joe Biden made it sound on the stage last night to locate the parents who are in other countries,” Murtaugh said. “And when they do locate them, it has been DHS’ experience that in many cases the parents do not want the children returned.”
Murtaugh also repeated that claim later in the interview with host John Berman.
“You have to locate the parents and when they are located in these other countries in many cases, John, the parents do not want the children sent back to them in their home countries.”
Murtaugh did not provide any evidence that parents are rejecting having their children returned to them once U.S. officials contact them. Spokespeople for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return requests for further details on Murtaugh’s claims.
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The Trump campaign’s communications director asserted today that the reason some migrant families separated by the Trump administration at the U.S. border have not been reunited is because the parents do not want their children back https://t.co/zkwVsdSqj0
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