{"id":602222,"date":"2018-07-11T07:46:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=602222"},"modified":"2018-07-11T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:51:02","slug":"immigrant-fathers-reunited-with-their-young-children-in-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/07\/immigrant-fathers-reunited-with-their-young-children-in-el-paso\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant fathers reunited with their young children in El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_597022\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-597022\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Families_Belong_Together_Rally_RZ_TT-771x517.jpg\" alt=\"Austin rally\" width=\"771\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Families_Belong_Together_Rally_RZ_TT-771x517.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Families_Belong_Together_Rally_RZ_TT-336x225.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Families_Belong_Together_Rally_RZ_TT-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Families_Belong_Together_Rally_RZ_TT-1170x784.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Families_Belong_Together_Rally_RZ_TT.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Rachel Zein \/ for The Texas Tribune<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters call for immigrant families to be kept together at a rally in Austin on June 14.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>EL PASO, Texas \u2014 Three children who were separated from their undocumented immigrant parents under the Trump administration&#8217;s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy were reunited with their fathers late Tuesday, a shelter director in this border city announced.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Garcia, the director of downtown El Paso\u2019s Annunciation House, said he received a call just after 6 p.m. local time alerting him that three fathers and their children, all four years old or younger, were scheduled to be reunited and delivered to his shelter.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article originally appeared in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/07\/10\/immigrant-fathers-are-reunited-their-young-children-el-paso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Texas Tribune<\/a>,\u00a0a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans and engages with them about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThey also had no idea this was coming \u2014 they were told, &#8216;Get your things,&#8217;\u201d Garcia told reporters late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The reunions came hours before a court-ordered mandate for the Trump administration to reunite parents with children five years old or younger who had been separated under the policy.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said he didn\u2019t know how much the deadline played into Tuesday night\u2019s reunions but said he was told federal officials expressed a sense of urgency to complete the task by Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, we want the reunification to happen today,\u201d he quoted government officials as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The fathers were all being held in a detention facility in nearby Otero County, New Mexico, and were reunited with their children at an undisclosed government location.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said none of the parents were required to provide DNA samples to prove they were the children\u2019s parents and that they met all the\u00a0federal government&#8217;s\u00a0requirements to prove their relationship, although he couldn\u2019t say exactly what those requirements were.<script async src=\"https:\/\/cdn.texastribune.org\/pixel\/dot.min.29c708b3d0da5d17a725.js\" integrity=\"sha384-8Xwf\/TlQnmHiajg1t3dn8w4qlF1rmV33o5NAQVXYu0T2q3rHV5579zrSmRjh+XnM\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" data-tt-canonical=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/07\/10\/immigrant-fathers-are-reunited-their-young-children-el-paso\/\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fathers were all being held in a detention facility in nearby Otero County, New 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