In a rare retreat last week, President Trump signed an executive order to end the controversial practice of separating children from parents illegally crossing into the United States. By then, though, more than 2,000 migrant children were in the hands of the federal government, which in May began enforcing the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy requiring federal officers to hold all adults who cross the border illegally and charge them with misdemeanors.
A confusing web of agencies has been responsible for processing, splitting up and detaining families. Here is the breakdown…..