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Lawyers for migrants say U.S. officials slowed family reunifications

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June 8, 2022 at 12:07 a.m. EDT
A boy and his father from Honduras are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018, near Mission, Tex. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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Weeks into the Trump administration’s family-separation policy, immigration officials fired off emails saying something was awry.

The children were being reunited too quickly with their parents, an official wrote on a Friday night in late May 2018.

“What a fiasco,” Tae Johnson, an official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), wrote to other officials at 8:29 p.m. that Memorial Day weekend. Johnson is currently the acting ICE director.