MCALLEN, Texas (AP) – An attorney in Texas has been trying to reunite parents at an immigration detention facility with their children after U.S. authorities separated them on the southwest border.
Lawyer Jodi Goodwin said Saturday that another attorney identified the parents at criminal court hearings in McAllen, Texas.
She has been reaching out to the parents at a detention facility in Port Isabel, Texas, to collect information about their cases and their children.
She says she has been inundated with requests for help from the parents and the list is still growing. She says she doesn’t know how many parents she has connected with so far.
She says Immigration and Customs Enforcement has asked her for a list of names to assist in the process.
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