Crime Prevents DHS From Reuniting All Border Children

A woman who sits with her son at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center after recently crossing the U.S.–Mexico border in McAllen, Texas, on June 21, 2018. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—Just 57 of the 103 children under the age of 5 who were separated at the border recently were eligible to be reunited with the adults who brought them, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

On June 26, a federal judge in San Diego ordered that parents and children who had been separated after crossing the border illegally should be reunited within 30 days—or 14 days if the child is under 5.