Feds Start to Reunite Families Separated at Border

Border Patrol agent Marlene Castro speaks to a group of illegal immigrants and children who just crossed into the United States from Mexico, in Hidalgo County, Texas, on May 26, 2017. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—The government has come under fire for separating families, and again for not reuniting them quickly enough.

However, the Department of Health and Human Services is identifying some of the parents as serious criminals.