US Removes Restrictions on Sharing Immigration Status of Sponsors for Unaccompanied Minors

The change was made to comply with federal law, officials said.

Children aged 3 to 9 at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, on March 30, 2021. Dario Lopez-Mills/AFP/Getty Images

The U.S. government said on March 25 that it is removing restrictions that prevented authorities from sharing with law enforcement the immigration status of people who sponsored unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said in a formal notice that it was making the change because the restrictions contravened federal law.