U.S., Mexico vow to reunite separated migrant families quickly


  • World
  • Wednesday, 11 Jul 2018

Elsa Ortiz speaks on a mobile phone to her son David Tobar, who's currently at a shelter in Houston, Texas, after being separated, while protesting outside the hotel where U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is holding a meeting with foreign ministers from Mexico and Central America, in Guatemala City, Guatemala July 10, 2018. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The United States and Mexico on Tuesday vowed to work with Central American nations to reunite migrant families separated at the U.S. border "as quickly as possible" as the Trump administration faced fresh criticism over the practice.

More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents after U.S. President Donald Trump's government began a "zero tolerance" policy in early May, seeking to prosecute all adults who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

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