Most of the families that the Trump administration separated at the border have been reunited. But dozens still have not. Since the policy of family separation officially began last spring, officials have kept many parents and children in the dark about each other’s whereabouts. And in some cases, what serves as a holding facility for children has also been kept from the public. For example, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, was puzzled and upset to see young migrant children being shuttled in and out of a nearby office building. Reveal, a program from the Center for Investigative Reporting, looked into it.
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