ripped away from their mothers
hundred of children ask why
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Author Notes
Renga is a Japanese collaborative poetry form in which poets write alternating verses of 5-7-5 stanzas and 7-7 couplets which are linked in succession by multiple poets. Only the first 5/7/5 is a haiku; the rest 5/7/5 stanzas are only restricted to syllable count. Renga is older than haiku.
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The Trump administration rolled out its zero-tolerance policy in the U.S.-Mexico border, hundreds of migrant children were separated from their families. As those children were shuttled around the country in late 2017, their parents were swiftly detained or deported, with few records taken by the government about where they went or how to contact them. It was only in 2019, after a federal judge ordered officials to hand their names over to immigration lawyers, that the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups tried in earnest to begin reuniting them. On Tuesday, those lawyers submitted a court filing with a grim update: They have not yet been able to reach the parents of 545 separated children. About two-thirds of those parents are believed to be somewhere in Central America without their children.
(CNN) Joe Biden is pledging to form a task force that will focus on reuniting the 545 immigrant children who've been separated from their families.
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