Four ‘Migrant’ Families Granted ‘Humanitarian Parole’ By Biden Administration to Reunite

It was reported today that the United States will reunite four “migrant” families separated at the southern border during the Trump administration through an emergency process known as “humanitarian parole,”.

The act is a small step toward fulfilling a campaign promise by President Joe Biden and there are reportedly over 1,000 more that the Biden administration will attempt to reunite.

Michelle Brane, who heads a Biden-created task force that aims to reunite separated families, said that “In these cases that we’re talking about this week, the children are in the United States and the parents are coming to join them.”

Brane added that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering whether they could be granted longer-term immigration status.

U.S. House Rep Salud Carbajal applauded the reunifications and said, “The Trump administration tore apart families without a plan to keep track of the children or reunite them. Glad @POTUS is taking steps to right this wrong and reunite families separated under Trump’s policies. #FamiliesBelongTogether“

The Trump administration tore apart families without a plan to keep track of the children or reunite them. Glad @POTUS is taking steps to right this wrong and reunite families separated under Trump's policies. #FamiliesBelongTogetherhttps://t.co/DpRlUTXDLF

— Rep. Salud Carbajal (@RepCarbajal) May 6, 2021

The move comes in the middle of what even some Democrats are referring to a “crisis” on the southern border.

In a recent statement, U.S. House Rep Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said, “I am supportive of President Joe Biden and his administration. However, the reality at the border is still a humanitarian crisis.”

“The Rio Grande Valley still gets an average of 2,000 to 2,500 encounters a day. Of that number, the average is 15 percent unaccompanied children, 36 percent family units, and 49 percent are single adults,” Cuellar explained in the statement.

Cuellar’s statement comes days after Biden claimed his administration has “now gotten control” of the migration surge.