- Parents and relatives of migrant children separated at the US-Mexico border are being forced to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars to be reunited.
- Relatives have paid nearly $2,000 per child to cover transportation after separated children were sent to facilities around the country.
- The payments are to cover one-way airfares for the child, and a return flight for the escort.
- Sponsors covering transportation isn't a new policy, but it has been halted in the past and is now being applied to parents whose children were taken away under the "zero tolerance" policy.
Relatives of migrant children who were separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border are being forced to cover huge airfare costs in order to be reunited.
Over several weeks, the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy saw more than 2,300 migrant children removed from the care of their detained parents and sent to centers around the country.
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- 'I'm just thankful to be here in America': An asylum-seeker speaks out about narrowly escaping getting separated from his son
- An asylum-seeker who crossed the border with his young son says he's surprised by how welcoming Americans have been
- One asylum-seeker was warned his son could be taken from him at the border — but he crossed anyway, because Honduras was too dangerous for them to stay
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