Court settlement paves way to reunite Central American children with parents in US | World News, The Indian Express

Court settlement paves way to reunite Central American children with parents in US | World News, The Indian Express

By Reuters |Updated: April 13, 2019 3:43:14 pm

Court settlement paves way to reunite Central American children with parents in US

The settlement follows a lawsuit that challenged a decision in 2017 by President Donald Trump's administration to shut down a program that allowed children living in Central America to be reunited with parents residing legally in the United States.

A migrant child from Honduras looks out the window at a shelter in El Paso, Texas, January 3, 2019. Last month, US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco ordered the government to resume processing children who had been conditionally approved for the program when it was terminated by the Trump administration. (File/Sara Naomi Lewkowicz/The New York Times)

The Trump administration has agreed to allow approximately 2,700 children living in Central America to be reunited with their parents in the United States under a court settlement announced on Friday, according to court documents.