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Court Filing: Children and Sponsor Homes

court filing: He said the government should focus on reuniting children currently in its custody, not those who have already been released to sponsors, according to CTV. It would destabilize the permanency of their existing home environment, and could be traumatic to the children, White said in a court filing late Friday, citing his years of experience working with unaccompanied migrant children and background as a social worker. Jonathan White, who leads the Health and Human Services Department's efforts to reunite migrant children with their parents, said removing children from sponsor homes to rejoin their parents would present grave child welfare concerns. The administration outlined its position in a court-ordered response to a government watchdog report last month that found many more migrant children may have been split from their families than previously reported. It is unknown how many families were split under a longstanding policy that allows separation under certain circumstances, such as serious criminal charges against a parent, concerns over the health and welfare of a child or medical concerns. The government didn't adequately track separated children before a federal judge in San Diego ruled in June that children in its custody be reunited with their parents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.