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Roger Ardino: Government Custody and Care Hundreds

roger ardino: Scores of children separated from their families were sent to government-contracted shelters or foster care hundreds of miles away from where their parents were detained, according to The Chronicle Herald. Roger Ardino, from Honduras, was happy to be back with his 4-year-old son, Roger Jr., who sat on his lap and played with the microphones as the father spoke to reporters. The administration has been scrambling to reunify the families this week to meet the first of two deadlines set by a federal judge in San Diego who ordered thousands of children be given back to their immigrant parents. The father said he was still shaken by the ordeal he had to go through just to speak to his boy while he was in government custody. He described feeling a pain in his heart and like he couldn't breathe after his son was taken away. The two were separated in February. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.