There was a surge in "unnecessary" family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border, said migrant advocates, who were keeping track of instances where migrants have been mistreated while in U.S. Border Patrol custody.
A month after President Joe Biden announced new restrictions on asylum access at the border, advocates reported that several families that were arriving together were getting separated, as many were sent back to Mexico without knowledge of their relatives' whereabouts, AZ Central reported.
