MEDIA ADVISORY: CHC, ACLU Press Call on Hundreds of Children Still Separated from their Parents by the Trump Administration

October 21, 2020
Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, October 21st, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Joaquin Castro will hold a press call with the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) lead litigator, Lee Gelernt, after a court filing revealed that families of 545 children separated from their parents by the Trump administration have still not been located. Almost all of the parents were deported to Central America without their children. As the organization who brought the challenge to the Trump administration's family separation practice, the ACLU is one of the organizations tasked with locating family members separated during the Trump administration's ‘zero tolerance' pilot program.

WHEN:

  • Wednesday, October 21st, 2020, 4:30pm ET

PARTICIPANTS:

  • Rep. Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC)
  • Lee Gelernt, lead litigator, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
  • Rep. Norma Torres (CA-35) Chair of the Central America Caucus

WHERE:

  • Zoom (link upon RSVP)

MEDIA RSVP:

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), founded in December 1976, is organized as a Congressional Member organization, governed under the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives. The CHC is dedicated to voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics in the United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Territories.