There is litigation that looks as though it will succeed.

The litigation (on Buzzfeed - click here) has tons of case law cited. All the case law is from the USA. The attorneys involved are representing three parents currently in detention facilities. There is a father that has no knowledge of his 12 year old girl, a mother who has spoken with her son age, 9 I think, twice since May and another mother with three children, the youngest 2, that has the most support in talking to her children twice a week for 10 minutes.

The parents are calling this torture because they do not have intimate information about their children such as their whereabouts, the wellness, the food they are eating and if they are being cared for.

The US authorities involved in this state there are currently 500 families reunited, but, thousands more to go.

June 22, 2018
By Zoe Tillman

David and Margaret Youth & Family Services in La Verne is one of four agencies providing shelter and foster care services to about 100 kids that were separated from parents at the border. 

In a quiet nook (click here) in the small city of La Verne, small cottages topped with Spanish tile are spread across a sprawling green campus.

Long ago, it was an orphanage; now it’s a group home for foster kids. Recently, it also became one of several shelters in the Los Angeles area that quietly began to house kids who have been split from their parents at the border....

... Details began to emerge Friday about the whereabouts of the separated children sent to Los Angeles and other locations around the country. But this has done little to ease concerns about the children's welfare.

“People can have the best intentions to help, but it can be very detrimental for the children,” said Camila Alvarez, managing attorney with the Central American Resource Center. “Some of these places are not well-known intentionally.”

Some immigration advocates said they were hopeful the children would receive good care at the Southern California facilities.

“Believe me, these kids are way better off here being cared for than probably any other place in the U.S.,” said Lindsay Toczylowski, executive director of Immigrant Defenders Law Center, on Facebook. Her organization works directly with children in detention.

She added that her organization’s clients "who have been housed in local shelters have never raised any safety concerns."

Most of the kids in the L.A. area are under 9. They are reportedly detained in facilities and foster homes run by at least four nonprofit agencies.

Officials with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the federal agency charged with managing the kids, did not respond to repeated requests for comment....