US to share migrant sponsors’ immigration status with authorities

The US agency responsible for unaccompanied migrant minors will be allowed to share sponsors’ immigration status with law enforcement agencies under a regulatory change, a move critics say could discourage families from claiming their children.

The US Office for Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which cares for the children until they can be released, also will scrap regulatory language that had prohibited it from denying release solely based on a sponsor’s immigration