It appears a Texas city was used as a pilot program before childhood separations at the border made headlines
A 551 page report released by congressional Democrats shows there as a ``pilot program'' in El Paso. It took place in 2017 and lasted about six months.
Court documents show more than 11 hundred children were taken from their parents.
The report shows the Department of Health and Human Services, which provides care to migrant children, was concerned about the rising number of unaccompanied children in the latter half of 2017.
It finds the administration began formulating a plan for separations as early as February of that year.
The full scale zero tolerance policy began in the spring of 2018. Hundreds of children have yet to be reunited with their parents.
