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Murtaugh also repeated that claim later in the interview with host John Berman.

You have to locate the parents and when they are located in these other countries in many cases, John, the parents do not want the children sent back to them in their home countries.

DHS spokesman Chase Jennings said that the agency has taken every step to facilitate reunification of these families where the parents wanted such reunification to occur.

The simple fact is this: after contact has been made with the parents to reunited them with their children, many parents have refused, Jennings said in a statement.

However the preference of the parents of the hundreds of children at issue is unknown, as they have not yet been successfully contacted by the court-appointed steering committee tasked with the effort.

Migrants from Central America surged to the U.S. border during Trump's administration, as they fled gang violence and other problems that persist in their home countries and put parents who have been sent back in the position of leaving their kids in the care of the U.S. government or having them returned to the dangerous situations they sought to leave.

President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden sparred over immigration during Thursday nights debate in Nashville, Tenn., including the plight of the 545 children who remain separated from their parents as a result of the Trump administration's efforts to deter illegal immigration.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participates in the final presidential debate against U.S. President Donald Trump at Belmont University on October 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Biden was visibly angry when the subject came up during the debate and said its criminal these children have been left in limbo.

Parents were ripped their kids were ripped from their arms and separated, and now they cannot find over 500 of sets of those parents and those kids are alone, Biden said. [With] nowhere to go. Nowhere to go.

Trump countered by criticizing the Obama administrations immigration policy, including the construction of detention facilities for undocumented immigrants, and repeatedly pressing Biden to answer Who made the cages?

Trump also defended his administrations treatment of child migrants, saying they are so well taken care of.

Biden distanced himself from the president he served under, saying Barack Obama made a mistake for how he handled deporations and family detentions during his tenure.

We made a mistake. It took too long to get it right, Biden said during the debate.

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