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Feds want psychological tests for parents of separated kids

FILE - A teddy bear is left on the sign of U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the port-of-entry, June 26, 2018, in Fabens, Texas along the international border where immigrant children are being held. A group tried to deliver items to the children housed in tents at the facility but were turned away. The Biden administration is asking that parents of children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border undergo another round of psychological evaluations in an effort to measure how just traumatized they were by the Trump-era policy, court documents show. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

FILE - A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz., June 10, 2021, to seek asylum. The Biden administration is asking that parents of children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border undergo another round of psychological evaluations in an effort to measure how just traumatized they were by the Trump-era policy, court documents show. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

FILE - Immigrants seeking asylum who were recently reunited arrive at a hotel in San Antonio, July 23, 2018. The Biden administration is asking that parents of children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border undergo another round of psychological evaluations in an effort to measure how just traumatized they were by the Trump-era policy, court documents show. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Feds want psychological tests for parents of separated kids