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In this June 2018 photo, Christian, from Honduras, recounts his separation from his child at the border. A judge has given the federal government six months to identify children separated from their families.

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Court Orders Administration To Identify Separated Migrant Children Within 6 Months

7:45am April 26, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The government lost track of thousands of kids it had separated from families trying to cross at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now the administration has six months to find them.

An asylum-seeking boy Central American boy runs after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego in December 2018.

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Judge Says Government May Have To Reunite More Migrant Families Separated At Border

11:26pm March 08, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

A federal judge rejects the government's argument that identifying and reuniting families separated before the zero tolerance policy was announced is too burdensome.

U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Commander Jonathan White testified Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee on the Trump administration's migrant family separation policy.

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Sexual Assault Of Detained Migrant Children Reported In The Thousands Since 2015

7:43pm February 26, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

Opponents of the Trump administration's family separation policy say migrant children are not safe in government custody. Administration officials say most of the allegations are unproved.

U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw, shown in July, appears pleased with the Trump administration's framework for reuniting separated families, presented on Friday.

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Judge Pleased With Government Effort But Hundreds Of Children Still In Custody

8:32pm August 10, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

About 550 immigrant children between the ages of 5 and 17 are still separated from their families. The government has presented a framework that outlines steps to reunite them.

Families with young children protest the separation of immigrant families with a sit-in at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington last week.

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Federal Judge Calls Government Plan To Reunify Migrant Families 'Disappointing'

7:37pm August 03, 2018

The Trump administration had argued that the ACLU should take responsibility for locating parents who were deported back to Central America without their children.

Natalia Oliveira da Silva and her daughter, Sara, 5, hug at a Catholic Charities facility in San Antonio, TX. They were separated in late May.

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Government, Immigration Advocates Continue Court Clash Over Family Reunification

9:21pm August 02, 2018

by Richard Gonzales

A federal judge in San Diego will hold a hearing Friday to discuss the government's progress on meeting a now-expired deadline to end family separations.

Ivanka Trump, White House adviser and daughter of President Trump, speaks during an Axios360 News Shapers event Thursday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

Ivanka Trump: Family Separations A 'Low Point'

2:31pm August 02, 2018

by Sarah McCammon

The president's daughter said she's "vehemently against" separating families, while adding that she's concerned about policies that encourage parents to send children on dangerous journeys.

In this June 17, 2018 file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody on charges of illegal entry sit in cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas.

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Detained Fathers Turn To Hunger Strike

1:13pm August 02, 2018

by John Burnett

Immigrant families held at the Karnes County Residential Center in Texas are striking to protest their imprisonment.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Executive Associate Director of Enforcement And Removal Operations Matthew Albence, testifies as the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the Trump administration's policies on immigration enforcement and

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Lawmakers Question Trump Officials On Family Separation Policy

7:12pm July 31, 2018

by Joel Rose

As the federal government tries to undo its migrant family separation policy, Trump administration officials faced tough questioning Tuesday from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

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A screenshot from a ProPublica video shows Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid after reuniting with her mother, Cindy, at an airport in Houston.

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Video Shows 6-Year-Old Girl Heard On ProPublica Tape Reunited With Mother

8:25pm July 13, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

After being separated from her mother, Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid asked authorities to call her aunt — she had memorized the number. Now ProPublica has published video of her back with her mom.