The controversy over President Trump’s executive order to end the policy of separating migrant families who cross into the U.S. illegally is shifting to the courts.
On Thursday, the Department of Justice asked a federal judge in California to relax certain limitations on how long and under what conditions the government can detain migrant children.
In another courtroom in California, a different federal judge will hear arguments on Friday in a case about family separations and the status of the more than 2,000 minors who are still detained.
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