The Trump administration has told a federal judge that it has reunited more than 1,000 parents with their children after the families were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, but it has lost track of hundreds more parents.
The data, submitted in a court hearing on Tuesday, suggests that, by the government’s accounting, it will largely meet a second deadline imposed by the judge to bring eligible immigrant families back together.
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw set a deadline of this Thursday late last month, giving the government 30 days to reunite more than 2,500 children, ages 5 to 17, with their parents. He set an earlier deadline of July 10 for children under 5.
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