Judge gives Trump administration six months to identify children separated from families

Administration officials said process could take as long as two years as it reviews 47,000 cases

The federal government has six months to identify potentially thousands of children who were separated from their families at the US-Mexico border early in Donald Trump’s term, a judge said Thursday.

Trump administration officials said they had a goal of six months but opposed any deadline, saying it could take as long as two years to reunite children with their parents if efforts to speed up the process fail.

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