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White House struggles to move past migrant family separation crisis, with no reunification plan in sight

WASHINGTON - The day after President Donald Trump claimed he had acted to keep migrant families together, the fate of more than 2,300 children held in custody separate from their parents and that of future asylum-seeking families remained uncertain Thursday.

The continued confusion ensured the president's self-inflicted political and humanitarian crisis would continue as government officials, attorneys and immigration advocates scrambled to understand and implement the revised policy.

Numerous officials throughout the administration declined to answer questions about how, when or whether family reunifications would take place. Not only was the public being left in the dark, but Senate aides complained that they were

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