Trump promises to end family separations, but officials have yet to issue a plan to reunite children with parents
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump may have created a "catch and release" problem now that he has signed an executive order that keeps his "100 percent prosecution" policy in place and stops the practice of separating families at the border.
The day after 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 confusion ensured the president's self-inflicted political and humanitarian crisis would continue as government officials, attorneys and immigration advocates struggled to understand and implement the revised policy.
As officials in Washington scrambled to develop a plan to reunite immigrant families, administration lawyers went to federal court in Los Angeles, seeking a change in previous rulings that have limited how long the government can hold children in custody.
The Justice Department asked the court for "limited emergency relief" that would allow immigration officials to "detain alien minors who
