Majority Of Youngest Migrants Reunited With Parents, Trump Administration Says
Out of 103 children under 5, officials say that 57 have been returned to their parents and that the rest are ineligible. But it's up to a judge to decide whether they've complied with the court order.
by Colin Dwyer
Jul 12, 2018
3 minutes
On Thursday, two days after its original deadline, the Trump administration announced that it has complied with the first part of a court order to return the nearly 3,000 migrant children separated from their parents in recent months.
Administration officials had been under a mandate to reunite the youngest minors, or migrants under the age of 5, with their families by Tuesday — and by Thursday morning, they say they have reunited 57
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