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Government, Immigration Advocates Continue Court Clash Over Family Reunification

A federal judge in San Diego will hold a hearing Friday to discuss the government's progress on meeting a now-expired deadline to end family separations.

New court filings released late Thursday indicate that the Department of Justice and immigration advocates are still far apart in working out a process for reuniting migrant families who were separated under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy.

U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw had instructed the Department of Justice and advocates, especially some 400 parents who already were deported back to their homes countries without their children.

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