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Court Orders Administration To Identify Separated Migrant Children Within 6 Months

The government lost track of thousands of kids it had separated from families trying to cross at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now the administration has six months to find them.

Until the Trump administration changed its practice last year, the government had quietly thousands of children from parents trying to cross into the country at the southern border — in the process, sometimes

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