Judge gives Trump admin. 6 months to identify migrant children who were separated from their families for reunification, a process the White House previously stated would take up to 2 years.
The Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General estimated in a report thateven before the"zero tolerance" policy last May and June that prosecuted immigrant parents who crossed the border illegally while holding their children separately in HHS custody.
But Judge Dana Sabraw of the Southern District of California on Thursday ordered the administration to have its plan completed by Oct. 25. According to Sabraw's order, the timeline may be modified for a"showing of good cause." Neither the Department for Health and Human Services or Homeland Security immediately responded to a request for comment from NBC News.that a list of some of the children separated"very likely exists" because Customs and Border Protection began assigning numbers to track families in April 2018.
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