U.S. Says It Needs 2 Years to ID, Reunite Separated Migrant Children

Horrifying and heartbreaking! The cruel, inhumane, criminal, and brutal actions of our government need to be stopped and absolutely condemned in every way possible. These are crimes against humanity. Pure evil. Makes my heart hurt! — Molly

Britany Fuentes Maldonado, 4, smiles as she is reunited with her Honduran family in July in San Antonio, Texas, two months after being separated from her parents.

Justice Department says 47,000 unaccompanied children were taken into custody

The Trump administration wants up to two years to find potentially thousands of children who were separated from their families at the border before a judge halted the practice last year, a task that it says is more laborious than previous efforts because the children are no longer in government custody.

The Justice Department said in a court filing late Friday that it will take at least a year to review about 47,000 cases of unaccompanied children taken into government custody between July 1, 2017, and June 25, 2018 — the day before U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw halted the practice of splitting families.

The administration would begin by sifting through names for traits that would signal separation — for example, children under five who would most likely to have been accompanied by a parent.

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