Parents of 545 Children Separated At Border Can’t Be Found

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Parents of 545 Children Separated At Border Can’t Be Found

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Court-appointed lawyers said Tuesday that they have been unable to find parents of 545 children who were separated at the U.S. border with Mexico early in the Trump administration. The children were separated between July 1, 2017, and June 26, 2018, when a federal judge in San Diego ordered that children […]

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