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The US government failed to meet the federal judge's deadline to unite all children separately from their parents on the US-Mexico border, under President Donald Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy, about 500 children still in government shelters Waiting for parents - According to the updated numbers issued on Thursday night, including 5 - 5 years of age.
Trump administration officials provided data in response to the lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union. They indicate a slight decrease compared to 528 children last week.
Some of the 497 children still are in custody, whose parents were expelled, making it difficult to reconnect them. Government officials said on Thursday that they are able to contact the parents of 318 But a steering committee formed by ACLU and other advocacy organizations says that the number of parents contacted is less than that.
Advocacy groups say that difficulties in facilitating reunion include discrepancies between children who have been identified in shelters and have been registered in the official list of individual children, looking for phone numbers for parents , And filing a court of Thursday according to "other issues related to information exchange".
After the first Trump administration received extensive condemnation on zero tolerance policy, US District Judge Dana Sabra gave government to unite 2,600 more children with their parents till July 26.
According to the numbers released on Thursday night, till this week, a total of 1,937 children have been reunited with their parents.
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