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Why it’s so difficult to reunite separated migrant families

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the government to reunite immigrant families who had been separated at the border within 30 days, or sooner for children younger than 5. But that timeline may be hard to meet, raising the stakes for the Trump administration. John Yang gets analysis John Sandweg, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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