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More Than 1,700 Children May Have Been Separated from Parents, Federal Government Says

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Yeni Maricela Gonzalez Garcia (center) stands with her children 6 year-old Deyuin (left), 9 year-old Jamelin (right) and 11 year-old Lester (back) as she and her lawyer speak with the news media after she was reunited with her children at the East Harlem Cayuga Centers on July 13, 2018 in New York City. Gonzalez Garcia, from Guatemala, drove cross-country to be reunited with her three children after they were taken from an Arizona immigration facility over eight weeks ago. Gonzalez Garcia crossed over the U.S. border with her three children on May 19, only two days before they were taken from her as part of President Donald Trump's controversial zero-tolerance policy of removing immigrant children from their parents after they are detained. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A federal judge in San Diego says he's very encouraged by the government's speed in identifying additional migrant children taken from their parents by border officials in the year before the judge ordered an end to family separations.

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