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U.S. Ordered to Identify Thousands More Separated Families

People stand in front of barbed wire across from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers along the US and Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico.

People stand in front of barbed wire across from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers along the US and Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico.

Photographer: Tomas Ayuso/Bloomberg

The U.S. government must identify perhaps thousands more families who were separated at the Mexican border as long ago as July 2017, a federal judge said Friday.