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Judge Not Ready To Delay Reunification Of Immigrant Toddlers

Judge seeks updates on 101 youngest immigrants.

Judge Not Ready To Delay Reunification Of Immigrant Toddlers
Trump will sign an executive order to keep immigrant families together. (Photographer: Andre Coelho/Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) -- A federal judge said he wasn’t ready to relax a July 10 deadline for the U.S. to reunify immigrant children younger than five with their families. The government holds 101 young children separate from their families, some of which have already been removed from the country.

To contact the reporters on this story: Edvard Pettersson in Los Angeles at epettersson@bloomberg.net;Patricia Hurtado in Federal Court in Manhattan at pathurtado@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: David Glovin at dglovin@bloomberg.net

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