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US says it could take two years to identify families separated at border

A child looks through the border wall during the visit of US President Donald Trump to Calexico, California. [Reuters]

It could take the US government up to two years to identify potentially thousands of additional children separated from their parents by the authorities at the southern border, the government said in a court filing.

The filing late on Friday outlined for the first time the Trump administration’s plan for identifying which family members might have been separated by assessing thousands of records using a combination of data analysis, statistical science, and manual review.

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