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US must work to reunify children, calls govt's efforts unacceptable: Judge

The government must "identify an individual or a team" to create and implement a procedure for those kids to be reunified with their families

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President Donald Trump looks into the crowd as he addresses supporters at Tampa Bay Technical High School in Tampa | Photo: Reuters

Patricia Hurtado | Bloomberg
The federal judge presiding over the reunification of immigrant children separated from their parents at the US border ordered the government to figure out how to reunite the more than 500 children still in custody after calling the government’s efforts “unacceptable.”
 
The government must “identify an individual or a team” to create and implement a procedure for those kids to be reunified with their families -- most of whom have been deported -- US District Judge Dana Sabraw told Justice Department attorneys in San Diego. At a hearing earlier Friday, Sabraw said it appeared the government had no plan for