{"id":600848,"date":"2018-07-06T14:37:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=600848"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:37:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T20:37:28","slug":"the-government-now-says-it-needs-more-time-to-reunite-children-under-5-with-their-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/07\/the-government-now-says-it-needs-more-time-to-reunite-children-under-5-with-their-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"The government now says it needs more time to reunite children under 5 with their parents"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mario\"

Ivan Pierre Aguirre \/ for The Texas Tribune<\/p>

Mario, who did not want to release his last name, holds the number to the hotline parents are suppose to call to try to find their children during a press conference at the Casa Vides Annunciation House immigrant shelter on June 25 in El Paso.<\/p><\/div>\n

With just days to go before a court-mandated Tuesday deadline to reunite parents with children under 5 who were taken from them at the border, the federal government says it needs more time.<\/p>\n

In a court filing late Thursday, federal lawyers said the government might have to miss the deadline in cases where parents have been paroled or otherwise released into the interior of the United States as opposed to remaining in immigration detention facilities. Reuniting will also take more time in cases where officials aren’t able to confirm parentage using DNA cheek swabs.<\/p>\n