Hundreds of migrant children separated from their parents at the US - Mexico border have still not been reunited with their families by a court - ordered deadline.
The US government announced late on Thursday that more than 700 children had been judged not eligible for reunification by authorities. Of those, 431 children could not be reunited as their parents had already been deported from the US.
More than 2, 500 children were separated from their parents at the border in the past several months amid a zero - tolerance policy on people entering the US illegally.
The policy, which ordered the criminal prosecution of anyone caught crossing the southern border illegally, was suspended by Donald Trump after a fierce backlash when images emerged of children kept in chainlink fence detention centres while their parents were held in jail awaiting immigration hearings.
In some cases, parents were deported while their children were still in the US.
Source: The Guardian