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It's the NPR politics podcast in yesterday's episode

We told you that we'd be back in your feed again as soon as we knew more about whether or not the Trump administration

Would meet the deadline to reunite families separated at the border federal authorities say they met that deadline Thursday night

But the story is more complicated and we are here to explain why I'm a smaholid political reporter

And I'm Savannah Komattin or a political editor and we're joined by NPR correspondent John Burnett in Texas

Hey, John hi, I'm not hi, Domenico. Hey there. Hey, so John

We have brought you in because you've been on the border covering this story

You've been covering it for a while and we just want to know sort of the the big I think murky question for a lot of us is

Whether or not the Trump administration actually met this deadline. Did they?

Well, they were able to

reunite as of yesterday about

1440 kids and by their reckoning they say they did meet the deadline

But it's really it's just how you want to define it

I think the immigration attorneys and a lot of the activists and some of the

The groups that are supporting the immigrants would say they haven't because there's still many hundreds of

Kids who remain in shelters around the country weren't there more than 2,500 kids who are separated in the first place?

Right, and I think if you look at the total number it's like 1800 have been reunited

So that's a majority of them, but they're still

You know the government has come back and say well, there's all these parents that weren't eligible to be reunited for all these different reasons

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