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The federal government had a deadline.

One week ago today, it had to reunite the families that had been separated at the border.

A federal judge named Dana Sabra issued the order in San Diego in late June.

The federal government missed the deadline.

Today, one week later, around 1500 kids have been reunited with their parents.

About 300 have been discharged in other ways, but something like 700 children are still waiting to be reunified.

And things are still chaotic at the border.

A few days ago, there was a report of a six-year-old girl getting sexually assaulted while in detention.

Yesterday, 500 fathers went on a hunger strike, and then El Paso, it looks like the government's even having trouble with paperwork.

Late on Saturday night, the ACLU, which is the group that's kind of the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit over family separation and reunification,

they filed something from a lawyer who had talked to four detainee fathers.

Darlin broke this story. She reports on immigration at box.

Layla Aron was the lawyer with Paul Weiss, which is a big law firm in New York.

She reported that the fathers had been reunited with their children on a bus and had all been given forms that gave them three options for what would happen now,

because all of the fathers had already been given deportation orders.

So they had the option of getting deported with their children, of getting deported alone, and having their children kind of try to pursue their own individual court cases.

And third, I don't want to answer either of these. I want to talk to a lawyer.

Okay, so it's stay with your kids and get deported right now.

Get deported yourself, and your kids can find their own way through the system.

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