The Trump Administration's handling of asylum seekers trying to enter the US has left more than 2000 children in limbo at detention centres. Here is what we know so far about the state of the detained children.

President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies on Thursday to begin reuniting immigrant families recently separated at the US-Mexico border.

The Justice Department (directed by the White House) asked a district judge to modify a 1997 settlement that has been interpreted as setting the 20-day limit on detaining children who entered the country illegally, regardless of whether they entered with a parent. It also sought an exemption from state licensing requirements for federal facilities that house the children.

What will happen with the more than 2300 children separated from their parents at the border in recent weeks remains unclear. Officials have said they are working to reunite families as soon as possible but have provided no definite answers on how that will happen.