Where are things now?

A US court in June ruled that the government must reunite parents and children, and that immigration forces needed to stop most family separations at the border.

That was viewed as a major rebuke of the Trump administration policies – and mandated that the government reunite all children under the age of five with their parents within 14 days, and all minor children over the age of five within 30 days.

That has resulted in reunification, and also chaos.

Some parents – around 463 – were reportedly pushed to self deport in order to be reunited with their children (regardless of asylum seeking status), and it has been reported that 1,012 children have been reunited with their parents.