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A mother migrating from Honduras holds her 1-year-old child as she surrenders to Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing into the U.S. in June 2018 near McAllen, Texas. The government said in a court filing Friday that it could need two years to identify all the children separated from their families at the border over the course of a year.