On the day the Trump admin. said it would reunite migrant families with the help of a 'central database,' an official admitted privately the government only had enough info to reconnect 60 parents with their kids, according to emails obtained by NBCNews
New emails show that the administration had "no way to link" separated migrant children and the parents they were taken from.
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