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It's been more than a week since a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to reunite the families it separated at the border.

In the discussion about immigrant kids separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border, one name comes up often these days: RAICES.

Although the family separation crisis at the nation's southern border has slipped off the front pages, the crisis remains: There are still nearly 2,000 children still separated from their parents.

Never question the resilience of the political class. Deep as we are now in the muck and guts of the Trump era, its dedication to managing appearances and propping up an obviously broken status quo endures.

The government agency tasked with reuniting child migrants with the parents they were separated from, or placing them with an appropriate sponsor, is coming up on an important deadline.

Angelica Gonzalez-Garcia waited 55 days for this moment.

A federal judge in California largely rejected an effort by the Trump administration to block a spate of immigration laws in the state in a ruling issued Thursday, dealing a setback to the Justice Department in its offensive against "sanctuary city" policies.