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Many know nothing about their children's whereabouts. And some say their calls to the government's 1-800 information hotline have gone unanswered.\u003cbr/\u003e              Now, at least, they have the legal system on their side, since a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration Tuesday night to reunite the more than 2,000 children with their parents in 30 days, or 14 days in the case of those under 5.\u003cbr/\u003e              But huge logistical challenges remain, and whether the U.S. government can manage to clear away the red tape, confusion and seeming lack of coordination and make the deadline remains to be seen.\u003cbr/\u003e              The Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, which is in charge of the children, gave no immediate details Wednesday on how they intend to respond to the ruling.\u003cbr/\u003e              Among the complicating factors: Children have been sent to shelters all over the United States, thousands of miles from the border. \u003cbr/\u003e              And perhaps hundreds of parents have already been deported from the U.S. without their children.\u003cbr/\u003e              In El Paso, three dozen parents released Sunday from a U.S. detention center started a feverish search for their children, using the landline phone at a shelter run by Annunciation House.\u003cbr/\u003e              Some of those at Annunciation House rushed to catch buses bound for New York, Dallas and the West Coast to live with family members in the hope that establishing residency will make it easier to get their kids back. \u003cbr/\u003e              Those who left for other cities carried little more than shopping bags stuffed with sandwiches and paperwork.\u003cbr/\u003e              Honduran Wilson Romero hoped to be reunited with his 5-year-old daughter Nataly in California — at the home of his mother, a recent immigrant herself.\u003cbr/\u003e              The 26-year-old father was separated from Nataly by U.S. authorities in El Paso in May. \u003cbr/\u003e              In Honduras, he worked at a textile factory making logos for U.S. brands on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula, one of Latin America's most violent cities. \u003cbr/\u003e              He said he left his homeland so his daughter would have a chance at a career someday. \u003cbr/\u003e              Now he just wants to see her again.\u003cbr/\u003e              For many immigrants, the bureaucracy has become increasingly frustrating as they try to find their children.\u003cbr/\u003e              Some have had to send for birth certificates and identity documents from Honduras and are waiting for them to arrive in the mail.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              El Paso, Texas - 26 June 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              1. People outside migrant shelter, including Wilson Romero from Honduras\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Wilson Romero, Honduran Migrant: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"My daughter is a little more clear than me, short and charming.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of Romero during interview \u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Wilson Romero, Honduran Migrant: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We turned ourselves in, to ask for asylum. We jumped in the river under the bridge and later turned ourselves over to immigration.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various of skylines at sunrise in El Paso, Texas and across the border in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez \u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Wilson Romero, Honduran Migrant:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"An official came and told us, 'You are going to jail and we're going to separate your kids'. Believe me, it was a very difficult moment.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              7. Various of Romero showing the tattoo of his little girl's name on his bicep\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Wilson Romero, Honduran Migrant: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It was very difficult for me to leave her there. My daughter started crying, she grabbed on to my leg and said 'Pappy, don't leave me here. I don't want to be here alone. Take me with you'.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Various of migrants sitting on balcony\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe inside the shelter\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Migrants, all wearing GPS ankle monitors, walk by\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carla Garcia, Honduran Migrant:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I didn't have time to talk with my son. I had just gotten there and they told me they were going to take him away. I didn't think that was possible. They took him away and he was gone and I didn't have time to tell him anything.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              13. Various of migrants receiving advice from shelter organiser on how to reunite with children\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Various of man wearing GPS ankle monitor listening in on advice\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Woman wearing ankle monitor \u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carla Garcia, Honduran Migrant: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I didn't know anything about him until yesterday. I talked to him, the social worker put him on with me. The truth is he wouldn't talk. He was mute. I was talking and he only started talking after an hour. I felt very sad.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              17. Various of migrants outside shelter, some wearing visible ankle monitors \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              El Paso, Texas - 27 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              18. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlos Spector, Attorney, Border Network for Human Rights: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"But to access them, to make actual contact, is a nightmare. We've been experimenting with the numbers and nobody can get through. Several clients I've had, they know where the kids are, they can't get through (to) the numbers.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              19. Various exteriors of Border Network for Human Rights building  \u003cbr/\u003e              20. SOUNDBITE (English) Fernando Garcia, Border Network for Human Rights:  \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Some say it's going to take like a month, a month and a half. I think it's going to take more time than that to reunify thousands of children and thousands of parents.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              El Paso, Texas - 26 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Various of migrants talking in the shelter \u003cbr/\u003e              22. Various of GPS ankle monitors \u003cbr/\u003e              23. Parents speak with shelter organiser \u003cbr/\u003e              24. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Wilson Romero, Honduran Migrant: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The social worker told me they couldn't send my daughter here, I had to go to my final destination and there they were going to send me some paperwork for me to sign and have stamped and then it would be a week of processing before I could get my daughter back.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              El Paso, Texas - 27 June 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              25. Various of Wilson Romero and another migrant walking to the local bus station\u003cbr/\u003e              26. Wilson boards a Greyhound bus destined for California \u003cbr/\u003e              27. Cutaway of bird on a wire\u003cbr/\u003e              28. 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