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DHS chief - U.S. aims to meet July 26 deadline on migrant kids

DHS chief - U.S. aims to meet July 26 deadline on migrant kids
Immigrant children housed in a tent encampment are shown walking in single file at the facility near the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake -  Copyright  Mike Blake(Reuters)
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(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working to meet a court-set deadline to reunify migrant children with their parents next week but would not take shortcuts to do so, the head of the department said on Thursday.

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"We will do our best" to meet the July 26 deadline, "but we will not cut corners," U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

(Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by David Alexander)

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