The government said Friday it could take as long as two years to reunite children who were separated from their families at the southern border as part of Trump’s family separation policy. The Trump administration admitted earlier this year they failed to keep proper records on which children in its care had been separated from their parents. Last month, the judge overseeing a lawsuit on behalf of separated families expanded the case to include any children who were separated from their parents as early as July 2017, nearly a year before the policy officially took effect, potentially adding thousands of children to the 2,700 cases previously identified. The ACLU, which brought the class-action suit against the government, said a two-year wait could be “devastating” and that the group would challenge the administration’s plan in court.