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Department of Justice Says the ACLU Should Locate the Deported Parents of Children They Separated & Detained at the Border
U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen displays an executive order he signed that will end the practice of separating family members on June 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. The order would detain parents and children together. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
In a court filing, the Department of Justice said that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which represents plaintiffs affected by President Donald Trumps zero tolerance family separations policy, should use their considerable resources and their network of law firms, NGOs, volunteers, and others, together with the information that defendants have provided (or will soon provide) to reunify deported parents with their children. The Trump administration suggested that the ACLU seek out the parents themselves and ask if they wish to reunite with their children or if they wish to waive that option.
Jacob Soboroff
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NEW: Trump administration says in order to reunite remaining 572 separated kids @ACLU *not* government which separated them should be responsible for:
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Jacob Soboroff
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2h2 hours ago
NEW: ACLU tells me the administration is sitting on information that will allow the parties to find these parents."
572 kids still separated.
An administration official said yesterday that the filing simply asks the court to require the ACLU to determine the wishes of and fulfill their obligations to their clients, as they have repeatedly represented in court that they would. close x
Not only was it the governments unconstitutional separation practice that led to this crisis, but the United States Government has far more resources than any group of NGOs, ACLU attorneys wrote.Neither side can agree about what information is appropriate and necessary for the government to provide. As CNN notes:
The government continues to resist giving the ACLU the entire case files of separated parents for the groups to use to track down parents. Instead, they propose delivering a list of information that the ACLU has said was a non-exhaustive list.The ACLU, while eager to reunite parents with their children, argued in court documents that the government must bear the ultimate burden of finding the parents.
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DBoon
(22,370 posts)Police: "Find it yourself"
CozyMystery
(652 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)on their hands. And private companies make $millions.
CozyMystery
(652 posts)brush
(53,792 posts)the kids and adults in separate facilities that trump's admin put them in.
They get paid for each body for however long they're in the facilitysort of like how private prisons get paid for each inmate.
It's horrendous that trump's admin is responsible for separating kids from parents and now wants to shirk their responsibility to re-unite families onto other parties.
They've effectively created orphans and are saying by their actions and policies that they don't care to fix what they created.
niyad
(113,364 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And the argument is an especially stupid one. Which means the MAGAts will be drawn to it like flies.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... of this silly shit.
This is disgusting !!!
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)these are crimes against humanity and these Trumpfucks need to see justice.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Walk away from the responsibility of fixing what they broke and at the same time deplete the funds of the ACLU.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Its as if an environmental organization legally assisted people impacted by an unscrupulous company that polluted their neighborhood with toxins and won the case and Kurt ordered the company to clean up the mess it made.
Then the company turns around and demands of the court that instead of them being the court named responsible party for cleaning the mess that the environmental company should be court ordered to clean the mess since the environmental company has the research of what is wrong and what to do to correct it that they amassed in making their case.
They want to shift the responsibilty to the ACLU egalitarian, then likely blame the ACLU if they cant fix the mess Trumps policy created.