Judge says Trump team '100 percent' responsible for finding deported immigrant parents
Source: USA Today
Alan Gomez, USA TODAY Published 4:48 p.m. ET Aug. 3, 2018 | Updated 5:09 p.m. ET Aug. 3, 2018
A federal judge on Friday rejected a Trump administration request to make the ACLU primarily responsible for locating migrant parents who were deported after they were separated from their children, making clear that the government bears "100 percent" of the burden.
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said the ACLU and a team of non-governmental organizations, volunteers, and pro-bono attorneys can help locate about 400 parents who were deported and have not yet been located by the government. But Sabraw said that ACLU lawyers, who are representing plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit, are not the ones who separated the families in the first place.
"The reality is that for every parent who is not located, there will be a permanently orphaned child, and that is 100 percent the responsibility of the administration," Sabraw said. "The government has the sole burden and responsibility and obligation to make (reunifications) happen."
The judge also scolded administration officials for moving so slowly to track down the deported parents. He cited an estimate that only about a dozen of the parents have been found in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, asking, "Is that true?"
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/03/judge-says-trump-administration-100-responsible-finding-deported-migrant-parents/901050002/
= new reply since forum marked as read
Two rulings in one day...Happy, happy weekend!
DACA and now this. Soooooooooooo glad for all of the families. There is still work to do but I am grateful for any ruling in our favor since we all know he is stacking the courts with his own picks. Now we have to stop Kavanaugh.
dragged before this court. For crimes against humanity.
[link:https://www.icj-cij.org/en|
