U.S. judge says may rule next week on reuniting migrant children
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - A federal judge said on Friday he could rule as soon as the middle of next week on a request to order the U.S. government to reunite thousands of immigrant children who were separated from their parents after illegally crossing the Mexico-U.S. border.
While U.S. President Donald Trump bowed to political pressure on Wednesday and issued an executive order ending the separations, the administration has been silent on plans to reunite parents split from their children.
More than 2,300 migrant children have been separated since the Trump administration began a zero tolerance policy toward illegal border crossings in early May.
At a court hearing on Friday, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union pressed U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego to issue an injunction as soon as Friday evening to force the government to begin reuniting families.
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POLITICS JUNE 22, 2018 / 6:44 PM / UPDATED 9 MINUTES AGO
Tom Hals
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sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)Desert grandma
(804 posts)a monthly donor since November of 2016. The courts are the only way to check this ego-manic, delusional, psychopathic president. At least until November...which can not come soon enough.
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)May?
Two more weeks for the judge, minimum.
mahannah
(893 posts)bluestarone
(17,025 posts)Take weeks or months for these Judges????? Just seems so sad for these Kids!!
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)He was a Bush appointee and is married to San Diego DA Summer Stephan, a Republican:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Sabraw
But he did reject the Bush administration's effort to get this case dismissed, and he is half-Japanese, apparently an immigrant or son of immigrants himself.
His wife has been fairly active in trying to stop child trafficking so maybe there's hope he will care about the kids.