Trump administration says ACLU should find hundreds of deported parents

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(CNN) The Trump administration says immigrant advocacy groups should be responsible for tracking down more than 500 parents who were separated from their children and deported without them.

In a court document filed Thursday as part of the ongoing lawsuit over separated families, the Justice Department suggested the American Civil Liberties Union should use its "network of law firms, NGOs, volunteers and others" to find the parents with information provided by the Department of Health and Human Services.

The administration is proposing that every Monday, the ACLU would share any new information about the parents it locates, including whether they wish to be reunited with their children.

"Not only was it the government's 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.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/03/politics/trump-administration-aclu-deported-parents/index.html

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1. +

In a supplemental court filing, the administration said 410 children who remain in custody have parents who are no longer in the United States.

At a Tuesday hearing, Commander Jonathan White of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, who's been heading up family reunification efforts, had said the parents of more than 500 kids from separated families may have been deported. White said 429 of those kids are in custody and 81 kids have been released to other sponsors.

[Doodley]

2. Trump administration: not our problem.

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3. Outrageous

The president* directed government employees to make the mess, it's their responsibility to clean it up. I hope the court will see to it that the right thing happens promptly for these families, namely reunification.

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4. Well, if Trump is willing to provide federal funding to the ACLU

and other groups to do the work, then maybe. In fact, I'd have way more faith in the ability of the ACLU and the various immigrant advocacy groups to do this work than any Trumpster.

Give the ACLU et. al, say, a billion dollars, and take the funding from the tax dollars being spent at Trump hotels and golf courses and other Trump related scams, and I'd say go for it.

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5. Notices in local and national newspapers

should be running all the time, informing folks that their children are ready to be picked up. It’s a start