DOJ Says the ACLU Should Locate the Deported Parents of Children They Separated & Detained at the Bo

[niyad]

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 Trump’s “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 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.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]

1. "My car was stolen"

Police: "Find it yourself"

[CozyMystery]

3. Ah, come on! The cops don't know where your car is. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Sure, let a privately funded group find them, while the government sits

on their hands. And private companies make $millions.

[CozyMystery]

5. No pay involved -- this is the ACLU, not a rich maggot's company.

[brush]

7. FYI: The people getting paid are the repug companies housing...

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 facility—sort 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]

9. I think the poster was referring to the grifters housing" these hostages.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Yes, thank you. I've been a supporter/member if ACLU for 30 years.

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. I don't see how this can stand. Makes no sense.

[gratuitous]

11. Note: It's not the court's order, it's the government's argument

And the argument is an especially stupid one. Which means the MAGAts will be drawn to it like flies.

[Glimmer of Hope]

13. Oh. I read this before coffee. I bet the judge will have none of this.

[uponit7771]

15. I'm thinking the judge should just start smacking DOJ attorneys in the mouth if they come with more

... of this silly shit.

This is disgusting !!!

[C_U_L8R]

6. Bring on the International Tribunal

these are crimes against humanity and these Trumpfucks need to see justice.

[eleny]

8. They want a twofer

Walk away from the responsibility of fixing what they broke and at the same time deplete the funds of the ACLU.

[suffragette]

12. They want the court to shift the burden of reuniting families to the ACLU. This is crazy.

It’s 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 can’t fix the mess Trump’s policy created.

[Hekate]

14. KnR

[niyad]

16. totally irrelevant, I know, but. . . what the HELL is kirs doing with her hands???