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underpants

(182,829 posts)
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 05:34 PM Aug 2018

Judge rejects Trump's ACLU nonsense. "100%" responsibility for separated families

Judge says Trump team '100 percent' responsible for finding deported immigrant parents

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/03/judge-says-trump-administration-100-responsible-finding-deported-migrant-parents/901050002/

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?"

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Judge rejects Trump's ACLU nonsense. "100%" responsibility for separated families (Original Post) underpants Aug 2018 OP
Lock them up judge! malaise Aug 2018 #1
It's time to throw these monsters in prison C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #2
GOOD! BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #3
Good. Snackshack Aug 2018 #4
Our system working as it should in spite of Hortensis Aug 2018 #5
I sense another tweet from Needy Amin gratuitous Aug 2018 #6
Hello ? The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief does not do "responsibility" Achilleaze Aug 2018 #7
You broke it Racerdog1 Aug 2018 #8
Looks like the only check and balance in the country is the courts. Equinox Moon Aug 2018 #9
'Yes, we robbed the stagecoach, judge, But nobody thinks it's up to us to return the money!" struggle4progress Aug 2018 #10
Monsters Hekate Aug 2018 #11
Trump loses another court case Gothmog Aug 2018 #12
I'm so fucking stupid Nevernose Aug 2018 #13

BigmanPigman

(51,609 posts)
3. GOOD!
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 05:53 PM
Aug 2018

First they have the balls to deny this was their goal from day one to putting all the responsibility, work and future costs on the people who exposed the crimes in the first place. Unbe-fucking-lievable!!!!!

I HATE HIM!!! I HATE HIM!!! I HATE HIM!!!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Our system working as it should in spite of
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 06:06 PM
Aug 2018

depravity at the top. I'm admiring Judge Sabraw right now almost as much as I am those who wrote our constitution in another, incredibly different age. Were they good or what???!!!

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. I sense another tweet from Needy Amin
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 06:17 PM
Aug 2018

Look for Judge Sabraw to join the ranks of the crooked, the disloyal, and the Democrats in Trump's squirrelly little brain.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
7. Hello ? The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief does not do "responsibility"
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 06:20 PM
Aug 2018

Never has. Never will. He's a shirker, and has a full-flown case of republican family values. Poorest choice of all time for role model - little republican kids gonna grow up totally twisted.

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
13. I'm so fucking stupid
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 08:55 PM
Aug 2018

I heard a bit of this on the radio this morning. Stupid me, I just assumed that it was something dumb President Shitlord tweeted or said in the Pennsylvania rally recently.

It wasn’t until THIS article that I realized that actual atoormeys from the actual American government actually made one of the craziest demands I’ve ever heard.

They’re like a serial killer in a movie who won’t tell you where the kidnap victims are unless you make him promises.

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