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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?"
malaise
(269,054 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Enough is enough.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)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!!!
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Thank you Judge Sabraw!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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)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)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.
Racerdog1
(808 posts)Now fix it.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)Gothmog
(145,320 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)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 wasnt until THIS article that I realized that actual atoormeys from the actual American government actually made one of the craziest demands Ive ever heard.
Theyre like a serial killer in a movie who wont tell you where the kidnap victims are unless you make him promises.