Trump Administration Says ACLU- Not Government- Should Find Deported Parents
Source: USA Today
2 hrs. ago.
The Trump administration believes that the responsibility for finding parents who were deported after they were separated from their children should rest with immigration advocacy groups, not with the federal government, according to a court document filed Thursday.
The administration reunited more than 1,400 children with their parents by a July 26 deadline imposed by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw. But the judge gave the government more time to reunite more complicated cases, including an estimated 431 children whose parents had already been deported.
Justice Department lawyers wrote on Thursday that the government would turn over whatever identifying information it could on the parents who were deported, including last known phone numbers and addresses. But they wrote that the ACLU "should use their considerable resources and their network of law firms, (non-governmental organizations), volunteers, and others" to establish contact with the deported parents.
ACLU lawyers argued that the Trump administration is trying to shirk its responsibility by passing its work off to private groups despite its own considerable resources. "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 (no matter how many NGOs and law firms are willing to help),'" they wrote....more...
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The ACLU attorneys said they "hope that the Government will take significant and prompt steps to find the parents on their own." They also complained that the government is not even sharing information it already has on parents who have been deported, mostly to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
The ACLU wrote that they found at least 12 parents who were already in contact with U.S. government officials, proving that the administration has established contact information with some deported parents but didn't pass the information along to the ACLU. Even when information is being shared, it's only coming in pieces. Some addresses for parents list only a street, some merely a city.
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