Judge says Trump team '100 percent' responsible for finding deported immigrant parents
Source: USA Today
Alan Gomez, USA TODAY Published 4:48 p.m. ET Aug. 3, 2018 | Updated 5:09 p.m. ET Aug. 3, 2018
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?"
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/03/judge-says-trump-administration-100-responsible-finding-deported-migrant-parents/901050002/
LandOfHopeAndDreams
(872 posts)That Judge doth protest too much methinks.
I'm sure the Administration will now feel ashamed. Or not.
marble falls
(57,104 posts)lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)The U.S. taxpayer will be responsible for the the money, time, and manpower necessary to try to fix the Trump team's wreckless enforcement and mismanagement of the separation policy.
Some parents and children may end up paying the ultimate price of never being reunited.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)Two rulings in one day...Happy, happy weekend!
DACA and now this. Soooooooooooo glad for all of the families. There is still work to do but I am grateful for any ruling in our favor since we all know he is stacking the courts with his own picks. Now we have to stop Kavanaugh.
benld74
(9,904 posts)NBachers
(17,120 posts)Volaris
(10,272 posts)Who ALSO got impeached, btw.
We're coming for you Donald. We will not be merciful.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,034 posts)That spoiled trustafarian never take's responsibility for anything.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)The concept that the ACLU should find the missing parents was really stupid even coming from trump
marble falls
(57,104 posts)usaf-vet
(6,189 posts)dragged before this court. For crimes against humanity.
[link:https://www.icj-cij.org/en|
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Also publicize the names of the Trump officials arguing for this lousy corrupt administration in court.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And posted with their location and have a website available to all parents , and people connected to use to identify , and set in place their return. I also bet they're lying about the numbers of children they've taken. they've lied about everything else. When they are all exposed for what they've done to these children it will be horrific, and show it was their intentions to hurt them badly all along. People responsible need to go to jail for child abuse, and forced out of office.
precient
(15 posts)Apparently, the Trump regime doesn't grasp the full meaning of court ORDER. The judge didn't make a request, it was an order. We don't need to look too far to explain this. The Republicans are now the party of criminality and the opponents of law and order, the judiciary, and federal law enforcement. Go figure...