The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called the revelation “horrific” and blamed the administration’s poor execution of the practice of family separations.
“The fact that citizens got caught up in this mess shows just how poor the government’s record-keeping was, and this is just the latest example,” said Lee Gelernt, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.
On 26 June, in a suit filed by the ACLU against the government over the separation of families at the southern border, federal judge Dana Sabraw granted a preliminary injunction requiring the reunification of children under the age of five by 10 July.
In a hearing on Tuesday, just before the deadline, the DoJ was asked to account for each failed reunification of the 102 younger children in its care. It noted 27 cases where it found reunification was not currently feasible, including one “because the parent’s location has been unknown for more than a year … and records show the parent and child might be US citizens”.
Previously the DoJ had only revealed that the child’s father could not be located. The ACLU and the court were only made aware that both father and child might be US citizens on Tuesday.
“It actually happens much more frequently than you would believe,” Gelernt said. “They [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] make mistakes.”
In total the DoJ said it expected to have 38 children under five reunified by Tuesday’s 10pm PT deadline, 16 “soon thereafter” and another 20 depending on a number of conditions including whether or not parents can be located, and “if those parents request reunification”.
why does donald trump personally do this to every person on the planet
Jaxon Torres
Good.
Kevin Adams
Who fucking cares? Any time someone is arrested in this country for commiting a crime, they're put in jail. And guess what? They're removed from their children. WOOOWWWWW. HOLY FUCK. WHAT A CONCEPT. You really mean to tell me you just figured out that arresting people means separating them from their kids???
Nolan Evans
good now start shooting traitors in the head
Hudson White
kill all marxist post modernist thats where I stand commie
Blake Stewart
I wonder what the American Kike Lover Union thinks of CPS.
One child. One parent. The parent has been missing for more than a year and makes no attempt to collect their spawn. The rest are being held for perfectly logical reasons like "their parents are convicted felons" or "we literally can't find this sneaky beaner to give him his kid back," or "this lady wants to live in a house with a convicted child molester."
You can only fault Trump for extrapolating the issue rather than causing it. Trump had no real control over ICE since he was elected and even then it is arguably his policies. ICE is still a fucked up organization that needs reform, and all immigration organizations that practice this I think. A firm hand is needed, but not a barbaric one. That all being said, the mass hysteria over this administration needs to fucking calm the fuck down. The whole world needs to calm the fuck down.
Dylan King
Until, not since his election.
Nathan Barnes
that's right. all americans need to be rounded up and killed for breaking their own laws
Depends if they can use it to outrage their audience enough to get them to power up their mobility lift and transport them to their mobility scooter to pick up their cell phone and call their government official to complain.
Gabriel Hernandez
Yeah like white men doing nothing while an invasion happens in their country.
Blake Carter
The only way this can be solved is by building the wall. The courts are packed because so many illegal immigrants sneak across the border, if fewer of them managed to sneak in then there would be more resources available to use on them. Which would allow for their court cases to be processed faster.
Julian Murphy
to claim asylum you have to be present in the US even illegally it's legal to claim asylum. there's different scales of illegality. i also find it rich that the "family values party" makes baby jails and purposely splits up families
Hunter Hall
the only way this can be solved is by throwing trump supporters in jail
