Judge forces Trump admin to identify separated children within 6 months

[Lion Heart 15,041]

A federal judge ruled Thursday that The Trump administration has six months to identify potentially thousands of children officials separated from their families at the country’s southern border.

The government initially said it could take up to two years to identify as many as 47,000 children who were separated from their parents and taken into custody between July 1, 2017 and June 26, 2018.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which is suing the administration over the separations, objected to the extended timeframe. 

The ruling gives administration until Oct. 25, although the order from Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego noted the timeline may be modified for a "showing of good cause."

“This order shows that the court continues to recognize the gravity of this situation,” said ACLU’s Lee Gelernt, lead attorney in the family separation lawsuit.

HHS has worked since June 2018 to reunite the more than 2,700 children  separated under the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which has largely been finished.

Then in January, an internal government watchdog reported that thousands more children may have been separated during an influx that began in 2017, even before the “zero tolerance” policy was enacted.

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Under zero tolerance, children brought across the border illegally were separated from their parents, deemed “unaccompanied,” and detained by HHS in separate facilities sometimes hundreds of miles from their parents.

The department’s inspector general said the precise number of separated children was unknown, and HHS officials initially argued it would be too difficult to identify all of them.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/440771-judge-trump-administration-has-six-months-to-identify-separated-children

[illusionism 73]

How are they supposed to identify children who came over the border with no ID, maybe not even with their own parents or family and no passport? Should completely close the border until we can figure out a plan for this mess. 

[Sepsami 21,057]

taking kids away from their parents is criminal tbh It can actually be a traumatising experience for them 

[PartySick 174,108]

2 hours ago, illusionism said:

How are they supposed to identify children who came over the border with no ID, maybe not even with their own parents or family and no passport? Should completely close the border until we can figure out a plan for this mess. 

No.

Trump does not get to cause a mess and then use that mess as justification behind making another mess.

Find the kids'families, keep our border open, and stop being a inhumane bag of d*cks. That's his only option.

[Shipper 13,114]

3 hours ago, illusionism said:

 

Why is it so hard to just detain the families TOGETHER!?!  

Why must they separate them? I know the reason they give out is because they think the parent is dangerous or could cause harm to the kid,  but cmon that reason cannot account for the huge number of kids and families they separated. 

 

Oh and sorry for quoting you.  I cant unquote u now.  

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3 hours ago, illusionism said:

How are they supposed to identify children who came over the border with no ID, maybe not even with their own parents or family and no passport? Should completely close the border until we can figure out a plan for this mess. 

There are many ways to keep records on the family without having their ID

Also, they could have detained the families together

It is a crime to take a childs mother and let the kid live without a mother! even if the mother committed a  crime, the child should know who his mother is.

[Reginald 13,841]

All facts, no shade : The US has some very bad karma.

I wish no ill towards my home country  but, honestly, our government treats human lives as meaningless and disposable  Our govt is  literally creating a new generation of would-be terrorists by destroying lives and families like this, all around the world.