Federal judge orders Trump to reunite migrant families within 14 days!
 

All children under 5 torn from their parents at the border must be reunited within 14 days, older children within 30 days.

Federal judge orders reunification of migrant families

Trump administration officials scrambled Tuesday to craft a response to a federal judge’s order requiring immigration agencies to quickly begin reunifying migrant families that have been separated as a result of a zero-tolerance policy — a decision that has only prompted more internal confusion surrounding what the judge called a “chaotic” system.

Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California granted a preliminary injunction sought by the American Civil Liberties Union. He said all children must be reunited with their families within 30 days, allowing just 14 days for the return of children under 5 to their parents. He also ordered that parents be allowed to speak by phone with their children within 10 days.

Teams of attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and the Justice Department were analyzing the judge’s ruling Tuesday as they tried to determine how to respond. A Justice Department spokesman declined to say if the agency planned to appeal the decision.

The ruling is the latest complication in a controversy that has already proved politically perilous for President Trump, who last week issued an executive order ending the policy of forced separation, replacing it with indefinite family detention. Still, about 2,000 children remain split from their parents. The government had urged Sabraw not to grant the nationwide injunction, saying the president’s order, which followed days of bipartisan outcry, had resolved the concerns animating the suit.

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