Judge Orders Trump Administration to Halt Separations and Reunify Families ASAP
A federal judge on Tuesday night ordered the Trump administration to halt all family separations and reunify all children taken from their parents as part of President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy within the next 30 days.
U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of California Dana Sabraw ordered the injunction stopping the family separation process, writing in his ruling:
There is no genuine dispute that the Government was not prepared to accommodate the mass influx of separated children. Measures were not in place to provide for communication between governmental agencies responsible for detaining parents and those responsible for housing children, or to provide for ready communication between separated parents and children. There was no reunification plan in place, and families have been separated for months.
Sabraw’s ruling mandates that migrant families detained at the U.S. border may not be separated if the parents pose no threat to the children. He also wrote that parents may not be deported out of the U.S. without their children.