LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in San Diego issued an order on Monday barring officials from deporting newly reunited immigrant families for up to one week.
District Judge Dana Sabraw was responding to papers filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) expressing concern that the government planned to carry out quick deportations.
Attorneys said newly reunited families should be given time to talk through whether they plan to seek asylum and mull over the possible ramifications for both the parents and the children.
Sabraw’s order stays in place through July 23, giving the federal government one week to respond to the ACLU’s concerns.
“The judge once again made clear that the government unconstitutionally took these children away and now must do everything in its power to reunite them safely and by the deadline,” Lee Gelernt, of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement.
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Sabraw earlier gave officials a July 26 deadline to return children over age five who were separated from their families at the border with Mexico.
The estimated number of children separated at the border under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy has fluctuated, but as many as 3,000 children are believed to have been affected.
Senior administration figures, from Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to the president himself, have been heavily criticized for lying or giving otherwise misleading statements on child separation.
