La despedida Alejandra Juarez (left) says goodbye to her children, Pamela and Estela, at the Orlando International Airport to self-deport to Mexico in a move that would split up their family. AP
“The judge is refusing to let the government off the hook for the mess it made.
SAN DIEGO — A federal judge on Friday said the Trump administration was solely responsible for reuniting hundreds of children who remain separated from the parents after being split at the US-Mexico border, puncturing a government plan that put the onus on the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
According to government figures submitted to the court Thursday, 410 of the 572 immigrant children still under government care have parents — or another associated adult -— outside of the United States.
“Many of these parents were removed from the country without their child; all of this is the result of the government’s separation and then inability and failure to track and reunite,” US District Judge Dana Sabraw told a telephonic status conference from her San Diego office, according to US media reports.
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“And the reality is that for every parent who is not located, there will be a permanent orphaned child and that is 100 percent the responsibility of the administration.”
Sabraw ordered that the government put someone in charge of the “significant undertaking” to find the adults. So far, only 13 parents have been located.
“The judge is refusing to let the government off the hook for the mess it made,” said lawyer Lee ACLU, which sued the government over the separations which resulted from the “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
The government, meanwhile, said in a court-ordered joint status report filed Thursday that the ACLU should use its “considerable resources and their network of law firms, non-government organization, volunteers and others” to find deported parents and orchestrate reunification.
The rights group said it had made clear that it would help however it could, but that “the Government must bear the ultimate burden of finding the parents.” AP and AFP
