Most Families Will Be Reunited By Court-Ordered Deadline In What Judge Calls A ‘Remarkable Achievement’
But U.S. District Court Judge Dana M. Sabraw, who has been overseeing the Trump administration's efforts to reunite families, is not pleased with the government’s inability to say how many migrant parents have been deported, or released from custody by ICE into the U.S. Meanwhile, reunited families are left asking, "What's next?"
The Washington Post:
Government On Track To Reunite Most Families, But Judge Chides ‘Troubling’ Process
The Trump administration said Tuesday it is on track to reunite the majority of separated migrant families ahead of a July 26 court deadline, but workers are still sorting through case files to determine whether hundreds of parents were deported without their children. Government attorneys told U.S. District Court Judge Dana M. Sabraw, who mandated the reunifications last month and has overseen the process, that the government has given 1,012 parents their children back so far, out of 2,551 who were separated. Hundreds more families are due to be reunited by the judge’s Thursday deadline, the attorneys said, which Sabraw praised as “a remarkable achievement.” (Miroff, 7/24)
The Washington Post:
Reunited: What Comes Next For Parents And Kids Separated By Trump's Immigration Crackdown
Two by two, they came through the double doors of the shuttered retirement home: mothers tightly clutching their children, fathers holding fast to small hands. They had been among the more than 2,500 parents stripped of their children and imprisoned after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. But now, after outrage and protests and a class-action lawsuit, the Trump administration was being forced to reunite the families ahead of a court-ordered deadline Thursday. (Miller, 7/24)
The Washington Post Fact Checker:
No, HHS Secretary Azar Did Not Say ‘Zero Tolerance’ Children Received A ‘Great Act Of American Generosity’
Equity Forward, an abortion-rights group, placed what it claimed was a “heavy six-figure” television buy via an affiliate that attacks Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar for comments made during an interview on July 10 with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. The group, as part of its HHS Watch project, has increasingly highlighted the department’s role in the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy of separating children from families seeking asylum at the U.S. border. (Kessler, 7/25)