Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at US border for 8 years

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Source: Associated Press

BY ELLIOT SPAGAT
Updated 1:34 PM PST, December 8, 2023

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn’t ruled out if voters return him to the White House next year.

U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw tentatively approved a court settlement in October between the Justice Department and families represented by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU says no one formally objected, clearing the way to end the case nearly seven years after it was filed.

Sabraw, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, ordered an end to separations in June 2018, six days after then-President Donald Trump halted them on his own amid intense international backlash. The judge also ordered that the government reunite children with their parents within 30 days, setting off a mad scramble because government databases weren’t linked. Children had been dispersed to shelters across the country that didn’t know who their parents were or how to find them.

Under the settlement, the type of “zero-tolerance” policy under which the Trump administration separated more than 5,000 children from parents who were arrested for illegally entering the country would be prohibited until December 2031.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/border-separated-families-trump-biden-settlement-2720c59c1873a9c3fc53da1aad4d1a80

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Suck on that one, Dumpf.

[drray23]

1. If trump is reelected that won't matter. Its not like Trump will respect the rule of law anyway.nt.

[Escurumbele]

2. For 8 years? Why not for ever? I don't get it!

[Igel]

4. I read it differently.

"For the next year years, a federal judge prohibited separating minors from parents ..."

Not "A federal judged prohibited the practice of, for an up to eight year stint, separating minors from parents."

As a psycholinguist/syntactician would ask, high attachment or low attachment. That pesky temporal preposition phrase .... highly ambiguous. (I suspect that the ambiguity is dialectal in some sense--register, style, sociolinguistic ... but GenLing doesn't like that kind of non-formal approach.)

[slightlv]

3. I agree, if *rump is elected,

he'll do what he wants to do... courts be damned. What are the courts going to do to him, anyway? He just throws up a middle finger and dares them to try something now.

So many children will never be reunited with their families. I consider that a cruel and despicable tragedy. *rump ought to be brought up on charges of crimes against humanity, AFAIC.

And I still would like to know where they moved all those young girls... moving them in the middle of the night when they thought no one was watching. I wouldn't put it past *rump and his people (like Miller, Bannon, etc) to have engaged in human trafficking. Especially as close as he is to Saudi Arabia. There, it's not necessarily sex trafficking as it is slave labor.

[Igel]

5. How many court injunctions did he ignore from '17 to early '21?

Please, enlighten me.

He ceased and desisted or his minders reined him in.

[2naSalit]

6. Suck on that, steven miller.