A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally, and must work to reunite those families that had been split up in custody.
United States District Court Judge Dana Sabraw granted the American Civil Liberties Union a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed over the family separations.
More than 2,300 migrant children were separated from their parents after the Trump administration began a “zero tolerance” policy in early May, seeking to prosecute all adults who crossed the border illegally, including those traveling with children.
Border Patrol Agents Detain Migrants Near US-Mexico Border MISSION, TX – JUNE 12: U.S. Border Patrol agents take into custody a father and son from Honduras near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 near Mission, Texas. The asylum seekers were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing center for possible separation. U.S. border authorities are executing the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants’ country of origin would no longer qualify them for political-asylum status.
The ACLU had sued on behalf of a mother and her then 6-year-old daughter, who were separated after arriving last November in the United States to seek asylum and escape religious persecution in Democratic Republic of Congo.
While they were reunited in March, the ACLU is pursuing class-action claims on behalf of other immigrants.
Trump issued an executive order to end the family separations on June 20, but the government has yet to reunite about 2,000 children with their parents.
Before the preliminary injunction ruling, the U.S. government urged Sabraw not to require that it stop separating and quickly reunite migrant families after they illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump’s executive order last week “largely” addressed those goals.
Y’all, this lady is going to win the Democratic nomination for Flake’s seat in the Senate. Polls are showing that Martha McSally has pulled ahead of Kelli Ward to win the Republican nomination. This seat is a must have to flip the Senate. We need to support Kyrsten all we can. I’ll tell you more about her later. Just want to get this out there.
https://twitter.com/kyrstensinema/status/1012030190422142977
https://twitter.com/RevDrBarber/status/1012135623631818753
This is true. It’s got to be the House and the Senate. Failure is not an option.
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1012133532221825032
Blood pressure spike… How I hate this little asshole, DT JR. No words can describe.
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/1012147974128873473
https://twitter.com/jakhjakhjakh/status/1012071608628867072
https://twitter.com/lynnv378/status/1012037042086309889
https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1012055995433005057
This just reeks of entitlement and arrogance. Why does he think we have elections?
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https://twitter.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1012099883984093185
https://twitter.com/SteveWestly/status/1012123729780969473
Iconic.
https://twitter.com/common/status/1012107338130472960
Kennedy fucked us over. He hates black and brown people. He gave that mofo racist sob a gift. He handed it to him on a silver platter. Got dammit!
Truth.
Lord! This was pre-meditated, SG2. Kennedy planned this retirement.
Our country is going down in ashes.
The game just changed, to be sure.
The next time I hear some damn fool blathering about “civility” I might explode.
https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1012014325756825601
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1012058569796177920
https://twitter.com/havewhatusay/status/1012083887772700672
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Adam Jentleson 🎈 (@AJentleson) Tweeted:
The first thing all Dems need to do is get a firm mental grip on the new rules.
McConnell annihilated every norm of the nomination process to deny Garland a hearing or vote and steal the Court for a generation.
If you play by the old rules, you’re playing a fool’s game. https://twitter.com/AJentleson/status/1012042524561690625?s=17
Anthony Kennedy GOT DAMMIT!
From a poster on another blog about Kennedy:
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1012048263854387200
https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1011991303599607808
https://twitter.com/jamieson/status/1011973175016591360
Say goodbye to checks and balances among the three branches of government.
https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/1012034206023598080
Michelle Goldberg: We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners
But, there’s no difference, I was told.
Of course, President Hillary Clinton, too, would have nominated the KKKeebler Elf to be Attorney General of the United States.
THEY.WILL.NEVER.BE.FORGIVEN.
Being CIVIL to these muthaphuckas?
PHUCK.OUTTA.HERE.
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Jeff Sessions Jokes About Family Separations Amid Controversy Over U.S. Border Policy
“We hear views on television today that are on the lunatic fringe, frankly.”
By Nick Visser
Attorney General Jeff Sessions joked about family separations during a speaking event in Los Angeles on Tuesday, just days after the Trump administration retreated from its policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S. border.
Sessions, speaking at an event for the conservative Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, defended the Justice Department’s zero tolerance immigration policy meant to prosecute as many people as possible for illegally crossing the border. Despite widespread criticism of the policy, Sessions lambasted the “radicalized” left and joked that those attacking the policy were hypocrites who would gladly separate families that infiltrated their “gated communities.”
Joe Jackson has passed.
RIP
Gave us the most talented family in musical history.
Whatever his faults, he gave that to THE WORLD.
TRUTH!
https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1011982019742633984
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/1011983614312054785
https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/1011790457930747904
https://twitter.com/havewhatusay/status/1011974736665022464
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/1011972199174074368
This is exactly where the SCOTUS wants to take us back to.
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1011947067252576258
https://twitter.com/deray/status/1011923263314956289
This is why we can’t have nice things….
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1011912045229494272
That’s Bill for you. Sucking up to “the other side”, the story of his life. The country elected a Democrat in 1992 and by 1994 he was a Republican. I wish he would go hide somewhere.
https://twitter.com/AlBoeNEWS/status/1011957558691749888
GOOD.
He MURDERED THAT CHILD.
https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/1011940185498677249
https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/1011950954026033152
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1011966263055220736
Got to have a quick chat with @Ocasio2018 before she headed to the border last weekend, and asked her about this civility business: “I find it very interesting that we have now interpreted holding people accountable as negative.” https://t.co/JFI2CK5be0— Bridget Read (@bridgetgillard) June 25, 2018
About the young lady who beat Crowley:. I see some folks ‘ fretting’ about what her victory means. How can we have someone so ‘young’.
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Ted Kennedy died in 2009. She used to work for him. That means, before she was 20 years old, she was bright enough, and focused enough, to get a job in a Senator’s office from a state that she didn’t live in. She was an active young person.
She didn’t just fall off the turnip truck.
From her wikipedia page (which didn’t exist until last night, I think)
Cue my non-existent violin.
The GOP’s efforts to scale back food stamps could have a drastic effect on the white working-class voters who voted for Trump. https://t.co/918nDI5zt7— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 27, 2018
https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1011815469928419328
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1011816201314586624
https://twitter.com/DKElections/status/1011818001270702080
https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1011817989270671360
I think that Mosby supporters THOUGHT that they knew what she has been up against. But, the police corruption trial over the past months has shown the depth of her fight.
https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1011820624661098496
😄😄
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1011822818378571776
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1011802691142496256
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1011408903530336257
Uh huh 😒
https://twitter.com/jtlevy/status/1011372140749352961
https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/1011435935383384065
Phuck Outta Here 😠
https://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/1011258058973032448
https://twitter.com/mirandayaver/status/1011328236335312896
Good Morning,Everyone 😄😄😄
Happy HUMP Day, Everyone!