The American Civil Liberties Union has been leading an effort to contact deported parents to try to reunify them with their child.
as new information came in and as reunifications began under a federal court order.
More than eight months after a judge in San Diego ordered the government to reunify separated families, information has continued to trickle in about the scope and aftermath of family separations. More than 2,800 children were separated from a parent crossing the border and placed in US custody, and it was clear early on that hundreds of those kids had a parent who had been deported. In Wednesday's filing, the government offered a concrete number.
The American Civil Liberties Union has been leading the effort to locate deported parents outside of the United States. Those parents are given a choice about whether to reunify with their child where they are, or waive reunification, which allows their child to stay in the United States and pursue asylum claims.in June 2018 that halted most family separations at the border, finding that the ACLU was likely to succeed in arguing that the separations were unlawful.
Nearly all of the more than 2,800 separated children identified in the class action before Sabraw have either been reunified with a parent or released to a sponsor, according to the government's latest status report. Sabraw is weighing a recent request by the ACLU toof separated families covered by his order to include situations where a child separated from a parent had already been released from US custody — typically to a sponsor — by the time he entered his injunction in June.
Lee Gelernt, the lead ACLU attorney, told BuzzFeed News that the final tally of separated parents and kids — and the number of parents deported without first getting the choice to reunify — could increase, possibly by an"enormous number," if Sabraw grants their request to expand the class.
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