{"id":1603,"date":"2018-06-27T18:17:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/27\/federal-judge-rules-that-separated-families-must-be-reunited\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T18:17:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:17:59","slug":"federal-judge-rules-that-separated-families-must-be-reunited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law888.com\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Rules that Separated Families Must be Reunited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On May 12, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a &#8216;no tolerance&#8217; policy for migrants entering the United States illegally, referring each case for prosecution.\u00a0 The prosecutions often resulted in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law888.com\/effects-of-restrictive-immigration-policies-under-spotlight\/\">child separation<\/a>, placing the no tolerance policy under withering media scrutiny, leading to a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).\u00a0 Last night, a ruling from a federal\u00a0 judge granted the ACLU an injunction preventing further family separations.\u00a0 The order also requires the United States government to reunite all families separated by the policy.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/legal-document\/ms-l-v-ice-order-granting-plaintiffs-motion-classwide-preliminary-injunction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The injunction stipulates that the government has 14 days to reunite children under 5 with their parents and 30 days to reunite older children.\u00a0 United States District Court for the Southern District of California Judge Dana M. Sabraw, a George W. Bush appointee, found the ACLU lawsuit likely to succeed on its merits.\u00a0 The ACLU lawsuit argues that families separated at the border are not receiving a constitutionally guaranteed right of due process under the law.<\/p>\n<p>According to news reports, more than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents, and it appears that in some cases the government has no coherent plans on how to reunite them with their parents.\u00a0 The Trump administration had sent mixed signals before the ruling.\u00a0 On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/25\/us\/politics\/border-officials-suspend-handing-over-migrant-families-to-prosecutors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25th<\/a>, border security officials stated that they had stopped referring border-crossing families for prosecution.\u00a0 That same day, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that zero tolerance was still in effect and that the policy was unchanged.\u00a0 As of this writing, it is not yet known how the administration will comply with new court order.<\/p>\n<p>In the recent months, immigration news has been coming too fast for most people to keep up with.\u00a0 The Law Offices of Scott Warmuth continuously monitors immigration news stories to determine possible changes to the laws that could affect our clients.\u00a0 We offer a robust <a href=\"https:\/\/law888.com\/immigration-lawyer\/\">immigration legal service<\/a>.\u00a0 For a <a href=\"https:\/\/law888.com\/contact-us\/\">free consultation<\/a>, call us today at <strong>888-517-9888<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, a ruling from a federal\u00a0 judge granted the ACLU an injunction preventing further family separations.\u00a0 The order also requires the United States government to reunite all families separated by the policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law888.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}