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A federal judge wants an update on Monday on government efforts to reunify children separated from their families at the US-Mexico border, after he demanded more cooperation from the Trump administration.
Judge Dana Sabraw wrote that the US Department of Health and Human Services “either doesn’t understand the court’s order, or is acting in defiance of the order.†He set a detailed timeline to complete the reunifications by July 26 and called for a status conference with government attorneys and American Civil Liberties Union.
The Justice Department responded to Sabraw’s criticism, saying that the Trump administration’s efforts at reunification of some 2,500 children separated from their parents were “committed†and “extraordinary.†The government didn’t disclose whether any families were reunited.
The DOJ filing also said HHS will continue to abbreviate its typical protocol for confirming guardianship to meet a July 19 deadline of parental verification for all separated children, guidelines that are set to otherwise prevent false parentage claims and human trafficking.
The focus is on children ages 5 to 17, after the government reported that it had complied with an earlier order to first concentrate on kids under 5.