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Federal Judge: Trump Admin Must End Family Separations & Reunite Children

HeadlineJun 27, 2018

Hours after the Supreme Court issued its ruling upholding the so-called Muslim travel ban, Federal Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego ruled immigration officials must stop separating immigrant children from their parents at the border and that migrant children already separated must be reunited with their parents. The ruling says all children under the age of 5 must be reunited with their parents within 14 days, and all children 5 and older must be reunited with their parents within 30 days. The ruling does not require the Trump administration to stop prosecuting people for crossing the border. More than 2,000 children remain separated from their parents, jailed in detention centers across the country. Immigration advocates are warning the Trump administration has no clear plan for how to reunite them with their parents, some of whom have already been deported. On Tuesday, hundreds protested Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s visit to Los Angeles. Twenty-five protesters, including clergy members, were arrested outside a federal courthouse Sessions was visiting. Young mothers and their children also protested Sessions’ speech to the Criminal Justice Foundation’s annual luncheon. This is protester Nicole Sabourian.

Nicole Sabourian: “I have an 18-month-old, and imagining these kids separated from their families is just more than anything I can fathom. And it’s terrorism. It’s torture. … And I can’t do that much, but I can show up, is all that I can do as a mother of a toddler.”

We’ll have more on these two rulings later in the broadcast.

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