Judge Rules in Favor of Trump Administration on Family Separations at Border
BY MIMI NGUYEN LY January 15, 2020
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A U.S. federal judge ruled that the Trump administration is operating within its authority when separating families who enter the country illegally at the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego, California, said in a 26-page decision (pdf) on Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were “generally exercising their discretion to separate families at the border” consistent with immigrants’ “rights to family integrity and the court’s orders.”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argued that border officials were separating families over minor infringements such as traffic violations or previous illegal border crossings. The organization asked the judge in July 2019 to rule on whether the government was justified in separating 911 children during the first year after the judge halted the general practice in June 2018.
Sabraw wrote: “Consistent with the court’s class certification orders and preliminary injunction, defendants [ICE officials] have continued to separate parents and children crossing the border when there are concerns about parentage, the parent has a criminal history or communicable disease (or long-term medical need), or the parent is unfit or presents a danger to his or her child or others.”
He added that the court has not seen any evidence to show that the government has “returned to systematically separating families at the border.”
Sabraw also denied the ACLU’s request to set new guidelines to use before separating families and to set up an independent monitor to supervise immigration officials, writing that such a request “is an invitation that is potentially massive in scope, invades an area that is particularly within the province of the Executive Branch to secure the nation’s border, and goes beyond this court’s class certification and preliminary injunction orders.”
Not tired of winning
Appointing conservative judges puts pressure in ALL judges. They do not want to be overturned in a higher court.
That sure is refreshing to learn and a judge in San Diego no less.
“The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argued that border officials were separating families over minor infringements such as traffic violations or previous illegal border crossings.”
Sorry, I truly do not consider previous ILLEGAL border crossings as a minor infringement.