{"id":610536,"date":"2018-08-04T12:47:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=610536"},"modified":"2018-08-04T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T18:47:47","slug":"the-government-hasnt-found-410-migrant-parents-deported-without-their-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/08\/the-government-hasnt-found-410-migrant-parents-deported-without-their-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"The government hasn\u2019t found 410 migrant parents deported without their kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_594021\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-594021\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CBP_McAllen_6-771x517.jpg\" alt=\"Children\" width=\"771\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CBP_McAllen_6-771x517.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CBP_McAllen_6-336x225.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CBP_McAllen_6-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CBP_McAllen_6-1170x784.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CBP_McAllen_6.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undocumented immigrant children at a U.S. Border Patrol processing center in McAllen, Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Federal officials have yet to explain how they\u2019ll reunite more than 400 migrant children with the parents who were deported without them \u2014 \u201cunacceptable\u201d news for the judge who had ordered the government to have done so already.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a court filing this week, the government said the burden for reunifying families should fall on the American Civil Liberties Union, the advocacy group that successfully sued to order the reunifications, though the government would \u201cfacilitate communications.\u201d The ACLU shot back that the government \u201cmust bear the ultimate burden of finding the parents\u201d because \u201cit was the government\u2019s unconstitutional separation practice that led to this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In addition to the 410 parents who\u2019ve been deported, the government has yet to locate 68 parents released into the United States.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article originally appeared in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/08\/03\/federal-government-deported-migrant-parents-400\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Texas Tribune<\/a>,\u00a0a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans and engages with them about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bickering over the reunifications continued at a court conference in San Diego on Friday, where U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw told Department of Justice lawyers he found their submission \u201cdisappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe reality is there are still close to 500 parents that have not been located. \u2026 All of this is the result of the government\u2019s separation, and then inability and failure to track and reunite,\u201d Sabraw said. \u201cFor every parent who is not located, there will be a permanently orphaned child. And that is 100 percent the responsibility of the administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was the first time Sabraw had publicly acknowledged the possibility that the government\u2019s family separation policy could leave some children without their parents permanently. That outcome would leave them in the care of the federal government, which cares for about 12,000 unaccompanied migrant children, some of them in shelters with troubling histories.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The ACLU and other advocacy groups have already mobilized to locate deported migrant parents, most of whom, ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt said, are in Honduras or Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The challenge for the nonprofit and advocacy groups searching for them is the little information they have about those parents\u2019 whereabouts. For some parents, Gelernt said, advocates have only a street listed, with no number. For others, the only address information listed is a city of several hundred thousand people.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The government, Gelernt said, has further files on the parents \u2014 including, in many cases, a contact phone number \u2014 that it has yet to produce. The government has resisted providing further information; doing so, DOJ attorney Scott Stewart said, would be \u201cburdensome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But Sabraw told the government to provide that information to the ACLU by Aug. 10, and made it clear that he expects further efforts from the federal officials.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis responsibility, of course, is 100 percent on the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The judge asked the government to designate one point person to oversee the process, and Stewart demurred, saying that\u2019s something the government \u201cshould look into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Then, the judge asked the ACLU to appoint a steering committee to facilitate its efforts. The ACLU, Gelernt replied, has already done that.<script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.texastribune.org\/pixel\/dot.min.29c708b3d0da5d17a725.js\" integrity=\"sha384-8Xwf\/TlQnmHiajg1t3dn8w4qlF1rmV33o5NAQVXYu0T2q3rHV5579zrSmRjh+XnM\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" data-tt-canonical=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/08\/03\/federal-government-deported-migrant-parents-400\/\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For every migrant parent federal officials fail to locate, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said, &#8220;there will be a permanently orphaned child.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[140,234],"class_list":["post-610536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-border-and-immigration","tag-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}