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1000s More Could Join ACLU Lawsuit over Trump Family Separation Policy

HeadlineMar 11, 2019

Dana Sabraw, the federal judge who, last June, ordered the Trump administration to stop separating migrant families at the border and reunite nearly 3,000 children with their parents, ruled Friday that families who were separated at the border as early as July 2017 should also be included in his order and be allowed to join a class-action lawsuit brought by the ACLU. The order previously only included families whose children were in government custody on June 26, 2018. Sabraw cited a January Health and Human Services report that acknowledged that thousands more children were likely ripped from their parents, starting much earlier than stated, but that the government failed to properly track those children.

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