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  1. October 24, 2019

    ACLU Says New Data Reveals 1,500 More Migrant Separations

    The American Civil Liberties Union said on Thursday that the Trump administration had handed over data as part of a class action suit challenging its migrant family separation policy that shows more than 1,500 additional migrant children were separated from their families than previously known.

  2. September 21, 2019

    Family Separation At Border Is 'Child Abuse,' ACLU Tells Court

    The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday urged a California federal judge to rule that U.S. immigration officials are illegally separating parents from their children based on criminal histories instead of separating families only when a parent is deemed unfit or a danger to their child, saying its present policy is tantamount to "child abuse."

  3. September 12, 2019

    Feds Say Dozens Of Migrant Kids In Class Suit Still Separated

    The Trump administration still hasn't reunited more than two dozen migrant children who were separated from their parents in detention, more than a year after a California federal judge ordered the government to reunify the families and stop the practice, according to a joint status report.

  4. September 11, 2019

    US Defends Family Separations In Cases With Criminal Past

    The Trump administration defended its practice of separating immigrant children at the border from parents with criminal backgrounds, saying in response to a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union that its authority to do so has already been established.

  5. July 30, 2019

    Over 900 Migrant Families Separated In Past Year, ACLU Says

    The Trump administration has separated more than 900 immigrant parents and children since a California federal court prohibited it from doing so last year, and it is continuing the practice, the American Civil Liberties Union claimed Tuesday.

  6. June 06, 2019

    ACLU Wants Parents Separated From Kids Returned To US

    The American Civil Liberties Union asked a California federal court on Thursday to order the federal government to allow 21 parents who were separated from their children at the southwest border and then deported without them to legally return to the U.S. to apply for asylum and reunite with their kids.

  7. April 16, 2019

    ACLU Blasts 'Flawed' Trump Plan To Identify Migrant Children

    The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday ripped into the Trump administration's proposed plan for identifying potentially thousands of migrant children separated from their families at the southern border, telling a California federal court that the plan is ineffective and its time frame too drawn-out.

  8. March 11, 2019

    Families Separated At Border In 2017 Added To Class Action

    A California federal judge has expanded a class of parents whose children were taken from them at the southwestern border to include families separated as early as July 2017, weeks after a government watchdog report revealed that potentially thousands more children may have been separated before the Trump administration announced its enforcement policy.

  9. September 13, 2018

    Immigrants Separated From Children Reach Asylum Accord

    Immigrants in three companion cases challenging family separations in detention reached a settlement with the Trump administration Wednesday night such that about 1,000 parents will become eligible to pursue their asylum claims, according to advocates.

  10. August 03, 2018

    Calif. Judge Slams Gov't Over 'Orphaned' Migrant Children

    A California federal judge slammed the Trump administration during a hearing Friday for not being able to locate immigrant parents it deported without their children, crushing their hopes of reunification, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

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