April 16, 2019
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.
March 11, 2019
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.
September 13, 2018
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.
August 03, 2018
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.
July 26, 2018
The Trump administration said it expected to have reunified over 1,800 migrant children with the families they were separated from at the U.S. border by the end of the day Thursday, except for 711 kids whose parents are "not eligible," according to a California federal court filing.
July 16, 2018
A California federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting immigrant adults who are part of a class action of individuals recently reunited with their children after immigration agents separated them at the border.
July 12, 2018
The Trump administration said Thursday that it had reunited all eligible immigrant children younger than 5 with their parents, complying with a California federal court's order halting the government's policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S. border several days late.
July 11, 2018
More than half of the children recently separated from a parent at the border who have been identified as covered under a class action, and who are eligible to be promptly reunited, were expected to be back with a guardian by a court-imposed deadline, the Trump administration told a California federal court Tuesday.
July 09, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice told a California federal court Monday that it will have reunited only about half of the immigrant children under age five with their families by Tuesday after they were separated from their parents at the U.S. border, missing a court-ordered deadline.
July 06, 2018
A California federal judge on Friday kept intact the deadlines for the Trump administration to reunite families who have been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, despite the government's protests that more time was needed to confirm parentage through DNA testing.