Federal judge orders reunification of parents and children, end to family separations at border

(CNN) A federal judge in California late Tuesday ordered a halt to most family separations at the US border and the reunification of all families that have been separated in the first major rebuke to the Trump administration during ongoing furor over family separations at the border. The judge's order does not mean the Trump administration must stop prosecuting people who cross the border illegally. "This ruling is an enormous victory for parents and children who thought they may never see each other again. "The news media is saturated with stories of immigrant families being separated at the border. Seventeen states have now filed a complaint against the Federal Government challenging the family separation practice," Sabraw wrote.

Federal judge orders end of family separations at US border

A federal judge in California on Tuesday ordered the U.S. Border Patrol to stop separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border and to reunite families already separated within 30 days. Sabraw, an appointee of President George W. Bush, also required the government to provide phone contact between parents and their children within 10 days. Also Tuesday, 17 states, including New York and California, sued the Trump administration to force it to reunite children and parents. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told Congress on Tuesday that his department still had custody of 2,047 immigrant children separated from their parents at the border. Tens of thousands of Central American migrants traveling with children -- as well as children traveling alone -- are caught at the U.S.-Mexico border each year.

Migrant separations: US judge orders family reunifications

as informed in More than 2,300 migrant children have been separated from their parents since early May under the Trump administration's controversial policy, which seeks to criminally prosecute anyone crossing the border illegally. Last week President Trump issued an executive order promising to "keep families together " in migrant detention centres. "We don't like to see families separated," Mr Trump said. Also on Tuesday, the US health department's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) confirmed that 2,047 migrant children were currently in the care of the agency. ORR director Scott Lloyd refused to say whether the agency was still receiving migrant children who had been separated from their families.

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