Seventeen states have now filed suit against the Trump administration to require children separated from their parents under the administration's new "zero tolerance" policy to be reunited with those parents immediately. Via the Associated Press:
“The administration’s practice of separating families is cruel, plain and simple,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said in an emailed statement. “Every day, it seems like the administration is issuing new, contradictory policies and relying on new, contradictory justifications. But we can’t forget: the lives of real people hang in the balance.”
A full list of states involved in the suit, which has been filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, can be found here.
Despite administration claims to the contrary, the Trump administration is continuing the practice of refusing to even tell refugee parents where their children have been taken, and federal officials are using family separation as a leverage in intimidating asylum-seekers into giving up their legal rights, promising to reunite them with their children only if they agree to voluntary deportation.