Excellent clarifications offered by several Kossacks especially MTmofo & Rugbymom. Regarding a lawyer for the federal government telling the judge she can’t meet the deadline set for a status update on 100 immigrant children under the age of 5. Hearing set for Monday.
The Trump administration says it needs more time to reunite some families separated at the border because officials are having difficulty matching children with their parents, according to federal court records filed Thursday.
In the documents, the administration said it may take longer than anticipated to establish that an adult is, in fact, the parent of a particular child and said that in those cases, the agency may not meet court-ordered deadlines.
At a court hearing Friday afternoon about the government's request, the judge did not immediately rule, instead ordering the administration to provide additional information to lawyers for the parents over the weekend to see if they can work together to reunify families within the timeframes already set out by the judge.
When an attorney for the Justice Department said that they may have identified more separated children than would fall under the precise terms of the court’s order — there are exceptions to reunification if a parent has a criminal history, for instance — US District Judge Dana Sabraw urged the government to be “over-inclusive" and to act within the "spirit" of his order.
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