translated from Spanish: USA: Judge extends meeting separate immigrant families

SAN DIEGO (AP) – a federal judge who ordered that more than 2,700 children were reunited with their parents has expanded this measure to possibly thousands of children further apart from their parents before in the f Birmingham during the Government of President Donald Trump.Dana Sabraw ruled Friday that his authority applies to all parents separated at the border July 1, 2017 or after that date. Previously his order applied only to parents whose children were in custody from June 26, 2018.Sabraw said that his decision to respond to a report issued in January by an internal body of supervision of the Department of health and human services (HHS for its) acronym in English), according to which thousands more children perhaps were separated from mid-2017. The inspector general of the Department said that the exact number is unknown. The judge said he will weigh the next steps on March 28. The first could be to identify to separated families, no easy task because the Government lacked at the time of a proper monitoring system. The Government has argued that it would be difficult to identify in the extreme to the families and that the child will suffer emotional damage if they removed them from the homes in which they were accommodated.
The lawyer for the Department of Justice, Scott Stewart, told the judge last month that a “significant burden” would add families and “spoil everything” once the Government “did everything to correct the bad”.

Sabra disagreed in his 14-page order.” The hallmark of a civilized society is seen in how trafficking people and those within their borders”, he wrote. “That defendants might have to change course and take extra effort to addressing these issues does not change the definition of unfair; only serves to enhance the undeniable importance of this effort and why it is necessary (and valuable) “.” A spokesman for the Justice Department did not respond in time to a request to make statements on the subject. The American Union of civil liberties (ACLU for its acronym in English), which filed the lawsuit against the practice of separating families, applauded the decision.
“The Court left clear that possibly thousands of children’s lives are at stake and that Trump Government cannot simply ignore the devastation it has caused,” said Lee Gelernt, ACLU lawyer.

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