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Federal judge halts family border separations, orders reunification
New York: A federal judge in California has ruled that US migration agents can no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally, and must work to reunite those families that had been split up in…
- Jonathan Stempel
- Reuters, Agencies, The Canberra Times
United States District Court Judge Dana Sabraw granted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed over the family separations.
He ordered all families already separated be reunited within 30 days, and said children under 5 must be reunited with their…