By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Saturday, July 28, 2018
The judge overseeing the chaos from President Trump’s zero-tolerance border policy gave the government good marks for its efforts to reunify families, saying that for the parents the government has control over “that process has been completed.â€
But the judge, in a court hearing Friday, said there are still hundreds of other parents who weren’t in government custody who must now be tracked down. He didn’t blame the government for failing to reunify them, since they aren’t in government custody, but he did say they are the government’s responsibility.
“The government is at fault for losing several hundred parents in the process, and that’s where we go next is identifying and finding those parents who have been removed without children or who are in the interior and not presently located,†Judge Dana Sabraw said.
He praised the government for meeting his strict deadlines, set in June, that forced agencies to scramble to reunite young children with parents by July 10, and the rest of the juveniles by this week.
He said the government managed to reconnect 1,820 children.
“The government can only reunify families over which it has control. and it has control over the families, the parents and children, in its custody,†Judge Sabraw said.
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