Judge Dana M. Sabraw

An asylum-seeking boy Central American boy runs after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego in December 2018.

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Judge Says Government May Have To Reunite More Migrant Families Separated At Border

11:26pm March 08, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

A federal judge rejects the government's argument that identifying and reuniting families separated before the zero tolerance policy was announced is too burdensome.

Families with young children protest the separation of immigrant families with a sit-in at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington last week.

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Federal Judge Calls Government Plan To Reunify Migrant Families 'Disappointing'

7:37pm August 03, 2018

The Trump administration had argued that the ACLU should take responsibility for locating parents who were deported back to Central America without their children.

Natalia Oliveira da Silva and her daughter, Sara, 5, hug at a Catholic Charities facility in San Antonio, TX. They were separated in late May.

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Government, Immigration Advocates Continue Court Clash Over Family Reunification

9:21pm August 02, 2018

by Richard Gonzales

A federal judge in San Diego will hold a hearing Friday to discuss the government's progress on meeting a now-expired deadline to end family separations.

A protester outside a closed gate at the Port of Entry facility in Fabens, Texas.

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Trump Administration Seeks More Time To Reunify Migrant Families

3:54pm July 06, 2018

by Richard Gonzales

Facing a court deadline to reunite families separated at the border, the government described efforts to verify relationships and assess parents' "fitness" to claim their children.