Federal judge orders most family separations at border to end @CNNPolitics https://cnn.it/2lELfUC
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"the context and circumstances in which this practice of family separation were being implemented support a finding that Plaintiffs have a likelihood of success on their due process claim"
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"the practice of separating these families was implemented without any effective system or procedure for 1 tracking the children after they were separated from their parents, 2 enabling communication between the parents and their children after separation, and 3 reuniting...
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... the parents and children after the parents are returned to immigration custody following completion of their criminal sentence. This is a startling reality"
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"Money, important documents, and automobiles, to name a few, are routinely catalogued, stored, tracked and produced upon a detainees’ release, at all levels—state and federal, citizen and alien. Yet, the government has no system in place to keep track of, provide effective...
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... communication with, and promptly produce alien children. The unfortunate reality is that under the present system migrant children are not accounted for with the same efficiency and accuracy as property. Certainly, that cannot satisfy the requirements of due process."
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"This practice of separating class members from their minor children, and failing to reunify class members with those children, without any showing the parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child is sufficient to find Plaintiffs have a likelihood of success...
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... on their due process claim. When combined with the manner in which that practice is being implemented [...] a finding of likelihood of success is assured."
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"A practice of this sort implemented in this way is likely to be “so egregious, so outrageous, that it may fairly be said to shock the contemporary conscience,” that it [does] not comport with traditional ideas of fair play and decency.”
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