BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in California late Tuesday [6-26-18] ordered a halt to most family separations at the US border and the reunification of all families that have been separated in the first major rebuke to the Trump administration during ongoing furor over family separations at the border. The court order specifically requires federal officials to stop detaining parents apart from their minor children, absent a determination the parent is unfit or the parent declines reunification; reunify all parents with their minor children who are under the age of 5 within 14 days and reunify all parents with their minor children age 5 and older within 30 days. The order also mandates that officials provide parents contact with their children by phone within 10 days, if the parent is not already in contact with his or her child..The judge’s order does not mean the Trump administration must stop prosecuting people who cross the border illegally..The American Civil Liberties Union originally filed the case against the Trump administration in February on behalf of a Congolese woman seeking asylum in the US who was separated from her 7-year-old daughter. The group now represents a wider class of plaintiffs.”
-Laura Jarrett, “Federal judge orders reunification of parents and children, end to most family separations at border,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 27, 2018 11:04 am