BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said more than 450 immigrant parents separated from their children under the government’s zero-tolerance policy for illegal border crossers may have been deported. In a court filing late Monday [7-23-18], Justice Department lawyers said case notes by immigration authorities show that 463 immigrants are no longer in the country, though those cases are ‘under review.’ The government said in its filing that of the 2,551 migrant children identified as having been separated from their parents, 1,634 had been deemed eligible for possible reunification and 879 had been reconnected to their parents. The migrant children were separated from their parents under the government’s policy to prosecute nearly every adult caught crossing the border illegally and separate children and parents in the process. President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending the separation policy on June 20 and a court later ordered the government to reunite all of the parents and children by Thursday [7-26-18]. The American Civil Liberties Union, which sued the government in February over the practice, has long worried that parents could be deported without their children. The government previously acknowledged that 12 had been deported before they could be reunited with the youngest separated children.”
–Alicia A. Caldwell, “Trump Administration Says Hundreds of Migrant Parents May Have Been Deported,” The Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2018 1:15 pm