ACLU says the Trump administration's one- to two-year timetable for reuniting potentially thousands of separated migrant families shows 'a callous disregard for these families and should be rejected.'
to begin identifying and reuniting those children anyway, but the Justice Department lawyers have said it will take one to two years.
"That would immediately reduce the number of cases the government has to review," the ACLU said in the filing.Further, the ACLU argued, the government's ability to quickly identify the more than 2,800 children separated during May and June 218, under zero tolerance, shows that a two-year timetable to identify children separated from their families as far back as June 2017 is too long.
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