The Oct. 25 deadline seeks to provide a full accounting of the administration’s family separations and allow advocates to verify that children have been returned to their parents.
A federal judge in San Diego gave the Trump administration six months on Thursday to identify potentially thousands of additional children it quietly separated from their parents in the months before the administration’s official “zero tolerance” policy triggered international outcry last spring.
But a government watchdog later discovered that thousands more children may have been taken from their parents starting as early as July 1, 2017, in a trial run of the zero-tolerance policy, but efforts to track them were so poor that the exact number is unknown. But on Thursday, the Justice Department said the administration is prepared to “get the job done” — hopefully by the Oct. 25 deadline.
Sabraw, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, praised White for leading the earlier effort to reunite the 2,700 children with their parents, which is nearly completed. The judge acknowledged that the latest effort to identify the children is more challenging because the children have been released from federal custody, but he said he was heartened that the government had a plan to find them.
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