The Trump administration must explain why it took so long to release a database containing contact information for parents immigration authorities separated from their children in 2018. The information was easily accessed from a “fairly standard database,” says an ACLU lawyer. (Courthouse News Service, December 4, 2020, by Bianca Bruno)
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw called the delay “disturbing” and asked the administration to explain “what happened and why, and how is it that the EOIR databases were identified at this late date.” The ACLU says there are still 628 parents out there who have not been reunited with their children. (KQED, December 4, 2020, by Michelle Wiley)