The following article by Rebekah Entralgo was posted on the ThinkProgress website August 3, 2018:
The ACLU calls the administration’s refusal to reunite deported parents and children “remarkable.”
The Trump administration continues to wash their hands of any responsibility of solving a crisis of their own creation.
On Thursday night, the Department of Justice (DOJ) informed a federal judge that the government is not responsible for finding the over 400 parents separated from their children at the border who were deported and are no longer in the United States.
Instead, the government believes it is the responsibility of the American Civil Liberties Unions (ACLU), the organization suing the federal government, to reunify deported parents with their children.