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Saturday 28 July 2018

LA judge appoints monitor to evaluate border facilities

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, COLLEEN monitor. If they can’t, each San Diego federal judge
LONG and AMY TAXIN will make suggestions to the Dana Sabraw, who or-
Associated Press judge and she will choose dered the reunifications,
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A feder- one. Earlier Friday, Home- must decide how to ad-
al judge in Los Angeles said land Security officials said dress the hundreds of still-
Friday that she will appoint they had reunified all eli- separated children whose
an independent monitor gible parents with children parents have been deport-
to evaluate conditions for — but noted many others ed, as well as how much
immigrant children in U.S were not eligible because time, if any, reunified par-
border facilities in Texas fol- they had been released ents should be allowed to
lowing a spate of reports from immigration custody, file asylum claims.
of spoiled food, insufficient are in their home countries He will also consider the
water and frigid conditions or chose not to be reunited. American Civil Liberties
faced by the youngsters More than 1,800 children 5 Union request to give reuni-
and their parents. years and older had been fied parents at least a week
Judge Dolly M. Gee said reunited with parents or to consider if they wish to
she reached her decision sponsors as of Thursday. seek asylum.
after seeing a “disconnect” That included 1,442 chil- President Donald Trump
between U.S. government Maria holds her 4-year-old son Franco after he arrived at the dren who were returned ended the practice of tak-
monitors’ assessment of El Paso International Airport Thursday, July 26, 2018 in El Paso, to parents who were in U.S. ing children from parents
conditions in facilities in Tex- Texas. The two had been separated for over six weeks after Immigration and Customs and Sabraw ordered the
as’ Rio Grande Valley and entering the country. Enforcement custody, and government to reunite all
the accounts of more than Associated Press another 378 who were re- the families by Thursday,
200 immigrant children and clean up the effects of its caused,” Schey, who has leased under a variety of but said there would be
their parents detailing nu- policy that prompted glob- long requested an inde- other circumstances. some flexibility given the
merous problems. al outrage and a presiden- pendent monitor, said. But about 700 more remain enormity of the effort. In
“It seems like there continue tial order halting separa- Sarah Fabian, a Justice separated, including 431 most cases, the families are
to be persistent problems,” tions. Peter Schey, an attor- Department attorney, op- whose parents were de- released and parents typi-
she said during a hearing in ney who represents immi- posed the appointment ported, officials say. cally get ankle-monitoring
a longstanding settlement grant children detained by without having an oppor- Those reunions take more bracelets and court dates
agreement case focusing the U.S government, said tunity to respond to the time, effort and paperwork to appear before an immi-
on the care of children in he hopes Gee’s decision accounts of children and as authorities fly children gration judge.
government custody. “I will spur U.S border authori- parents collected by im- back to Guatemala, El Sal- Faith-based and other
need to appoint an inde- ties to make improvements migrant advocates at fa- vador and Honduras. groups have provided
pendent monitor to give to other centers. cilities in June and July. She Updated figures were not meals, clothing, legal ad-
me an objective viewpoint He said in court that prob- said that border authorities, made public, but new vice, plane and bus tickets
about what is going on at lems have worsened with for example, provide water data was expected to be and even new shoe laces
the facilities.” children now spending be- fountains and jugs in cells released at a Friday hear- for both parents and chil-
Gee’s decision came as tween three and six days and that facility conditions ing in San Diego before the dren.
the Trump administration in U.S. Customs and Border must comply with agency judge overseeing the reuni- One such group, Annunci-
worked to reunite families Protection facilities, where policies. fication process. ation House in El Paso, has
separated at the U.S.-Mex- they were previously held “We believe we haven’t “The administration will received over 320 fami-
ico border under a second, between one and three had a chance for a full evi- continue to make every lies since July 17, many of
separate court mandate days. dentiary hearing on this,” effort to reunify eligible them coming in for less
out of San Diego. Hundreds “We’ve seen an intensifi- Fabian said. adults with their children,” than a day before they’re
remained separated as cation with all the chaos Both sides have until Aug. a Homeland Security state- flown out to their intended
the government worked to the administration has 10 to agree on a proposed ment said. destinations.q

Philadelphia to further limit cooperation with ICE

Immigration and Customs Kenney said immigration of criminal aliens over
Enforcement access to a officers are wrongly us- the safety and security of
real-time arrest database, ing the database to go to American citizens,” Wald-
saying the agency is mis- homes and workplaces man said. “Despite the
using the information to of people who list foreign misguided action taken by
conduct sweeps in which countries of origin and ar- Philadelphia today, DHS will
otherwise law-abiding im- resting other people who continue to work to remove
migrants are also being are in the country illegally illegal aliens and uphold
caught up. Federal officials but are otherwise not ac- public safety.”
said the decision puts U.S. cused of any crimes. Two of three stakeholders in
citizens in danger. U.S. Homeland Security the contract — the city, the
“We’re not going to provide spokeswoman Katie Wald- district attorney and the
them with information so man called the decision city courts — had to vote
they can go out and round irresponsible and said the to end it.
Protesters camped outside City Hall march in the street after people up,” Democratic city will end up “harboring District Attorney Larry Kras-
a decision about ICE was made, Friday July 27, 2018, in Mayor Jim Kenney said Fri- criminal aliens.” ner had said this month
Philadelphia. day as he announced his “Sanctuary-city policies he would oppose the
Associated Press decision to let a decade- make American commu- contract’s renewal, say-
By CLAUDIA LAUER PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Phila- old contract with ICE expire nities like Philadelphia less ing it promotes oppressive
Associated Press delphia will stop giving U.S. at the end of next month. safe by putting the rights practices.q