Government Signals 463 Parents of Migrant Children May Have Been Expelled

The Trump administration said Monday in court that 463 parents of migrant children were no longer present in the United States, indicating that the number of mothers and fathers potentially being deported without their children during the border crackdown "Zero Tolerance" could be The progress report to US District Judge Dana Sabraw warned that the 463 cases are "under review", which means that the filing does not have any impact. was not a definitive count of all migrant parents who were deported while their children stay in the United States.

Sabraw gave the Trump administration a 30-day deadline – expiring on Thursday – to quickly reunite as many separated families as possible, and last week he asked the government to specify how many of the more than 2 500 eligible parents meetings are no longer in the country. He also temporarily suspended the expulsions of reunited families.

Monday's record did not include any additional explanation, but the government must inform the court Tuesday afternoon of its progress in the reunification effort, and will likely provide more details on whereabouts.

Their numbers represent nearly one-fifth of the parents who were potentially separated from their children before the June 20 Trump executive order stopped the practice.

Stephen Kang, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys in the case, l & # 39; ACLU, said Monday's filing seemed to be the government's first attempt, even imprecise, to evaluate the figure that his team, the court and many reporters were pressed

"If this figure s? proves as important as the report suggests, this is going to be a big problem for us, "said Kang. "We have a lot of questions."

Advocates of immigrants say migrant parents were pushed to sign voluntary eviction forms in desperation in order to be released from detention after the Abduction of their sons and daughters to government shelters. "We are concerned about the misinformation given to these parents about their rights to fight deportation without their children," said Kang. Locating them in Central America will be difficult and time consuming, he said.

The Trump Administration insists that all expelled migrant parents have given their written consent and have been duly informed of their rights in their mother tongue.