While President Donald Trump and administration officials took to social media to celebrate the news that 12 Thai children and their soccer coach will be reunited with their families after being trapped in a cave for 18 days, the White House didn’t even come close to meeting Tuesday’s court-imposed deadline to reunite 102 children under the age of five with their parents after they were separated by Trump’s cruel policies.
Federal judge Dana Sabraw—who issued the ruling that set the Tuesday deadline—asked the ACLU to “submit a proposal for possible punishment” against the Trump administration for failing to meet the target date.
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Rebuffing White House requests, Sabraw also declined to extend the deadlines for reunification, declaring that they are “firm deadlines” not “aspirational goals.”
Speaking to reporters just before his flight to Europe for the NATO summit, Trump blamed his administration’s failure to meet the court’s deadline on the detained families themselves, saying the “solution” to the crisis he created is “don’t come to our country illegally.”
According to court filings, the Trump administration had reunited just four families by Tuesday afternoon and is expected to reunite 34 more by the end of Tuesday.
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