Dad and mom of 105 separated youngsters have been discovered and efforts continued for a whole bunch of others

That filing “nods to the task force and its efforts,” CNN reported. “The defendants believe the work of the task force will resolve many, if not all, of the outstanding issues in this litigation, and the defendants look forward to working with plaintiffs to achieve that goal,” the file reads CNN So long ago – just last December – we found out that the federal government, under the previous administration, withheld additional contact information that could prove critical to child and parent reunification.

This NBC News report said the dates were only flipped after lawyers spent months asking for additional information that could prove important in putting families back together. “Everyone asked if the Trump administration helped find these families,” said Lee Gelernt, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in the report. “Not only did they fail to help, they held that data back forever.”

ACLU is one of the stakeholders working to bring children back together with their parents. The Biden government reportedly selected Michelle Brané, director of the Women’s Refugee Commission, to lead the task force earlier this month. “If she were selected, Michelle would be a fantastic choice. She would have in-depth knowledge of the subject and the perfect blend of passion and common sense,” Learned told NBC News.

However, proponents continue to have grave concerns as the Biden administration has not yet announced a decision on whether reunited families in the U.S. can be reunited or whether they are eligible for protection. As the Washington Post reported earlier this month, while Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the previous administration to reunite families in 2018: “Many reunited parents were not given legal status, which made them immediately deportable and the Prospect of another separation. ”

“What we need now is an immediate commitment to specific remedial action, including US reunification, permanent legal status and reimbursement for all more than 5,500 families separated from the Trump administration,” Gelernt told The Post. “Anything else will be extremely troubling as the US government committed willful child molestation.”

The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice (DOJ) released last month the final version of a draft report received from NBC News in October This indicated that senior DOJ officials, including former Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and Deputy Rod Rosenstein, were “a driving force” in the inhumane policies of the previous administration. The report said Sessions actually directed US attorneys to “take away children.” However, the inspector general said he refused to be interviewed for a report.

“The Inspector General’s investigation makes it clearer than ever: Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein and the Trump administration deliberately disregarded the lives of innocent children in their xenophobic crusade to criminalize migrant families,” Oregon Senator Ron Wyden said in one Declaration by Daily Kos. “The trauma of thousands of migrant children is in their hands. Everyone involved in this cruel and ill-conceived policy must be held accountable. I am determined to work with my colleagues and the new government of Biden to repair the damage on our southern border and restore humanity to our immigration policy. “