A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. to allow 11 parents who were deported without their children entry back into the U.S.
San Diego District Court Judge Dana Sabraw ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully prevented the parents from pursuing asylum cases, according to The Associated Press.
In some cases, Sabraw found that agents coerced parents to drop their claims and accept deportation by having them sign documents they didn’t understand or telling them that asylum laws had changed.
Sabraw declined to allow seven other parents in the original request to return.
The 11 parents were separated from their children during the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
Reminder that children are STILL being separated from their parents on the border, the administration is STILL looking to end the Flores Settlement, and yesterday the The Health and Human Services inspector general released a 48-page report on the intense psychological toll & the effects of it experienced by the children who were separated from their families.