and the president himself that family separation is over. that he, in fact, ended it. well, we learned last night thanks to the aclu that is not at all the case. family separation is not only stipulate happening, it is widespread and systematic. according to new court documents filed by the aclu, june 2018 through june 2019, the government separated more than 900 children from their families including numerous babies and toddlers. the documents showed the government continued to take children from their family members using criminal history, no matter how minor, or unilateral judgments that a pasht is unfit as their stated cause. the trump administration continued to do this for over a year after the president signed an executive order saying that he ended family separations. from the filing, quote, one parent was separated from their child based on a 27-year-old drug possession conviction. another father was separated from his three young daughters because he has hiv. one mother had her child effectively kidnapped while she was in the hospital.