comprehensive immigration reform. thank you very much. you re welcome. for more on the chaos stemming from the trump family separation policy, i m joined by deputy director of the aclu s immigrants rights project and attorney natalia at the texas civil rights project. all right. where do things stand right now? you guys have attorneys on the front line of child separation right now. the first question is has it stopped on the front line of the processing? are they no longer doing the separations? it appears that they are no longer doing separations. that s good. as of today. so as of today, that part of it is not happening. i believe so. okay. now, the second part, you were in court today before a federal judge. yes. about your suit what is your lawsuit trying to do at this point? yeah. what we told the judge today was and when i said we need an injunction very quickly to reunite the 2,300 kids who are still separated.
federal government is asking that parents and children, innocent children, be locked up in facilities that have no requirements to meet under state regulations for detaining a child. that s what the government has asked for, for these families to be detained together moving forward and that they not have any licensing requirements, meet any standards, permits, nothing. just do it. one other thing i said to the judge is we need the government to submit a list of every parngt and child that s been separated and for the government to immediately within one week tell the parents how to contact their children. that s the most horrendous thing. the parents don t know where the children are. and you re asking a court to rule and make that requirement. we have to. because in the absence, the government is not doing it. absolutely. lee, natalia, thank you. lee was just a guest on our new podcast where we talk in depth about that aclu lawsuit on family separation policy. you can find
government to know that the federal government is asking that parents and children, innocent children, be locked up in facilities that have no requirements to meet under state regulations for detaining a child. that s what the government has asked for, for these families to be detained together moving forward and that they not have any licensing requirements, meet any standards, permits, nothing. just do it. one other thing i said to the judge is we need the government to submit a list of every parngt and child that s been separated and for the government to immediately within one week tell the parents how to contact their children. that s the most horrendous thing. the parents don t know where the children are. and you re asking a court to rule and make that requirement. we have to. because in the absence, the government is not doing it. absolutely. lee, natalia, thank you. lee was just a guest on our new podcast where we talk in depth about that aclu lawsuit on
you re welcome. for more on the chaos stemming from the trump family separation policy, i m joined by deputy director of the aclu s immigrants rights project and attorney natalia at the texas civil rights project. all right. where do things stand right now? you guys have attorneys on the front line of child separation right now. the first question is has it stopped on the front line of the processing? are they no longer doing the separations? it appears that they are no longer doing separations. that s good. as of today. so as of today, that part of it is not happening. i believe so. okay. now, the second part, you were in court today before a federal judge. yes. about your suit what is your lawsuit trying to do at this point? yeah. what we told the judge today was and when i said we need an injunction very quickly to reunite the 2,300 kids who are still separated. i asked if he would issue that injunction tonight because the children are suffering every day.