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The mass separation of families sparked public outrage and a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, which also collected reports of parents being deported without the opportunity to take their children with them.
“Throughout the litigation, we learned that some parents were even told their child would join them on the plane only to have the plane take off without the child, ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt said.
That contradicts what DHS officials were telling the public.
Then-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, according to the report, testified to Congress in December 2018 that “every parent” had a choice to take their child back to their country and those who did not “made the choice not to have the child accompany them.”