A California district judge has apparently decided that the borders of the United States don’t matter.
On Monday, Judge Dana Sabraw, who had previously ruled that the federal government administration must unite all illegal immigrants separated from their children at the border in just two weeks, but wouldn’t permit the government to take the necessary time to prove that the adults and the children had genuine familial ties, halted the deportations of families that were recently reunited after being separated by the Trump administration.
Sabraw bowed to the demands of the ACLU, which wanted newly-reunited families to be granted one week to determine their next legal moves. The ACLU had argued that if the families were deported, the ACLU would not be able to meet and represent them.
As Daniel Horowitz of Conservative Review notes, “Sabraw granted the request until the government submits briefs in response! There are no words to describe just how unprecedented this is or how it violates all aspects of settled immigration law.”
Horowitz also notes that Sabraw wants American taxpayers to pay for reunification of the families, rather than the families themselves, as Sabraw opined, “It doesn’t make any sense for any of the parents who have been separated to pay for anything.” He adds that it is more than incongruous to permit a single California judge to decided border policy when 72% of the illegal immigrant families cross through Texas.
Last week, Sabraw agreed to extend the deadline to reunite 102 illegal immigrant children under the age of 5 who were separated from their parents under President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy.