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San Diego: Family Separations and Tuesday Night

san diego: In his order, U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw, an appointee of President George W. Bush, said all families must be reunited within 30 days, and children under 5 must be reunited with their parents within 14 days, according to The Chronicle Herald. He also issued a nationwide injunction against further family separations, unless the parent is deemed unfit or doesn't want to be with the child. The hard deadline set Tuesday night by a U.S. District Judge in San Diego touched off a flurry of activity at facilities already coping with the aftermath of President Donald Trump's order to end the separation of families at the border. Asked about the injunction, Trump offered no complaint, saying, We believe the families should be together also so there's not a lot to fight. The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement is taking an average of 57 days to place children in its care with adult sponsors far longer than the time now allotted by the judge. But it remained unclear Wednesday how the administration would meet that deadline, given the amount of red tape and confusion that has hung over the reunification process. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.