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DECLARATION of Megan D. Lin filed by Plaintiff State of Washington re #15 MOTION to Expedite Discovery and Regular Staus Conferences (Attachments: #1 Exhibit Q-DD, #2 Exhibit EE-NN)(Glasgow, Rebecca)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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Ms. L.; et al.,
Case No.: 18cv0428 DMS (MDD)
Petitioners-Plaintiffs,
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ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’
MOTION FOR CLASSWIDE
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
U.S Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (“ICE”); et al.,
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Respondents-Defendants.
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Eleven weeks ago, Plaintiffs leveled the serious accusation that our Government was
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engaged in a widespread practice of separating migrant families, and placing minor
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children who were separated from their parents in government facilities for
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“unaccompanied minors.”
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indiscriminately, and separated even those families with small children and infants—many
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of whom were seeking asylum. Plaintiffs noted reports that the practice would become
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national policy. Recent events confirm these allegations. Extraordinary relief is requested,
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and is warranted under the circumstances.
According to Plaintiffs, the practice was applied
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On May 7, 2018, the Attorney General of the United States announced a “zero
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tolerance policy,” under which all adults entering the United States illegally would be
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subject to criminal prosecution, and if accompanied by a minor child, the child would be
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separated from the parent.1 Over the ensuing weeks, hundreds of migrant children were
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separated from their parents, sparking international condemnation of the practice. Six days
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ago on June 20, 2018, the President of the United States signed an Executive Order (“EO”)
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to address the situation and to require preservation of the “family unit” by keeping migrant
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families together during criminal and immigration proceedings to the extent permitted by
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law, while also maintaining “rigorous[]” enforcement of immigration laws. See Executive
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Order, Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation § 1, 2018 WL
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3046068 (June 20, 2018). The EO did not address reunification of the burgeoning
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population of over 2,000 children separated from their parents. Public outrage remained
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at a fever pitch. Three days ago on Saturday, June 23, 2018, the Department of Homeland
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Security (“DHS”) issued a “Fact Sheet” outlining the government’s efforts to “ensure that
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those adults who are subject to removal are reunited with their children for the purposes of
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removal.”2
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Plaintiffs assert the EO does not eliminate the need for the requested injunction, and
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the Fact Sheet does not address the circumstances of this case. Defendants disagree with
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those assertions, but there is no genuine dispute that the Government was not prepared to
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accommodate the mass influx of separated children. Measures were not in place to provide
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for communication between governmental agencies responsible for detaining parents and
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those responsible for housing children, or to provide for ready communication between
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separated parents and children. There was no reunification plan in place, and families have
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been separated for months. Some parents were deported at separate times and from
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See U.S. Att’y. Gen., Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks Discussing the
Immigration Enforcement Actions of the Trump Administration (May 7, 2018),
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-sessions-delivers-remarksdiscussing-immigration-enforcement-actions.
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different locations than their children. Migrant families that lawfully entered the United
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States at a port of entry seeking asylum were separated. And families that were separated
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due to entering the United States illegally between ports of entry have not been reunited
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following the parent’s completion of criminal proceedings and return to immigration
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detention.
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This Court previously entered an order finding Plaintiffs had stated a legally
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cognizable claim for violation of their substantive due process rights to family integrity
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under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution based on their allegations the
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Government had separated Plaintiffs from their minor children while Plaintiffs were held
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in immigration detention and without a showing that they were unfit parents or otherwise
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presented a danger to their children. See Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration & Customs Enf’t, 302
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F. Supp. 3d 1149, 2018 WL 2725736, at *7-12 (S.D. Cal. June 6, 2018). A class action
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has been certified to include similarly situated migrant parents. Plaintiffs now request
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classwide injunctive relief to prohibit separation of class members from their children in
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the future absent a finding the parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child, and to require
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reunification of these families once the parent is returned to immigration custody unless
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the parent is determined to be unfit or presents a danger to the child.
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Plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits, irreparable harm,
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and that the balance of equities and the public interest weigh in their favor, thus warranting
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issuance of a preliminary injunction. This Order does not implicate the Government’s
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discretionary authority to enforce immigration or other criminal laws, including its
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decisions to release or detain class members. Rather, the Order addresses only the
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circumstances under which the Government may separate class members from their
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children, as well as the reunification of class members who are returned to immigration
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custody upon completion of any criminal proceedings.
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I.
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BACKGROUND
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This case started with the filing of a Complaint by Ms. L., a Catholic citizen of the
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Democratic Republic of the Congo fleeing persecution from her home country because of
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her religious beliefs. The specific facts of Ms. L.’s case are set out in the Complaint and
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this Court’s June 6, 2018 Order on Defendants’ motion to dismiss. See Ms. L., 2018 WL
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2725736, at *1-3. In brief, Ms. L. and her then-six-year-old daughter S.S., lawfully
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presented themselves at the San Ysidro Port of Entry seeking asylum based on religious
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persecution. They were initially detained together, but after a few days S.S. was “forcibly
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separated” from her mother. When S.S. was taken away from her mother, “she was
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screaming and crying, pleading with guards not to take her away from her mother.” (Am.
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Compl. ¶ 43.) Immigration officials claimed they had concerns whether Ms. L. was S.S.’s
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mother, despite Ms. L.’s protestations to the contrary and S.S.’s behavior. So Ms. L. was
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placed in immigration custody and scheduled for expedited removal, thus rendering S.S.
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an “unaccompanied minor” under the Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization
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Act (“TVPRA”), Pub. L. No. 110-457 (Dec. 23, 2008), and subjecting her to the “care and
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custody” of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (“ORR”).3 S.S. was placed in a facility in
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The TVPRA provides that “the care and custody of all unaccompanied alien children,
including responsibility for their detention, where appropriate, shall be the responsibility
of” HHS and its sub-agency, ORR. 8 U.S.C. § 1232(b)(1). An “unaccompanied alien
child” (“UAC”) is a child under 18 years of age with no lawful immigration status in the
United States who has neither a parent nor legal guardian in the United States nor a parent
nor legal guardian in the United States “available” to care for them. 6 U.S.C § 279(g)(2).
According to the TVPRA, a UAC “may not be placed with a person or entity unless the
Secretary of Health and Human Services makes a determination that the proposed
custodian is capable of providing for the child’s physical and mental well-being. Such
determination shall, at a minimum, include verification of the custodian’s identity and
relationship to the child, if any, as well as an independent finding that the individual has
not engaged in any activity that would indicate a potential risk to the child.” 8 U.S.C. §
1232(c)(3)(A).
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Chicago over a thousand miles away from her mother.
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determined Ms. L. had a credible fear of persecution and placed her in removal
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proceedings, where she could pursue her asylum claim. During this period, Ms. L. was
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able to speak with her daughter only “approximately 6 times by phone, never by video.”
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(Am. Compl. ¶ 45.) Each time they spoke, S.S. “was crying and scared.” (Id. ¶ 43.) Ms.
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L. was “terrified that she would never see her daughter again.” (Id. ¶ 45.) After the present
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lawsuit was filed, Ms. L. was released from ICE detention into the community. The Court
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ordered the Government to take a DNA saliva sample (or swab), which confirmed that Ms.
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L. was the mother of S.S. Four days later, Ms. L. and S.S. were reunited after being
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Immigration officials later
separated for nearly five months.
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In an Amended Complaint filed on March 9, 2018, this case was expanded to include
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another Plaintiff, Ms. C. She is a citizen of Brazil, and unlike Ms. L., she did not present
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at a port of entry. Instead, she and her 14-year-old son J. crossed into the United States
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“between ports of entry,” after which they were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol. Ms.
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C. explained to the agent that she and her son were seeking asylum, but the Government,
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as was its right under federal law, charged Ms. C. with entering the country illegally and
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placed her in criminal custody. This rendered J. an “unaccompanied minor” and he, like
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S.S., was transferred to the custody of ORR, where he, too, was housed in a facility in
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Chicago several hundred miles away from his mother. Ms. C. was thereafter convicted of
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misdemeanor illegal entry and served 25 days in criminal custody. After completing that
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sentence, Ms. C. was transferred to immigration detention for removal proceedings and
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consideration of her asylum claim, as she too had passed a credible fear screening. Despite
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being returned to immigration custody, Ms. C. was not reunited with J. During the five
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months she was detained, Ms. C. did not see her son, and they spoke on the phone only “a
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handful of times[.]” (Id. ¶ 58.) Ms. C. was “desperate” to be reunited with her son, worried
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about him constantly and did not know when she would be able to see him. (Id.) J. had a
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difficult time emotionally during the period of separation from his mother. (Id. ¶ 59.) Ms.
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C. was eventually released from immigration detention on bond, and only recently reunited
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with J. Their separation lasted more than eight months despite the lack of any allegations
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or evidence that Ms. C. was unfit or otherwise presented a danger to her son.4
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Ms. L. and Ms. C. are not the only migrant parents who have been separated from
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their children at the border. Hundreds of others, who have both lawfully presented at ports
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of entry (like Ms. L.) and unlawfully crossed into the country (like Ms. C.), have also been
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separated. Because this practice is affecting large numbers of people, Plaintiffs sought
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certification of a class consisting of similarly situated individuals. The Court certified that
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class with minor modifications,5 and now turns to the important question of whether
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Plaintiffs are entitled to a classwide preliminary injunction that (1) halts the separation of
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class members from their children absent a determination that the parent is unfit or presents
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a danger to the child, and (2) reunites class members who are returned to immigration
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custody upon completion of any criminal proceedings absent a determination that the
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parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child.
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Since the present motion was filed, several important developments occurred, as
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previously noted. First, on May 7, 2018, the Government announced its zero tolerance
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policy for all adult persons crossing the border illegally, which resulted in the separation
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of hundreds of children who had crossed with their parents. This is what happened with
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Ms. C., though she crossed prior to the public announcement of the zero tolerance policy.
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As stated in the Court’s Order on Defendants’ motion to dismiss, Plaintiffs do not
challenge Ms. C.’s initial separation from J. as a result of the criminal charge filed against
her. Plaintiffs’ only complaint with regard to Ms. C. concerns the Government’s failure to
reunite her with J. after she was returned to immigration custody.
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The class is defined to include: “All adult parents who enter the United States at or
between designated ports of entry who (1) have been, are, or will be detained in
immigration custody by the [DHS], and (2) have a minor child who is or will be separated
from them by DHS and detained in ORR custody, ORR foster care, or DHS custody absent
a determination that the parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child.” (See Order
Granting in Part Mot. for Class Cert. at 17.) The class does not include parents with
criminal history or communicable disease, or those apprehended in the interior of the
country or subject to the EO. (See id. at 4 n.5.)
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She is not alone. There are hundreds of similarly situated parents, and there are more than
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2,000 children that have now been separated from their parents.
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When a parent is charged with a criminal offense, the law ordinarily requires
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separation of the family. This separation generally occurs regardless of whether the parent
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is charged with a state or federal offense. The repercussions on the children, however, can
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vary greatly depending on status. For citizens, there is an established system of social
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service agencies ready to provide for the care and well-being of the children, if necessary,
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including child protective services and the foster care system. This is in addition to any
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family members that may be available to provide shelter for these minor children.
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Grandparents and siblings are frequently called upon. Non-citizens may not have this kind
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of support system, such as other family members who can provide shelter for their children
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in the event the parent is detained at the border. This results in immigrant children going
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into the custody of the federal government, which is presently not well equipped to handle
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that important task.
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For children placed in federal custody, there are two options. One of those options
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is ORR, but it was established to address a different problem, namely minor children who
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were apprehended at the border without their parents, i.e., true “unaccompanied alien
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children.” It was not initially designed to address the problem of migrant children detained
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with their parents at the border and who were thereafter separated from their parents. The
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second option is family detention facilities, but the options there are limited. Indeed, at the
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time of oral argument on this motion, Government counsel represented to the Court that
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the “total capacity in [family] residential centers” was “less than 2,700.” (Rep. Tr. at 9,
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May 9, 2018, ECF No. 70.) For male heads of households, i.e., fathers traveling with their
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children, there was only one facility with “86 beds.” (Id. at 43.)
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The recently issued EO confirms the government is inundated by the influx of
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children essentially orphaned as a result of family separation. The EO now directs “[h]eads
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of executive departments and agencies” to make available “any facilities … appropriate”
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for the housing and care of alien families. EO § 3(d). The EO also calls upon the military
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by directing the Secretary of Defense to make available “any existing” facility and to
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“construct such facilities[,]” if necessary, id. § 3(c), which is an extraordinary measure.
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Meanwhile, “tent cities” and other make-shift facilities are springing up. That was the
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situation into which Plaintiffs, and hundreds of other families that were separated at the
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border in the past several months, were placed.
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This situation has reached a crisis level. The news media is saturated with stories of
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immigrant families being separated at the border. People are protesting. Elected officials
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are weighing in. Congress is threatening action. Seventeen states have now filed a
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complaint against the Federal Government challenging the family separation practice. See
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State of Washington v. United States, Case No. 18cv0939, United States District Court for
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the Western District of Washington. And the President has taken action.
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Specifically, on June 20, 2018, the President signed the EO referenced above. The
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EO states it is the Administration’s policy “to maintain family unity, including by detaining
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alien families together where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources.”
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Id. § 1.6 In furtherance of that policy, the EO indicates that parents and children who are
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apprehended together at the border will be detained together “during the pendency of any
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criminal improper entry or immigration proceedings” to the extent permitted by law. Id. §
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3. The language of the EO is not absolute, however, as it states that family unity shall be
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maintained “where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources[,]” id. § 1,
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and “to the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations[.]” Id.
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§ 3. The EO also indicates rigorous enforcement of illegal border crossers will continue.
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Id. § 1 (“It is the policy of this Administration to rigorously enforce our immigration
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laws.”). And finally, although the Order speaks to a policy of “maintain[ing] family unity,”
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The Order defines “alien family” as “any person not a citizen or national of the United
States who has not been admitted into, or is not authorized to enter or remain in, the United
States, who entered this country with an alien child or alien children at or between
designated ports of entry and who was detained[.]” Id. § 2(a)(i).
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it is silent on the issue of reuniting families that have already been separated or will be
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separated in the future.” Id.
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In light of these recent developments, and in particular the EO, the Court held a
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telephonic status conference with counsel on June 22, 2018. During that conference, the
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Court inquired about communication between ORR and DHS, and ORR and the
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Department of Justice (“DOJ”), including the Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”), as it relates to
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these separated families.
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whether there was any affirmative reunification procedure for parents and children after
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parents were returned to immigration detention following completion of criminal
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proceedings. Government counsel explained the communication procedures that were in
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place, and represented, consistent with her earlier representation to the Court, that there
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was no procedure in place for the reunification of these families.7
Reunification procedures were also discussed, specifically
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The day after the status conference, Saturday, June 23, DHS issued the Fact Sheet
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referenced above. This document focuses on several issues addressed during the status
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conference, e.g., processes for enhanced communication between separated parents and
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children, but only “for the purposes of removal.” It also addresses coordination between
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and among three agencies, CBP, ICE, and HHS agency ORR, but again for the purpose of
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removal. The Fact Sheet does not address reunification for other purposes, such as
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immigration or asylum proceedings, which can take months. It also does not mention other
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vital agencies frequently involved during criminal proceedings: DOJ and BOP.
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At the conclusion of the recent status conference, the Court requested supplemental
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briefing from the parties. Those briefs have now been submitted. After thoroughly
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The Court: “Is there currently any affirmative reunification process that the government
has in place once parent and child are separated? Government counsel: I would say …
when a parent is released from criminal custody and taken into ICE custody is the practice
to reunite them in family detention[?] And at that [previous hearing] I said no, that that
was not the practice. I think my answer on that narrow question would be the same.” (Rep.
Tr. at 29-30, June 22, 2018, ECF No. 77.)
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considering all of the parties’ briefs and the record in this case, and after hearing argument
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from counsel on these important issues, the Court grants Plaintiffs’ motion for a classwide
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preliminary injunction.
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II.
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DISCUSSION
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Plaintiffs seek classwide preliminary relief that (1) enjoins Defendants’ practice of
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separating class members from their children absent a determination that the parent is unfit
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or presents a danger to their child, and (2) orders the government to reunite class members
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with their children when the parent is returned to immigration custody after their criminal
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proceedings conclude, absent a determination that the parent is unfit or presents a danger
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to the child. Injunctive relief is “an extraordinary remedy that may only be awarded upon
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a clear showing that the plaintiff is entitled to such relief.” Winter v. Natural Res. Def.
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Council, Inc., 555 U.S. 7, 22 (2008). To meet that showing, Plaintiffs must demonstrate
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“‘[they are] likely to succeed on the merits, that [they are] likely to suffer irreparable harm
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in the absence of preliminary relief, that the balance of equities tips in [their] favor, and
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that an injunction is in the public interest.’” Am. Trucking Ass'ns v. City of Los Angeles,
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559 F.3d 1046, 1052 (9th Cir. 2009) (quoting Winter, 555 U.S. at 20).8
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The Ninth Circuit applies separate standards for injunctions depending on whether they
are prohibitory, i.e., whether they prevent future conduct, or mandatory, i.e., “they go
beyond ‘maintaining the status quo[.]’” Hernandez v. Sessions, 872 F.3d 976, 997 (9th
Cir. 2017). The standard set out above applies to prohibitory injunctions, which is what
Plaintiffs seek here. To the extent Plaintiffs are also requesting mandatory relief, that
request is “subject to a higher standard than prohibitory injunctions,” namely that relief
will issue only “when ‘extreme or very serious damage will result’ that is not capable of
compensation in damages,’ and the merits of the case are not ‘doubtful.’” Id. at 999
(quoting Marlyn Nutraceuticals, Inc. v. Mucos Pharma GmbH & Co., 571 F.3d 873, 879
(9th Cir. 2009)). The Ninth Circuit recognizes that application of these different standards
“is controversial[,]” and that other Circuits have questioned this approach. Id. at 997-98.
This Court need not, and does not, address that discrepancy here. Suffice it to say that to
the extent some portion of Plaintiffs’ requested relief is subject to a standard higher than
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Before turning to these factors, the Court addresses directly Defendants’ argument
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that an injunction is not necessary here in light of the EO and the recently released Fact
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Sheet. Although these documents reflect some attempts by the Government to address
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some of the issues in this case, neither obviates the need for injunctive relief here. As
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indicated throughout this Order, the EO is subject to various qualifications. For instance,
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Plaintiffs correctly assert the EO allows the government to separate a migrant parent from
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his or her child “where there is a concern that detention of an alien child with the child’s
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alien parent would pose a risk to the child’s welfare.” EO § 3(b) (emphasis added).
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Objective standards are necessary, not subjective ones, particularly in light of the history
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of this case. Furthermore, the Fact Sheet focuses on reunification “at time of removal[,]”
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U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., supra, note 2, stating that the parent slated for removal will
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be matched up with their child at a location in Texas and then removed. It says nothing
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about reunification during the intervening time between return from criminal proceedings
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to ICE detention or the time in ICE detention prior to actual removal, which can take
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months. Indeed, it is undisputed “ICE has no plans or procedures in place to reunify the
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parent with the child other than arranging for them to be deported together after the parent’s
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immigration case is concluded.” (Pls.’ Supp. Mem. in Supp. of Classwide Prelim. Inj., Ex.
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31 ¶ 11.) Thus, neither of these directives eliminates the need for an injunction in this case.
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With this finding, the Court now turns to the Winter factors.
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Likelihood of Success
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“The first factor under Winter is the most important—likely success on the merits.”
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Garcia v. Google, Inc., 786 F.3d 733, 740 (9th Cir. 2015). While Plaintiffs carry the burden
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of demonstrating likelihood of success, they are not required to prove their case in full at
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the preliminary injunction stage but only such portions that enable them to obtain the
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injunctive relief they seek. See Univ. of Texas v. Camenisch, 451 U.S. 390, 395 (1981).
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the traditional standard for injunctive relief, Plaintiffs have met their burden for the reasons
set out below.
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Here, the only claim currently at issue is Plaintiffs’ due process claim.9 Specifically,
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Plaintiffs contend the Government’s practice of separating class members from their
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children, and failing to reunite those parents who have been separated, without a
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determination that the parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child violates the parents’
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substantive due process rights to family integrity under the Fifth Amendment to the United
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States Constitution. To prevail on this claim, Plaintiffs must show that the Government
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practice “shocks the conscience.” In the Order on Defendants’ motion to dismiss, the Court
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found Plaintiffs had set forth sufficient facts to support that claim. Ms. L., 2018 WL
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2725736, at *7-12. The evidence submitted since that time supports that finding, and
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demonstrates Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on this claim.
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As explained in the Court’s Order on Defendants’ motion to dismiss, the “shocks the
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conscience” standard is not subject to a rigid list of established elements. See County of
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Sacramento v. Lewis, 523 U.S. 833, 850 (1998) (stating “[r]ules of due process are not …
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subject to mechanical application in unfamiliar territory.”)
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investigation into substantive due process involves an appraisal of the totality of the
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circumstances rather than a formalistic examination of fixed elements[.]” Armstrong v.
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Squadrito, 152 F.3d 564, 570 (7th Cir. 1998).
On the contrary, “an
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Here, each Plaintiff presents different circumstances, but both were subjected to the
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same government practice of family separation without a determination that the parent was
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unfit or presented a danger to the child. Ms. L. was separated from her child without a
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determination she was unfit or presented a danger to her child, and Ms. C. was not reunited
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with her child despite the absence of any finding that she was unfit or presented a danger
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In their supplemental brief, Defendants assert Plaintiffs are raising new claims based on
events that transpired after the Complaints were filed, e.g., the announcement of the zero
tolerance policy and the EO. The Court disagrees. Plaintiffs’ claims are not based on these
events, but are based on the practice of separating class members from their children. The
subsequent events are relevant to Plaintiffs’ claim, but they have not changed the claim
itself, which remains focused on the practice of separation.
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to her child. Outside of the context of this case, namely an international border, Plaintiffs
2
would have a high likelihood of success on a claim premised on such a practice. See D.B.
3
v. Cardall, 826 F.3d 721, 741 (4th Cir. 2016) (citing cases finding due process violation
4
where state action interfered with rights of fit parents); Heartland Academy Community
5
Church v. Waddle, 595 F.3d 798, 808-811 (8th Cir. 2010) (finding removal of children
6
from religious school absent evidence the students were “at immediate risk of child abuse
7
or neglect” was violation of clearly established constitutional right); Brokaw v. Mercer
8
County, 235 F.3d 1000, 1019 (7th Cir. 2000) (citing Croft v. Westmoreland County
9
Children and Youth Services, 103 F.3d 1123, 1126 (3d Cir. 1997) (“courts have recognized
10
that a state has no interest in protecting children from their parents unless it has some
11
definite and articulable evidence giving rise to a reasonable suspicion that a child has been
12
abused or is in imminent danger of abuse.”)
13
The context of this case is different. The Executive Branch, which is tasked with
14
enforcement of the country’s criminal and immigration laws, is acting within its powers to
15
detain individuals lawfully entering the United States and to apprehend individuals illegally
16
entering the country. However, as the Court explained in its Order on Defendants’ motion
17
to dismiss, the right to family integrity still applies here. The context of the family
18
separation practice at issue here, namely an international border, does not render the
19
practice constitutional, nor does it shield the practice from judicial review.
20
On the contrary, the context and circumstances in which this practice of family
21
separation were being implemented support a finding that Plaintiffs have a likelihood of
22
success on their due process claim. First, although parents and children may lawfully be
23
separated when the parent is placed in criminal custody, the same general rule does not
24
apply when a parent and child present together lawfully at a port of entry seeking asylum.
25
In that situation, the parent has committed no crime, and absent a finding the parent is unfit
26
or presents a danger to the child, it is unclear why separation of Ms. L. or similarly situated
27
class members would be necessary. Here, many of the family separations have been the
28
result of the Executive Branch’s zero tolerance policy, but the record also reflects that the
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practice of family separation was occurring before the zero tolerance policy was
2
announced, and that practice has resulted in the casual, if not deliberate, separation of
3
families that lawfully present at the port of entry, not just those who cross into the country
4
illegally. Ms. L. is an example of this family separation practice expanding beyond its
5
lawful reach, and she is not alone. (See, e.g., Pls.’ Reply Br. in Supp. of Mot. for Class
6
Cert., Exs. 22-23, 25-26) (declarations from parents attesting to separation at border after
7
lawfully presenting at port of entry and requesting asylum); Pls.’ Supp. Mem. in Supp. of
8
Classwide Prelim. Inj., Ex. 32 ¶¶ 9, 10b, 11a (listing parents who were separated from
9
children after presenting at ports of entry)).
10
As set out in the Court’s prior Order, asylum seekers like Ms. L. and many other
11
class members may be fleeing persecution and are entitled to careful consideration by
12
government officials. Particularly so if they have a credible fear of persecution. We are a
13
country of laws, and of compassion. We have plainly stated our intent to treat refugees
14
with an ordered process, and benevolence, by codifying principles of asylum. See, e.g.,
15
The Refugee Act, PL 96-212, 94 Stat. 102 (1980). The Government’s treatment of Ms. L.
16
and other similarly situated class members does not meet this standard, and it is unlikely
17
to pass constitutional muster.
18
Second, the practice of separating these families was implemented without any
19
effective system or procedure for (1) tracking the children after they were separated from
20
their parents, (2) enabling communication between the parents and their children after
21
separation, and (3) reuniting the parents and children after the parents are returned to
22
immigration custody following completion of their criminal sentence. This is a startling
23
reality. The government readily keeps track of personal property of detainees in criminal
24
and immigration proceedings. Money, important documents, and automobiles, to name a
25
few, are routinely catalogued, stored, tracked and produced upon a detainees’ release, at
26
all levels—state and federal, citizen and alien. Yet, the government has no system in place
27
to keep track of, provide effective communication with, and promptly produce alien
28
children. The unfortunate reality is that under the present system migrant children are not
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accounted for with the same efficiency and accuracy as property. Certainly, that cannot
2
satisfy the requirements of due process. See Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745, 758-59
3
(1982) (quoting Lassiter v. Dept. of Soc. Services of Durham County, N.C., 452 U.S. 18,
4
(1981)) (stating it is “‘plain beyond the need for multiple citation’ that a natural parent’s
5
‘desire for and right to the companionship, care, custody, and management of his or her
6
children’ is an interest far more precious than any property right.”) (internal quotation
7
marks omitted).
8
The lack of effective methods for communication between parents and children who
9
have been separated has also had a profoundly negative effect on the parents’ criminal and
10
immigration proceedings, as well as the childrens’ immigration proceedings. See United
11
States v. Dominguez-Portillo, No:EP-17-MJ-4409-MAT, 2018 WL 315759, at *1-2 (W.D.
12
Tex. Jan. 5, 2018) (explaining that criminally charged defendants “had not received any
13
paperwork or information concerning the whereabouts or well-being of” their children). In
14
effect, these parents have been left “in a vacuum, without knowledge of the well-being and
15
location of their children, to say nothing of the immigration proceedings in which those
16
minor children find themselves.” Id. at *14. This situation may result in a number of
17
different scenarios, all of which are negative – some profoundly so. For example, “[i]f
18
parent and child are asserting or intending to assert an asylum claim, that child may be
19
navigating those legal waters without the benefit of communication with and assistance
20
from her parent; that defendant, too, must make a decision on his criminal case with total
21
uncertainty about this issue.” Id. Furthermore, “ a defendant facing certain deportation
22
would be unlikely to know whether he might be deported before, simultaneous to, or after
23
their child, or whether they would have the opportunity to even discuss their
24
deportations[.]” Id. Indeed, some parents have already been deported without their
25
children, who remain in government facilities in the United States.10
26
27
See, e.g., Pls.’ Supp. Mem. in Supp. of Classwide Prelim. Inj., Ex. 32 ¶ 16k, Ex. 36 ¶ 7a;
Nelson Renteria, El Salvador demands U.S. return child taken from deported father,
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The absence of established procedures for dealing with families that have been
2
separated at the border, and the effects of that void on the families involved, is borne out
3
in the cases of Plaintiffs here. Ms. L. was separated from her child when immigration
4
officials claimed they could not verify she was S.S.’s mother, and detained her for
5
expedited removal proceedings. That rendered S.S. “unaccompanied” under the TVPRA
6
and subject to immediate transfer to ORR, which accepted responsibility for S.S. There
7
was no further communication between the agencies, ICE and ORR. The filing of the
8
present lawsuit prompted release and reunification of Ms. L. and her daughter, a process
9
that took close to five months and court involvement. Ms. C. completed her criminal
10
sentence in 25 days, but it took nearly eight months to be reunited with her son. She, too,
11
had to file suit to regain custody of her son from ORR.
12
These situations confirm what the Government has already stated: it is not
13
affirmatively reuniting parents like Plaintiffs and their fellow class members for purposes
14
other than removal. Outside of deportation, the onus is on the parents, who, for the most
15
part, are themselves in either criminal or immigration proceedings, to contact ORR or
16
otherwise search for their children and make application for reunification under the
17
TVPRA. However, this reunification procedure was not designed to deal with the present
18
circumstances. (See Pls.’ Supp. Mem. in Supp. of Classwide Prelim. Inj., Ex. 33 ¶¶ 6-9.)
19
Rather, “ORR’s reunification process was designed to address the situation of children who
20
come to the border or are apprehended outside the company of a parent or legal guardian.”
21
(Id. ¶ 6.) Placing the burden on the parents to find and request reunification with their
22
children under the circumstances presented here is backwards.
When children are
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25
26
27
28
REUTERS (June 21, 2018, 4:03 PM), https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigrationel-salvador/el-salvador-demands-us-return-child-taken-from-deported-fatheridUSKBN1JH3ER; Miriam Jordan, ‘I Can’t Go Without My Son’: A Deported Mother’s
Plea, N.Y. TIMES (June 17, 2018), https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/immigrationdeported-parents.html.
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separated from their parents under these circumstances, the Government has an affirmative
2
obligation to track and promptly reunify these family members.
3
This practice of separating class members from their minor children, and failing to
4
reunify class members with those children, without any showing the parent is unfit or
5
presents a danger to the child is sufficient to find Plaintiffs have a likelihood of success on
6
their due process claim. When combined with the manner in which that practice is being
7
implemented, e.g., the lack of any effective procedures or protocols for notifying the
8
parents about their childrens’ whereabouts or ensuring communication between the parents
9
and children, and the use of the children as tools in the parents’ criminal and immigration
10
proceedings, (see Pls.’ Supp. Mem. in Supp. of Classwide Prelim. Inj., Ex. 29 ¶¶ 8, 14), a
11
finding of likelihood of success is assured. A practice of this sort implemented in this way
12
is likely to be “so egregious, so outrageous, that it may fairly be said to shock the
13
contemporary conscience,” Lewis, 523 U.S. at 847 n.8, interferes with rights “‘implicit in
14
the concept of ordered liberty[,]’” Rochin v. Cal., 342 U.S. 165, 169 (1952) (quoting Palko
15
v. State of Conn., 302 U.S. 319, 325 (1937)), and is so “‘brutal’ and ‘offensive’ that it
16
[does] not comport with traditional ideas of fair play and decency.” Breithaupt v. Abram,
17
352 U.S. 432, 435 (1957).
For all of these reasons, the Court finds there is a likelihood of success on Plaintiffs’
18
19
due process claim.
20
B.
Irreparable Injury
21
Turning to the next factor, Plaintiffs must show they are “‘likely to suffer irreparable
22
harm in the absence of preliminary relief.’” Hernandez v. Sessions, 872 F.3d 976, 994 (9th
23
Cir. 2017) (quoting Winter, 555 U.S. at 20). “‘It is well established that the deprivation of
24
constitutional rights unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.’”
25
Melendres v. Arpaio, 695 F.3d 990, 1002 (9th Cir. 2012) (internal quotation marks
26
omitted). As explained, Plaintiffs have demonstrated the likelihood of a deprivation of
27
their constitutional rights, and thus they have satisfied this factor.
Id. (quoting
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The injury in this case, however, deserves special mention. That injury is the
2
separation of a parent from his or her child, which the Ninth Circuit has repeatedly found
3
constitutes irreparable harm. See Leiva–Perez v. Holder, 640 F.3d 962, 969–70 (9th Cir.
4
2011); Washington v. Trump, 847 F.3d 1151, 1169 (9th Cir. 2017) (identifying “separated
5
families” as an irreparable harm).
6
Furthermore, the record in this case reflects that the separations at issue have been
7
agonizing for the parents who have endured them. One of those parents, Mr. U., an asylum
8
seeker from Kyrgyzstan, submitted a declaration in this case in which he stated that after
9
he was told he was going to be separated from his son he “felt as though [he] was having
10
a heart attack.” (Reply in Supp. of Mot. for Class Cert., Ex. 21 ¶ 4.) Another asylum-
11
seeking parent from El Salvador who was separated from her two sons writes,
12
13
14
15
The separation from my sons has been incredibly hard, because I have never
been away from them before. I do not want my children to think that I
abandoned them. [My children] are so attached to me. [One of my children]
used to sleep in bed with me every night while [my other child] slept in his
own bed in the same room.… It hurts me to think how anxious and distressed
they must be without me.
16
17
(Reply in Supp. of Mot. for Class Cert., Ex. 24 ¶ 9.) And another asylum-seeking parent
18
from Honduras described having to place her crying 18-month old son in a car seat in a
19
government vehicle, not being able to comfort him, and her crying as the officers “took
20
[her] son away.” (Reply in Supp. of Mot. for Class Cert., Ex. 25 ¶ 7.) There has even been
21
a report that one father committed suicide in custody after being separated from his wife
22
and three-year-old child.
23
Separated From Family is Found Dead in Texas Jail in an Apparent Suicide, L.A. TIMES
24
(June 9, 2018, 5:35 PM), http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-patrol-suicide-
25
20180609-story.html.
26
27
See Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Honduran Migrant Who Was
The parents, however, are not the only ones suffering from the separations. One of
the amici in this case, Children’s Defense Fund, states,
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4
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there is ample evidence that separating children from their mothers or fathers
leads to serious, negative consequences to children’s health and development.
Forced separation disrupts the parent-child relationship and puts children at
increased risk for both physical and mental illness.... And the psychological
distress, anxiety, and depression associated with separation from a parent
would follow the children well after the immediate period of separation—
even after eventual reunification with a parent or other family.
6
7
(ECF No. 17-11 at 3.) Other evidence before the Court reflects that “separating children
8
from parents is a highly destabilizing, traumatic experience that has long term
9
consequences on child well-being, safety, and development.” (ECF No. 17-13 at 2.) That
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
evidence reflects:
Separation from family leaves children more vulnerable to exploitation and
abuse, no matter what the care setting. In addition, traumatic separation from
parents creates toxic stress in children and adolescents that can profoundly
impact their development. Strong scientific evidence shows that toxic stress
disrupts the development of brain architecture and other organ systems, and
increases the risk for stress-related disease and cognitive impairment well into
adult years. Studies have shown that children who experience such traumatic
events can suffer from symptoms of anxiety and post-traumatic stress
disorder, have poorer behavioral and educational outcomes, and experience
higher rates of poverty and food insecurity.
18
19
(ECF No. 17-13 at 2.) And Martin Guggenheim, the Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of
20
Clinical Law at New York University School of Law and Founding Member of the Center
21
for Family Representation, states:
22
23
24
25
Children are at risk of suffering great emotional harm when they are removed
from their loved ones. And children who have traveled from afar and made
their way to this country to seek asylum are especially at risk of suffering
irreversible psychological harm when wrested from the custody of the parent
or caregiver with whom they traveled to the United States.
26
(Mem. in Supp. of Classwide Prelim. Inj., Ex. 17 ¶ 16.) All of this evidence, combined
27
with the constitutional violation alleged here, conclusively shows that Plaintiffs and the
28
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class members are likely to suffer irreparable injury if a preliminary injunction does not
2
issue.
3
C.
Balance of Equities
4
Turning to the next factor, “[t]o obtain a preliminary injunction, a plaintiff must also
5
demonstrate that ‘the balance of equities tips in his favor.’” Hernandez, 872 F.3d at 995
6
(quoting Winter, 555 U.S. at 20). As with irreparable injury, when a plaintiff establishes
7
“a likelihood that Defendants’ policy violates the U.S. Constitution, Plaintiffs have also
8
established that both the public interest and the balance of the equities favor a preliminary
9
injunction.” Arizona Dream Act Coalition v. Brewer, 757 F.3d 1053, 1069 (9th Cir. 2014).
10
Plaintiffs here assert the balance of equities weighs in favor of an injunction in this
11
case. Specifically, Plaintiffs argue Defendants would not suffer any hardship if the
12
preliminary injunction is issued because the Government “cannot suffer harm from an
13
injunction that merely ends an unlawful practice[.]” Rodriguez v. Robbins, 715 F.3d 1127,
14
1145 (9th Cir. 2013); see also Arizona Dream Act Coalition, 757 F.3d at 1069 (quoting
15
Melendres v. Arpaio, 695 F.3d 990, 1002 (9th Cir. 2012)) (stating balance of equities favors
16
“‘prevent[ing] the violation of a party’s constitutional rights.’”). When the absence of harm
17
to the Government is weighed against the harms to Plaintiffs set out above, Plaintiffs argue
18
this factor weighs in their favor. The Court agrees.
19
The primary harm Defendants assert here is the possibility that an injunction would
20
have a negative impact on their ability to enforce the criminal and immigration laws.
21
However, the injunction here—preventing the separation of parents from their children and
22
ordering the reunification of parents and children that have been separated—would do
23
nothing of the sort. The Government would remain free to enforce its criminal and
24
immigration laws, and to exercise its discretion in matters of release and detention
25
consistent with law. See EO §§ 1, 3(a) & (e) (discussing Flores v. Sessions, CV 85-4544);
26
see also Comm. of Cent. Am. Refugees v. I.N.S., 795 F.2d 1434, 1439-40 (9th Cir. 1986)
27
(stating “prudential considerations preclude[] interference with the Attorney General’s
28
[exercise of] discretion” in selecting the detention facilities where aliens are to be
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detained). It would just have to do so in a way that preserves the class members’
2
constitutional rights to family association and integrity. See Rodriguez, 715 F.3d at 1146
3
(“While ICE is entitled to carry out its duty to enforce the mandates of Congress, it must
4
do so in a manner consistent with our constitutional values.”) Thus, this factor also weighs
5
in favor of issuing the injunction.
6
D.
Public Interest
7
The final factor for consideration is the public interest. See Hernandez, 872 F.3d at
8
996 (quoting Stormans, Inc. v. Selecky, 586 F.3d 1109, 1139 (9th Cir. 2009)) (“When, as
9
here, ‘the impact of an injunction reaches beyond the parties, carrying with it a potential
10
for public consequences, the public interest will be relevant to whether the district court
11
grants the preliminary injunction.’”) To obtain the requested relief, “Plaintiffs must
12
demonstrate that the public interest favors granting the injunction ‘in light of [its] likely
13
consequences,’ i.e., ‘consequences [that are not] too remote, insubstantial, or speculative
14
and [are] supported by evidence.’” Id. (quoting Stormans, 586 F.3d at 1139). “‘Generally,
15
public interest concerns are implicated when a constitutional right has been violated,
16
because all citizens have a stake in upholding the Constitution.’” Id. (quoting Preminger
17
v. Principi, 422 F.3d 815, 826 (9th Cir. 2005)).
18
This case involves two important public interests: the interest in enforcing the
19
country’s criminal and immigration laws and the constitutional liberty interest “of parents
20
in the care, custody, and control of their children[,]” which “is perhaps the oldest of the
21
fundamental liberty interests recognized by” the Supreme Court. Troxel v. Granville, 530
22
U.S. 57, 65 (2000). Both of these interests are valid and important, and both can be served
23
by the issuance of an injunction in this case.
24
As stated, the public’s interest in enforcing the criminal and immigration laws of this
25
country would be unaffected by issuance of the requested injunction. The Executive
26
Branch is free to prosecute illegal border crossers and institute immigration proceedings
27
against aliens, and would remain free to do so if an injunction were issued. Plaintiffs do
28
not seek to enjoin the Executive Branch from carrying out its duties in that regard.
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What Plaintiffs do seek by way of the requested injunction is to uphold their rights
2
to family integrity and association while their immigration proceedings are underway. This
3
right, specifically, the relationship between parent and child, is “constitutionally
4
protected,” Quilloin v. Walcott, 434 U.S. 246, 255 (1978), and “well established.”
5
Rosenbaum v. Washoe Cty., 663 F.3d 1071, 1079 (9th Cir. 2011). The public interest in
6
upholding and protecting that right in the circumstances presented here would be served
7
by issuance of the requested injunction. See Arizona Dream Act Coalition, 757 F.3d at
8
1069 (quoting Valle del Sol Inc. v. Whiting, 732 F.3d 1006, 1029 (9th Cir. 2013) (“‘[I]t is
9
clear that it would not be equitable or in the public’s interest to allow the state … to violate
10
the requirements of federal law, especially when there are no adequate remedies
11
available.’”) Accordingly, this factor, too, weighs in favor of issuing the injunction.
12
III.
13
CONCLUSION
14
The unfolding events—the zero tolerance policy, EO and DHS Fact Sheet—serve to
15
corroborate Plaintiffs’ allegations. The facts set forth before the Court portray reactive
16
governance—responses to address a chaotic circumstance of the Government’s own
17
making. They belie measured and ordered governance, which is central to the concept of
18
due process enshrined in our Constitution. This is particularly so in the treatment of
19
migrants, many of whom are asylum seekers and small children. The extraordinary remedy
20
of classwide preliminary injunction is warranted based on the evidence before the Court.
21
For the reasons set out above, the Court hereby GRANTS Plaintiffs’ motion for classwide
22
preliminary injunction, and finds and orders as follows:
23
(1)
Defendants, and their officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and all those
24
who are in active concert or participation with them, are preliminarily enjoined from
25
detaining Class Members in DHS custody without and apart from their minor
26
children, absent a determination that the parent is unfit or presents a danger to the
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child, unless the parent affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily declines to be
2
reunited with the child in DHS custody.11
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(2)
If Defendants choose to release Class Members from DHS custody, Defendants, and
4
their officers, agents, servants, employees and attorneys, and all those who are in
5
active concert or participation with them, are preliminary enjoined from continuing
6
to detain the minor children of the Class Members and must release the minor child
7
to the custody of the Class Member, unless there is a determination that the parent
8
is unfit or presents a danger to the child, or the parent affirmatively, knowingly, and
9
voluntarily declines to be reunited with the child.
10
(3)
Unless there is a determination that the parent is unfit or presents a danger to the
11
child, or the parent affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily declines to be reunited
12
with the child:
13
(a)
14
under the age of five (5) within fourteen (14) days of the entry of this Order; and
15
(b)
16
(5) and over within thirty (30) days of the entry of this Order.
17
(4)
Defendants must reunify all Class Members with their minor children who are
Defendants must reunify all Class Members with their minor children age five
Defendants must immediately take all steps necessary to facilitate regular
18
communication between Class Members and their children who remain in ORR
19
custody, ORR foster care, or DHS custody. Within ten (10) days, Defendants must
20
provide parents telephonic contact with their children if the parent is not already in
21
contact with his or her child.
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“Fitness” is an important factor in determining whether to separate parent from child. In
the context of this case, and enforcement of criminal and immigration laws at the border,
“fitness” could include a class member’s mental health, or potential criminal involvement
in matters other than “improper entry” under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a), (see EO § 1), among other
matters. Fitness factors ordinarily would be objective and clinical, and would allow for the
proper exercise of discretion by government officials.
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(5)
Defendants must immediately take all steps necessary to facilitate regular
2
communication between and among all executive agencies responsible for the
3
custody, detention or shelter of Class Members and the custody and care of their
4
children, including at least ICE, CBP, BOP, and ORR, regarding the location and
5
well-being of the Class Members’ children.
6
(6)
Defendants, and their officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and all those
7
who are in active concert or participation with them, are preliminarily enjoined from
8
removing any Class Members without their child, unless the Class Member
9
affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily declines to be reunited with the child prior
10
to the Class Member’s deportation, or there is a determination that the parent is unfit
11
or presents a danger to the child.
12
(7)
This Court retains jurisdiction to entertain such further proceedings and to enter such
13
further orders as may be necessary or appropriate to implement and enforce the
14
provisions of this Order and Preliminary Injunction.
15
A status conference will be held on July 6, 2018, at 12:00 noon, to discuss all
16
necessary matters. A notice of teleconference information sheet will be provided in a
17
separate order.
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: June 26, 2018
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EXCLUSIVE
DALLAS—U.S. government officials recently told four immigrant women that they must pay for DNA tests in order to be reunited with their
children, according to the shelter that housed the women.
The tests are the latest ad hoc effort by the Trump administration to reunite families it had separated—in some cases because authorities took
documents from adults proving they are related to their children. The tests are being administered by a private contractor on behalf of the
Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees the care and housing of children. HHS has
refused to name the contractor, which may be a violation of federal law.
“None of them have the money [for the tests], so it’s going to fall back on us to push back on that,” said Ruben Garcia, the director of
Annunciation House, an immigrant shelter in El Paso where the women are staying.
Three of the women are mothers of the children, Garcia said, and the fourth is attempting to reunite with her brother, a three and half-yearold boy.
Garcia said that the tests likely cost money that many immigrants entering the country with little more than the clothes on their backs don’t
have. Iliana Holguin, an immigration attorney in El Paso who works with Annunciation House, said the government made some of her clients
pay between $700 to $800 to prove their relationship to a relative as part of their citizenship cases.
“The government wants the parents to foot the bill for the DNA testing when they’re the ones that caused the need for DNA testing,” Holguin
said. “It’s incredible.”
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, responsible for the DNA testing, told The Daily Beast it “provides DNA testing at no cost to verify
parentage.”
Solution for Self-Imposed Problem
ORR requires DNA testing in some cases to verify adult immigrants are related to children in ORR’s custody, before the children can be
released to the adults who have either been paroled or are to be deported. The tests are often required, according Garcia, when parents’ have
had their paperwork regarding their children taken by Customs and Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (CBP and ICE
did not immediately respond to requests for comment.)
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“When these families come in, Customs and Border Protection takes away the documents from parents and puts them in their file,” Garcia
said. “In the cases where they’ve been separated from their children, ORR then says, ‘You’re going to need to provide the documents that CBP
took.’”
And when the immigrants can’t, Garcia said, ORR tells parents they must take a DNA test.
It’s unclear how many immigrants have been told they’d have to pay for DNA tests. Other immigration attorneys reached by The Daily Beast
said their clients had not been asked to pay for DNA tests.
Greg Chen of the American Immigration Lawyers Association called the tests a “delay tactic” by a government that is “primarily interested in
detaining the children and parents to put pressure on them to accept deportation before they have the opportunity to get a fair hearing on
their asylum claims and other claims for relief.”
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“In a specific case when there’s evidence of fraud DNA testing may be warranted, but it should not be done across the board especially when
proof of familial relationship can be demonstrated in other ways,” Chen said.
Those other ways include the government documents that are taken from immigrants once they’re caught for crossing the border, verification
that a simple phone call from ORR to CBP or ICE could achieve, Garcia said.
“But when I go to ORR, they say, ‘We don’t talk to immigration [authorities],” he said.
Government Keeps Contractor Secret
HHS has refused to reveal the identity of the contractor who is performing the DNA tests. A search of federal contract databases showed no
recent contracts for DNA work with the HHS office which oversees ORR.
“DNA contract information is not available in a readily reportable format,” HHS' Administration of Children and Families office told The
Daily Beast in a statement. A day earlier, that same office said on its website it had “not consulted with the contractor” to get permission to
release the contract.”
Under federal law, government agencies have 30 days from the date of award to release certain basic contract information to a federal
database online.
“Agencies don't need permission from contractors to publicize info on the contract. This is the public's business and taxpayers dollars are
being used,” Nick Schwellenbach of the Project on Government Oversight told The Daily Beast. “Agencies often make this information
available immediately.”
Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union and the government agreed in a court filing on Monday “the federal government will not use
the DNA samples or test results for any purpose besides verifying parentage, and will ensure that the DNA samples and test results are
destroyed afterwards.” In a posting on its website, HHS pledged to destroy DNA swabs and test results after parental relationships had been
confirmed.
Roots in the Obama Administration
The Trump administration isn’t the first to use DNA tests to verify relationships between immigrants or refugees. Under the Obama
administration, the Department of Homeland Security and State Department initiated a DNA testing pilot program for refugees from certain
African countries in the “Priority Three” program that reunited refugees already inside the U.S. with relatives still abroad. Reports of
widespread fraud in the Priority Three program (preliminary testing showed only 20 percent of tested immigrants had a biological
relationship with claimed relatives abroad) prompted the closure of the program in 2008 before it was reopened in 2012.
A 2010 public notice warned that applicants to the Priority Three program would be responsible for the cost of DNA testing, but “successful
applicants may be eligible for reimbursement of DNA test costs.”
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Garcia said he has heard that test fees can be waived, but has yet to hear specifically from ORR how to apply for those waivers.
“I don’t know if it’s a situation where if you don’t ask about the waivers they don’t tell you,” he said.
DNA tests continued in 2014, when a wave of unaccompanied children began fleeing from gang violence in Central and South America and
arriving at the southern border. Then, the Obama administration instituted another initiative similar to Priority Three called the Central
American Minors (CAM) program. Many refugee children arrived looking to reunite with parents or relatives already inside the U.S. The
CAM program sought to provide a safer alternative to the often dangerous journey unaccompanied children took through Central America
and to the border by allowing family members to apply for reunification legally.
The program required DNA testing to prove a biological relationship with migrant children. As an HHS fact sheet noted, parents inside the
U.S. would pay for the cost of testing up front and would “be reimbursed for testing costs ONLY if ALL claimed and tested biological
relationships are confirmed by DNA test results.”
The Trump administration ended the program in 2017.
For now, the tests being performed on immigrants caught up in Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy are just another obstacle for mothers and
fathers who have already faced plenty of them in order to be reunited with their children, Garcia said.
“Here’s what I want from ORR: it’s my understanding that DNA test results can be quick or slow, depending on whichever you want. So why
don’t you take the responsibility, ORR, and get this done quickly and get these kids back with their parents. Don’t give me this, ‘There’s too
many to do and it’s going to take a while,’ or ‘There’s a big long line,’ because you’re the one who took the kids away in the first place, so fix
it.”
Justin Glawe
@JustinGlawe
Adam Rawnsley
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
CIVIL MINUTES—GENERAL
Case No.
Date
CV 85-4544-DMG (AGRx)
July 9, 2018
Title Jenny L. Flores, et al. v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, et al.
Present: The Honorable
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DOLLY M. GEE, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
KANE TIEN
Deputy Clerk
NOT REPORTED
Court Reporter
Attorneys Present for Plaintiff(s)
None Present
Attorneys Present for Defendant(s)
None Present
Proceedings: IN CHAMBERS - ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’ “EX PARTE
APPLICATION FOR LIMITED RELIEF FROM SETTLEMENT
AGREEMENT” [435]
On June 20, 2018, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order requiring “[t]he
Attorney General [to] promptly file a request with [this Court] to modify the [Flores
Agreement], in a manner that would permit the Secretary [of Homeland Security], under present
resource constraints, to detain alien families together throughout the pendency of criminal
proceedings for improper entry or any removal or other immigration proceedings.” See
Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation, Exec. Order No. 13841, 83
Fed. Reg. 29435, 29435 (June 20, 2018) [hereinafter Exec. Order No. 13841]. On June 21, 2018,
Defendants filed an Ex Parte Application seeking the following “limited” relief: (1) an
exemption from the Flores Agreement’s release provisions so that Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (“ICE”) may detain alien minors who have arrived with their parent or legal
guardian together in ICE family residential facilities, and (2) an exemption from the Flores
Agreement’s state licensure requirement. [Doc. # 435.] Defendants claim that such relief is
warranted under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60(b)(5) and 60(b)(6). See Ex Parte Appl.
at 10 [Doc. # 435-1].1
Although Defendants did not notice their Ex Parte Application for a hearing, they seek “a
prompt hearing on [their] request for immediate relief, together with any additional proceedings
the Court believes appropriate.” See id. at 21. Plaintiffs filed an opposition to the Ex Parte
Application [Doc. # 450], as did the American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) [Doc. # 451] and
the City of Los Angeles, the City of Chicago, the City of New York, and the City & County of
San Francisco (“The Cities”) [Doc. # 453] as amici curiae.
Defendants’ Ex Parte Application is a thinly veiled motion for reconsideration without
any meaningful effort to comply with the requirements of Local Rule 7-18. On July 24, 2015,
1
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the Court denied Defendants’ motion seeking to modify the Flores Agreement on the same
grounds now raised anew in Defendants’ Ex Parte Application. See Defs.’ Motion to Amend
at 13, 17–21, 27–28, 30–33 [Doc. # 120]; July 24, 2015 Order at 19–25 [Doc. # 177]; Ex Parte
Appl. at 15–16 [Doc. # 435-1] (repeating Defendants’ position that detaining family units in
unlicensed family residential facilities deters others from unlawfully entering the country). In
short, Defendants have run afoul of Local Rule 7-18 because the Ex Parte Application
“repeat[s] . . . oral or written argument made in support of” the earlier Motion to Amend. C.D.
Cal. L.R. 7-18.
Even if Local Rule 7-18 did not bar Defendants’ Ex Parte Application, it would still fail
under a Rule 60(b) analysis. The Court’s July 24, 2015 Order analyzed in great detail the
relevant Flores Agreement language and applicable legal authorities, responding to the same
issues raised in Defendants’ current Ex Parte Application. In the absence of a showing of
changed circumstances that the parties could not have foreseen at the time of their Agreement, it
is unnecessary to replow the same familiar territory. See Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk Cty. Jail, 502
U.S. 367, 383 (1992) (“Ordinarily, . . . modification should not be granted where a party relies
upon events that actually were anticipated at the time it entered into a decree. . . . [A] party
seeking modification of a consent decree [under Rule 60(b)(5)] bears the burden of establishing
that a significant change in circumstances warrants revision of the decree.”); United States v.
Alpine Land & Reservoir Co., 984 F.2d 1047, 1049 (9th Cir. 1993) (“[Rule 60(b)(6)] is to be
utilized only where extraordinary circumstances prevented a party from taking timely action to
prevent or correct an erroneous judgment.”).
At bottom, Defendants’ arguments rest in part on the premise that the July 24, 2015
Order resulted in a “3 to 5-fold increase in the number of illegal family border crossings”
because it led arriving families to believe that Defendants would rather release them than
separate the children from their families. See, e.g., Ex Parte Appl. at 3 [Doc. # 435-1].
Assuming arguendo that Defendants’ representations regarding the increase in border crossings
are correct (i.e., 68,445 apprehensions in 2014; 39,838 in 2015; 77,674 in 2016; and 75,622 in
2017), they do not establish that the Court’s July 24, 2015 Order in any way caused this “surge.”
See id. at 3, 9. Defendants’ reasoning suffers from the “‘logical fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter
hoc’ . . . literally, ‘after this, therefore because of this[.]’” See Kozulin v. INS, 218 F.3d 1112,
1117 (9th Cir. 2000) (quoting Huskey v. City of San Jose, 204 F.3d 893, 899 (9th Cir. 2000)).
Any number of other factors could have caused the increase in illegal border crossings, including
civil strife, economic degradation, and fear of death in the migrants’ home countries. See, e.g.,
Govindaiah Decl. at ¶¶ 1–3 (between July 1, 2017 and June 16, 2018, RAICES provided legal
assistance to 5,177 family units detained at Karnes County Residential Center; approximately
5,000 of those family units received positive credible fear determinations from an asylum officer
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or an immigration judge) [Doc. # 451-1]; Adam Cox & Ryan Goodman, Detention of Migrant
Families as “Deterrence”:
Ethical Flaws & Empirical Doubts, justsecurity.org
(June 22, 2018), https://www.justsecurity.org/58354/detention-migrant-families-deterrenceethical-flaws-empirical-doubts/ (concluding that “there’s not even a correlational relationship
between [the July 24, 2015 Order] and family migration,” and pointing out that the apprehension
patterns for accompanied and unaccompanied minors after the decision did not differ from one
another). As it did before, the Court finds Defendants’ logic “dubious” and unconvincing.2 See
July 24, 2015 Order at 11 [Doc. # 177].
Moreover, the Flores Agreement has required accompanied minors to be placed in
licensed facilities since 1997. See Flores Agreement at ¶ 19 [Doc. # 101]. Defendants did not
request an alteration of their legal obligations until many years later in 2015 and again now. The
Court’s July 24, 2015 Order merely reaffirmed Defendants’ pre-existing obligations under the
Agreement, and could not have caused the surge in border crossings any more than the
implementation of the Flores Agreement itself caused the numerous surges that occurred after
1997. See Ex Parte Appl. at 3 [Doc. # 435-1].
Additionally, the relief Defendants seek is improper because their proposed modifications
are not “suitably tailored to the changed circumstance[,]” if any. Rufo, 502 U.S. at 391
(emphasis added). Instead, Defendants seek to light a match to the Flores Agreement and ask
this Court to upend the parties’ agreement by judicial fiat.
The Flores Agreement allows Defendants up to five days to place minors in licensed
programs if they are apprehended in districts that do not have those programs, or “as
expeditiously as possible” if there is an “influx of minors into the United States[.]” See Flores
Agreement at ¶ 12.A. In 2015, the Court found that the Flores Agreement could accommodate
Defendants’ request for a 20-day deadline during an influx.3 Yet, Defendants now seek to hold
2
Because Defendants fail to show that the Flores Agreement and the July 24, 2015 Order are responsible
for the so-called “surge” in illegal family border crossings, the Court need not address Plaintiffs’ and the ACLU’s
argument that general deterrence is not a permissible purpose of civil detention. See Pls.’ Opp’n at 11 [Doc. # 450];
ACLU’s Opp’n at 8–11 [Doc. # 451]; see also July 24, 2015 Order at 24 n.11 (declining to address this issue
because Defendants failed to show that detaining families would deter future illegal border crossings) [Doc. # 177].
3
Paragraph 12.A provides in pertinent part that “[t]he INS will transfer a minor . . . to a [licensed
program] . . . within five (5) days [if the minor is apprehended in a district that does not have a licensed program
with space available], except . . . in the event of an emergency or influx of minors into the United States, in which
case the INS shall place all minors [into licensed placements] as expeditiously as possible[.]” The Court previously
observed that, during an influx, a 20-day delay in placement may comply with Paragraph 12.A if that is “as fast as
Defendants, in good faith and in the exercise of due diligence, can possibly go in screening family members for
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minors in indefinite detention in unlicensed facilities, which would constitute a fundamental and
material breach of the parties’ Agreement. Cf. Flores v. Lynch, 828 F.3d 898, 910 (9th Cir.
2016) (holding that exempting accompanied minors from the Flores Agreement was not a
suitably tailored response to the influx in family units crossing the border).
Defendants also assert that “families frequently fail to appear at the required
proceedings” if they are released from custody. See Ex Parte Appl. at 2–3 (citing Homan Decl.
at ¶ 30 (attesting that from July 2014 to July 2015, there were 41,297 cases involving family
apprehensions and 11,976 removal orders issued in absentia) [Doc. # 184-1]) [Doc. # 435-1].
But see Ingrid Eagly, et al., Detaining Families: A Study of Asylum Adjudication in Family
Detention,
106
Calif.
L.
Rev.
785,
847–48
(2018),
available
at
http://www.californialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4-Eagly_Shafer_Whalley.pdf
(Executive Office of Immigration Review data shows that between 2001 and 2016, 86% of
family detainees attended all of their court hearings). The evidentiary record is unclear as to the
accuracy of Defendants’ assertion. Even assuming Defendants are correct, however, this risk
was plainly contemplated by the parties when they executed the Flores Agreement in 1997. See,
e.g., Flores Agreement at ¶ 24.A (providing that a minor in deportation proceedings shall be
afforded a bond redetermination hearing). It does not support a blanket non-release policy or
warrant the Agreement’s modification or abrogation.
After submitting their Ex Parte Application, Defendants filed a “Notice of
Compliance[,]” wherein they contend that a preliminary injunction recently entered in Ms. L v.
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, No. CV 18-0428 DMS (MDD), 2018 WL 3129486
(S.D. Cal. June 26. 2018), allows them to nullify the release and state licensure provisions of the
Flores Agreement. See Notice of Compl. at 5–8 [Doc. # 447]. Ms. L concluded that a class of
certain parents would likely succeed on the merits of their due process challenge to the “practice
of separating [certain parents] from their minor children, and failing to reunify [parents] with
those children, without any showing the parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child[.]” See
Ms. L, 2018 WL 3129486, at *7. The District Court ordered ICE and other governmental
officers and agencies to reunite these parents with their children (the former of whom were in
Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) custody) within 14 to 30 days of that Order, unless
(inter alia) “the parent affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily declines to be reunited with the
child in DHS custody.” See id. at *11–12.
reasonable or credible fear[.]” See Order re Resp. to Order to Show Cause at 10 [Doc. # 189]. The 20-day deadline
arose from Defendants’ own request for that additional time to comply with their contractual obligations during an
influx. See Def.’s Resp. to Order to Show Cause at 14, 23–24, 34 n.33 [Doc. # 184].
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Defendants advance a tortured interpretation of the Flores Agreement in an attempt to
show that the Ms. L preliminary injunction permits them to suspend the Flores release and
licensure provisions. They claim that detaining Flores Class Members with their parents
complies with Paragraph 14’s command that Class Members be “release[d] from . . . custody
without unnecessary delay” because separating a Class Member from a parent would violate the
Ms. L Order. See Notice of Compl. at 6 (emphasis in original) (quoting Flores Agreement at
¶ 14 [Doc. # 101]) [Doc. # 447]. Similarly, Defendants contend that indefinite detention in ICE
unlicensed family residential facilities is consistent with: (1) their obligation to transfer minors
to licensed placements “as expeditiously as possible” if there is an influx of minors, and
(2) Paragraph 12.A’s proviso that such transfer is unnecessary when “any court decree or courtapproved settlement” provides otherwise. See id. at 7 n.1 (quoting Flores Agreement at
¶ 12.A.2–3 [Doc. # 101]). The Court rejects this strained construction of the Flores Agreement it
renders meaningless paragraph 12.A (deadlines for transfers to licensed placements), paragraph
14 (persons to whom Class Members may be released), paragraph 18 (efforts toward release and
reunification), and paragraph 19 (placement of Class Members in licensed programs).4 See Pinel
v. Aurora Loan Servs., LLC, 814 F. Supp. 2d 930, 943 (N.D. Cal. 2011) (“Courts must interpret
contractual language in a manner [that] gives force and effect to every provision, and not in a
way [that] renders some clauses nugatory, inoperative or meaningless.” (alteration in original)
(quoting City of Atascadero v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., 68 Cal. App. 4th
445, 473 (1998))); O’Neil v. Bunge Corp., 365 F.3d 820, 822 (9th Cir. 2004) (“[T]he
construction and enforcement of settlement agreements are governed by principles of local law
which apply to interpretation of contracts generally.” (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting
United Commercial Ins. Serv., Inc. v. Paymaster Corp., 962 F.2d 853, 856 (9th Cir. 1992))).
To the extent Defendants claim that the Ms. L Order supports their request for
modification, their argument fares no better because they have not shown that Ms. L required
Defendants to violate the Flores Agreement or that compliance with the Ms. L Order would
“directly conflict” with the Flores Agreement’s release and state licensure provisions. See
Flores v. Sessions, 862 F.3d 863, 874 (9th Cir. 2017) (noting that this is the standard for
modifying a decree on change of law grounds). Absolutely nothing prevents Defendants from
reconsidering their current blanket policy of family detention and reinstating prosecutorial
discretion. See Exec. Order No. 13841, 83 Fed. Reg. at 29435; see also 8 U.S.C.
§ 1226(a)(2)(A) (providing that the Attorney General has the discretion to release certain aliens
4
There is yet another flaw in Defendants’ reasoning—i.e., they seek to indefinitely detain all migrant
children who have arrived with their parents or legal guardians, see Ex Parte Appl. at 21 [Doc. # 435-1], even
though the Ms. L preliminary injunction by its terms excludes a number of family units from its scope, including
those who are subject to Executive Order 13841, see Ms. L, 2018 WL 3129486, at *3 n.5.
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on a bond of at least $1,500); 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A) (providing that the Attorney General has
the discretion to parole certain aliens).
Further, detained parents who are entitled to reunification under the Ms. L Order may
“affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily decline[] to be reunited” with their children, see
Ms. L., 2018 WL 3129486, at *11, and all parties admit that these parents may also affirmatively
waive their children’s rights to prompt release and placement in state-licensed facilities, see
Notice of Compl. at 9 (“[P]laintiffs in this case have always agreed that detention of the family
together is permissible if the parent consents.” (emphasis added)) [Doc. # 447]; Pls.’ Opp’n to Ex
Parte Appl. at 7 (asserting that Class Members’ have the right—“subject to opt out by a
parent—to be released or placed under the terms of the Agreement” (emphasis added)) [Doc.
# 450]; see also Fields v. Palmdale Sch. Dist., 427 F.3d 1197, 1204 (9th Cir. 2005) (“[T]he right
of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children is a
fundamental liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.”); Wyler Summit P’ship v.
Turner Broad. Sys., 135 F.3d 658, 662 (9th Cir. 1998) (“It is a well settled maxim that a party
may waive the benefit of any condition or provision made in his behalf, no matter to what
manner it may have been made or secured.” (emphasis omitted) (quoting Knarston v. Manhattan
Life Ins. Co., 140 Cal. 57, 63 (1903))); Jeffrey Kavin, Inc. v. Frye, 264 Cal. App. 4th 35, 45
(2012) (“It is well settled a contracting party may waive conditions placed in a contract solely for
that party’s benefit.” (quoting Sabo v. Fasano, 154 Cal. App. 3d 502, 505 (1984)) (internal
quotation marks omitted)). Given the situation arising from Defendants’ earlier family
separation policy, detained parents may choose to exercise their Ms. L right to reunification or to
stand on their children’s Flores Agreement rights. Defendants may not make this choice for
them.5
Lastly, Defendants have known for years that there is “no state licensing readily available
for facilities that house both adults and children.” See Defs.’ Motion to Amend at 32 (filed on
Feb. 27, 2015) [Doc. # 120]. Yet, Defendants have not shown that they made any efforts to
resolve this issue since July 2015, let alone 1997, nor have they demonstrated that any such
attempt would be futile. To the contrary, certain local governments charged with enforcing state
child welfare laws have indicated their “strong interest . . . in the continued licensed regulation of
Defendants’ child welfare programs.” See The Cities’ Opp’n at 13 [Doc. # 453]. Given that the
Flores Agreement has “unambiguously applie[d] both to accompanied and unaccompanied
minors” for over 20 years, see Flores, 828 F.3d at 901, Defendants cannot now complain that the
5
The Court also observes that there is no inconsistency between the Flores Agreement and Executive
Order No. 13841. See Exec. Order No. 13841, 83 Fed. Reg. at 29435 (“The Secretary of Homeland Security . . .
shall, to the extent permitted by law . . . maintain custody of alien families during the pendency of any criminal
improper entry or immigration proceedings involving their members.” (emphasis added)).
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
CIVIL MINUTES—GENERAL
Case No.
CV 85-4544-DMG (AGRx)
Title Jenny L. Flores, et al. v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, et al.
Date
July 9, 2018
Page
7 of 7
Agreement leaves them no choice but to separate parents from their children and violate the
Ms. L Order.
It is apparent that Defendants’ Application is a cynical attempt, on an ex parte basis, to
shift responsibility to the Judiciary for over 20 years of Congressional inaction and ill-considered
Executive action that have led to the current stalemate. The parties voluntarily agreed to the
terms of the Flores Agreement more than two decades ago. The Court did not force the parties
into the agreement nor did it draft the contractual language. Its role is merely to interpret and
enforce the clear and unambiguous language to which the parties agreed, applying wellestablished principles of law. Regardless, what is certain is that the children who are the
beneficiaries of the Flores Agreement’s protections and who are now in Defendants’ custody are
blameless. They are subject to the decisions made by adults over whom they have no control. In
implementing the Agreement, their best interests should be paramount.
In sum, Defendants have not shown that applying the Flores Agreement “prospectively is
no longer equitable[,]” see Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(5), or that “manifest injustice” will result if the
Agreement is not modified, see United States v. Alpine Land & Reservoir Co., 984 F.2d 1047,
1049 (9th Cir. 1993). Of course, the parties are always free to meet and confer regarding any
contractual amendments on which they can mutually agree. This is basic contract law.
In light of the foregoing, the Court DENIES the Ex Parte Application because it is
procedurally improper and wholly without merit.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
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Exhibit U
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By LOUIS NELSON | 07/10/2018 09:23 AM EDT
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the solution to the government’s failure to meet
a deadline for reunifying separated undocumented parents with their children is for such
migrants to stop entering the U.S. illegally in the first place.
“Well, I have a solution. Tell people not to come to our country illegally. That's the solution.
Don't come to our country illegally. Come like other people do. Come legally,” he told
reporters on the White House’s south lawn Tuesday morning as he departed for his
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weeklong trip to Europe. “I'm saying this very simply: We have laws. We have borders. Don't
come to our country illegally. It's not a good thing.”
The president and his administration have come under heavy bipartisan criticism in recent
weeks over their policy of referring for criminal prosecution all people crossing the border
illegally, a practice that led to the separation of thousands of children from their parents.
After initially defending the practice and falsely insisting that only Congress could end it, the
president bowed to public pressure and signed an executive order mandating that families
be kept together.
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Despite the president’s order, the status of the already separated families remains unclear,
and the Trump administration on Monday missed a court-mandated deadline for reunifying
roughly 100 children under the age of 5 with their parents. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who
chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told CNN on Monday that the lack of
progress on reunifying families “boggles my mind.”
The family separations have prompted calls from some Democrats to abolish U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency whose charges include deportations.
Trump, in his Tuesday morning remarks to reporters, slammed calls to do away with ICE.
“The people that are fighting ICE, it's a disgrace. These people go into harm's way. There is
nobody under greater danger than the people from ICE,” he said. “We ought to support ICE,
not do what the Democrats are doing. Democrats want open borders, and they don't mind
crime. We want no crime, and we want borders where borders mean something, all right?”
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Exhibit V
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
BEFORE HONORABLE DANA M. SABRAW, JUDGE PRESIDING
_______________________________________
)
MS. L. AND MS. C.,
)
)CASE NO. 18CV0428-DMS
PETITIONERS-PLAINTIFFS,
)
)
VS.
)
)SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS
)TUESDAY JULY 10, 2018
ENFORCEMENT ("ICE"); U.S. DEPARTMENT
) 11:00 A.M. CALENDAR
OF HOMELAND SECURITY ("DHS"); U.S.
)
CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION ("CBP"); )
U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
)
SERVICES ("USCIS"); U.S. DEPARTMENT
)
OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ("HHS");
)
OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT ("ORR"); )
THOMAS HOMAN, ACTING DIRECTOR OF ICE;
)
GREG ARCHAMBEAULT, SAN DIEGO FIELD
)
OFFICE DIRECTOR, ICE; ADRIAN P. MACIAS, )
EL PASO FIELD DIRECTOR, ICE; FRANCES M. )
JACKSON, EL PASO ASSISTANT FIELD
)
OFFICE DIRECTOR, ICE; KIRSTJEN NIELSEN, )
SECRETARY OF DHS; JEFFERSON BEAUREGARD )
SESSIONS III, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE
)
UNITED STATES; L. FRANCIS CISSNA,
)
DIRECTOR OF USCIS; KEVIN K.
)
MCALEENAN, ACTING COMMISSIONER OF
)
CBP; PETE FLORES, SAN DIEGO FIELD
)
DIRECTOR, CBP; HECTOR A. MANCHA JR.,
)
EL PASO FIELD DIRECTOR, CBP;
)
ALEX AZAR, SECRETARY OF THE
)
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
)
SERVICES; SCOTT LLOYD, DIRECTOR
)
OF THE OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT, )
)
RESPONDENTS-DEFENDANTS.
)
---------------------------------------REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS
STATUS CONFERENCE
COUNSEL APPEARING:
FOR PLAINTIFF:
LEE GELERNT, ESQ.
ACLU IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT
125 BROAD STREET 18TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10004
BADIS VAKILI, ESQ.
ACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO
AND IMPERIAL COUNTIES
P.O. BOX 87131
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92138
STEPHAN B. KANG, ESQ.
ACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
39 DRUMM STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94111
FOR DEFENDANT:
SARAH B. FABIAN, ESQ.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
OFFICE OF IMMIGRATION LITIGATION
P.O. BOX 868
BEN FRANKLIN STATION
WASHINGTON, DC 20044
ADAM L. BRAVERMAN
INTERIM UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
BY: SAM BETTWY
ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY
880 FRONT STREET
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92101
REPORTED BY:
LEE ANN PENCE,
OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER
UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE
333 WEST BROADWAY, ROOM 1393
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92101
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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2018 - 11:07 A.M.
*
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*
NO. 1 ON CALENDAR, CASE NO.18CV0428,
THE CLERK:
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MS. L. VERSUS U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT; ON FOR
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STATUS CONFERENCE.
GOOD MORNING.
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THE COURT:
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MAY I HAVE APPEARANCES, PLEASE?
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MR. GELERNT:
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GOOD MORNING, YOUR HONOR.
GELERNT, FROM THE ACLU, FOR PLAINTIFFS.
STEPHAN KANG, YOUR HONOR, FOR PLAINTIFFS.
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MR. KANG:
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MR. BALAKRISHNAN:
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THE COURT:
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THANK YOU.
MR. VAKILI:
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GOOD MORNING, YOUR HONOR. ANAND
BALAKRISHNAN FOR PLAINTIFFS.
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LEE
GOOD MORNING, YOUR HONOR.
BARDIS
GOOD MORNING, YOUR HONOR.
SARAH
VAKILI FOR PLAINTIFFS.
MS. FABIAN:
FABIAN, WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, FOR DEFENDANTS.
MR. STEWART:
GOOD MORNING, YOUR HONOR.
SCOTT
STEWART FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
THANK YOU.
AND GOOD MORNING.
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THE COURT:
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I HAVE READ ALL OF THE BRIEFING THAT WAS SUBMITTED,
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WHICH I APPRECIATE.
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS PROVIDE A NUMBER OF
24
RULINGS FROM THE BENCH SO THAT THE PARTIES HAVE THE BENEFIT OF
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THE COURT'S DETERMINATIONS AND CAN PROCEED ACCORDINGLY.
JULY 10, 2018
AND
4
1
THEN I WILL ISSUE A SHORT WRITTEN ORDER LATER TODAY SETTING
2
OUT THE DETERMINATIONS THAT I AM GOING TO MAKE IN A MOMENT.
3
ON THE CLASS NOTICE ISSUE, I AM GOING TO ADOPT THE
4
PLAINTIFFS' VERSION, SO THAT NOTICE MAY ISSUE IN ACCORDANCE
5
WITH THE PLAINTIFFS' PROPOSAL.
6
ON THE BALANCE OF THE ISSUES, I INTEND TO STAND ON
7
THE DEADLINE ON MOST OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN
8
IDENTIFIED OF THE UNDER-FIVE GROUP, AND WOULD BE ADOPTING IN
9
SIGNIFICANT PART A STREAMLINED APPROACH.
10
AND THE REASONS FOR THAT IS, WHEN ONE LOOKS TO THE
11
MANNER IN WHICH ICE MAKES THESE CONSIDERATIONS, SO IF WE STEP
12
BACK IN TIME AND WE LOOK AT THE CASES OF MS. L. AND MS. C.
13
SPECIFICALLY, THESE INDIVIDUALS GO INTO ICE DETENTION.
14
ARRIVE AS A FAMILY UNIT, AND ICE MAKES DETERMINATIONS AS TO
15
WHETHER TO KEEP THE FAMILY TOGETHER OR TO SEPARATE THEM.
THEY
16
AND WHEN THIS CASE WAS INITIATED, MR. ORTIZ, MARIO
17
ORTIZ, FILED A DECLARATION WITH THE COURT ON MARCH 15, 2018.
18
AND MR. ORTIZ IS A DETENTION OFFICER FOR THE SAN DIEGO
19
DISTRICT OF ICE, THE ENFORCEMENT AND REMOVAL OPERATIONS
20
DIVISION, SINCE 1996.
21
PROCEDURES THAT ERO SAN DIEGO FAMILY UNIT CURRENTLY FOLLOWS.
22
AND THAT FAMILY UNIT ENDEAVORS TO DO PRECISELY WHAT WE ARE
23
TRYING TO DO IN A CONTEXT THAT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE
24
CONTEXT, AGAIN, IS THE APPREHENSION OF FAMILY UNITS, AND THEN
25
A DETERMINATION AT THAT TIME WITH THE INFORMATION THAT IS
HE SET OUT IN HIS DECLARATION THE
JULY 10, 2018
5
1
2
AVAILABLE AT THAT TIME WHETHER TO SEPARATE OR NOT.
AND WHAT HE SAYS IS THE FOLLOWING, AND I AM GOING TO
3
QUOTE FROM HIS DECLARATION IN PERTINENT PARTS:
WHEN ALIENS
4
WHO ENTER ICE CUSTODY CLAIM TO BE PARENT AND CHILD, THEY ARE
5
REFERRED TO THE FAMILY UNIT.
6
IS TO MAKE APPROPRIATE PLACEMENT DECISIONS FOR ALIENS
7
TRAVELING WITH CHILDREN WHO CLAIM FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS.
8
ALIENS CLAIMING A PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP ARE ENCOUNTERED,
9
MY UNIT'S PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS ARE, FIRST, WHETHER THERE IS
10
ANY DOUBT ABOUT WHETHER THEY ARE PARENT AND CHILD AND, SECOND,
11
WHETHER THERE IS INFORMATION THAT CAUSES A CONCERN ABOUT THE
12
WELFARE OF THE CHILD SUCH AS THE ADULT HAVING A SIGNIFICANT
13
CRIMINAL HISTORY.
14
SPECIFIC CASE, IF THERE ARE NOT CONCERNS ABOUT THE FAMILY
15
RELATIONSHIP OR WELFARE OF THE CHILD, THE ALIENS MAY BE
16
DETAINED IN A FAMILY RESIDENTIAL CENTER OR, IF APPROPRIATE,
17
RELEASED TO A SPONSOR OR NONGOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION.
18
ARE CONCERNS, THE CHILD MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO O.R.R.
THE MISSION OF THE FAMILY UNIT
WHEN
BASED ON THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN A
IF THERE
19
AND I THINK, GIVEN THE EVIDENCE BEFORE THE COURT,
20
THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT THIS PRACTICE THAT ICE HAS USED
21
FOR MANY YEARS HAS NOT WORKED SUCCESSFULLY.
22
MAKING THESE KINDS OF DETERMINATIONS FOR YEARS.
23
BEEN SUBJECT TO THE TVPRA, WHICH IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT
24
STATUTORY CONSTRUCT THAT IS DESIGNED FOR A DIFFERENT
25
SITUATION.
JULY 10, 2018
THEY HAVE BEEN
THEY HAVE NOT
6
THE TVPRA, AS WE HAVE DISCUSSED THROUGHOUT THIS
1
2
LITIGATION, IT WAS PRINCIPALLY PROMULGATED TO DEAL WITH
3
UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN WHO CROSSED ON THEIR OWN, WERE
4
APPREHENDED, AND THEN THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO TAKE CUSTODY AND
5
CARE OF THOSE CHILDREN.
AND IN FULFILLING THAT OBLIGATION IT WAS FUNCTIONING
6
7
MUCH LIKE FOSTER CARE FACILITIES DO OR STATE AND COUNTY
8
GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES THAT ARE LOOKING AFTER THE WELFARE OF A
9
CHILD, IT WAS FUNCTIONING AS A CHILD WELFARE AGENCY.
AND IN
10
MAKING PLACEMENTS OFTENTIMES THERE ARE NOT PARENTS AVAILABLE
11
BECAUSE THESE ARE CHILDREN WHO CAME OVER ON THEIR OWN, SO THEY
12
ARE LOOKING TO PLACE CHILDREN OFTENTIMES WITH NONPARENT
13
CUSTODIANS.
14
FULFILL THOSE OBLIGATIONS CAREFULLY, THROUGH A RELATIVELY
15
TIME-INTENSIVE PROCESS OF INTERVIEWING SPONSORS, LOOKING INTO
16
THE FAMILY SITUATION, RUNNING BACKGROUND CHECKS; ALL OF THOSE
17
THINGS THAT YOU WOULD EXPECT WHEN YOU PLACE A CHILD IN LIKE A
18
FOSTER HOME TYPE ENVIRONMENT.
AND IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THAT THEY WOULD NEED TO
THAT'S NOT THE CONTEXT HERE.
WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE IS THE CONTEXT IN
19
20
WHICH THE SEPARATIONS OCCURRED, AND THAT IS GOING BACK TO THE
21
CLASS DEFINITION THAT THESE ARE CHILDREN WHO ARRIVED WITH A
22
PARENT.
23
AND SO, NECESSARILY, THE DETERMINATION OUGHT TO BE,
24
AND IN PARTICULAR IN LIGHT OF THE CLAIMS IN THIS CASE THAT
25
THESE FAMILIES WERE IMPROPERLY SEPARATED, THE DETERMINATION
JULY 10, 2018
7
1
OUGHT TO BE WHETHER THERE IS ANYTHING ABOUT THE PARENT THAT
2
RENDERS THAT PARENT UNFIT OR A DANGER.
3
ASSUMES THEY ARE THE PARENT.
4
MADE CONSISTENT WITH WHAT ICE HAS BEEN DOING ALL ALONG.
5
THIS, OF COURSE,
AND THOSE CONSIDERATIONS CAN BE
IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO ADOPT WHOLESALE THE TVPRA AND
6
PLUG IT INTO THIS CONTEXT, WHICH IS COMPLETELY DISSIMILAR TO
7
THE UNACCOMPANIED MINOR SITUATION.
8
9
THE GOVERNMENT, BECAUSE OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE
FAMILIES WERE SEPARATED, HAS AN AFFIRMATIVE OBLIGATION TO
10
REUNIFY, TO DO IT EFFICIENTLY AND TO DO IT SAFELY.
11
CHILD'S INTEREST IS PARAMOUNT.
12
WHOLESALE ADOPTION OF THE TVPRA PROCEDURES.
13
THE
BUT IT CAN BE DONE WITHOUT A
AND I AM MAKING THESE ASSUMPTIONS, GIVEN THE BENEFIT
14
OF THE BRIEFING, THAT WHAT IS AT ISSUE ARE A NUMBER OF POLICY
15
CONSIDERATIONS.
16
RULE-MAKING AUTHORITY.
17
WAY WITH A FEDERAL STATUTE OR RULES THAT HAVE BEEN PROMULGATED
18
THROUGH THE APA AND OTHER FORMALIZED PROCEDURES.
19
POLICIES THAT THE HHS HAS ADOPTED, IS THE UNDERSTANDING I HAVE
20
FROM THE BRIEFING, TO FULFILL ITS MISSION UNDER THE TVPRA FOR
21
UNACCOMPANIED MINOR CHILDREN.
IT IS NOT THE STATUTE ITSELF, IT IS NOT
SO THE COURT IS NOT INTERVENING IN ANY
THESE ARE
22
THAT'S THE ESSENTIAL BACKGROUND.
23
HERE THE PARTIES HAVE INDICATED THAT THERE IS ONLY
24
ONE STATUTORY PROVISION WHICH WOULD APPLY, AND THAT IS WHERE
25
THE TVPRA REQUIRES HOME STUDIES WHERE THERE ARE INDICATIONS OF
JULY 10, 2018
8
1
TRAFFICKING OR ABUSE UNDER 8, USC, SECTION 1232(C)(3)(B), AND
2
THAT WOULD BE LEFT UNINTERRUPTED BY TODAY'S PROCEEDINGS AND
3
THE INJUNCTION THAT IS IN PLACE.
4
CONSIDERATIONS, IF THERE IS EVIDENCE OF TRAFFICKING OR ABUSE,
5
THOSE PARENTS ARE NOT GOING TO BE IN THIS CLASS, IN ANY EVENT.
6
SO I THINK WHAT'S IN PLACE WITH THE CLASS DEFINITION
AND IN ADDITION THOSE
7
AND THE PROPOSALS THAT THE PLAINTIFFS HAVE SET OUT, BY AND
8
LARGE, AND THAT ICE HAS USED FOR MANY YEARS, IS COMPLETELY
9
CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS OF THE TVPRA; BUT IS MUCH MORE
10
SUITABLE FOR THE SPECIFIC CONTEXT OF THIS CASE, AND THAT IS
11
FAMILY SEPARATION AT THE BORDER, FAMILY UNITS ARRIVING
12
TOGETHER.
13
WITH THAT BACKGROUND, LET ME RUN THROUGH THE AREAS
14
OF DISPUTE.
AND WITH AN INDICATION THAT THERE IS STILL MUCH
15
TIME LEFT TODAY, THAT THESE REUNIFICATIONS OCCUR.
16
ARE FIRM DEADLINES, THEY ARE NOT ASPIRATIONAL GOALS.
17
WE GO THROUGH I CAN BE MORE SPECIFIC AS TO WHO IS IN THE CLASS
18
AND WHO IS NOT, AND WHICH PARENTS AND CHILDREN WE WOULD BE
19
FOCUSING ON FOR PURPOSES OF REUNIFICATION TODAY.
THAT THESE
AND AS
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THE FIRST AREA OF DISPUTE RELATES TO DNA.
21
GOVERNMENT IS INDICATING THAT IT WOULD LIKE TO TAKE DNA CHEEK
22
SWABS FROM EVERYONE.
23
THE
AND HERE THAT RELATES -- ACCORDING TO THE PRESENT
24
NUMBERS, 34 FAMILIES ARE READY TO BE REUNITED TODAY.
25
OTHERS ARE LIKELY TO BE REUNITED.
17
16 ARE PENDING CONFIRMATION
JULY 10, 2018
9
1
OF PARENTAGE, AND SO THAT MAY BE THE GROUP THAT THIS DNA
2
TESTING RELATES TO.
BUT AS TO THAT AREA OF DISPUTE, I WOULD PERMIT DNA
3
4
TESTING, WHEN NECESSARY, WHEN THERE IS A LEGITIMATE, GOOD
5
FAITH CONCERN ABOUT PARENTAGE, OR IF THERE IS A LEGITIMATE
6
CONCERN THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT MEET THE REUNIFICATION
7
DEADLINE, AND THAT MAY BE THE SITUATION WE ARE HERE IN TODAY.
8
THEN THE GOVERNMENT, WITH THE CONSENT OF THE PARENT, CAN TAKE
9
A DNA SAMPLE, SUBJECT TO THE PROTECTIVE ORDER THAT IS PROPOSED
10
BY THE PARTIES.
I THINK THE PROTECTIVE ORDER COMPLETELY PROVIDES THE
11
12
NECESSARY PROTECTION WITH RESPECT TO HOW DNA SAMPLING MAY BE
13
USED.
14
SAMPLING IS DESTROYED WITHIN SEVEN DAYS AND IT IS NOT USED FOR
15
ANY OTHER PURPOSE.
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THERE HAS TO BE CONSENT BY THE PARENT, AND THEN THE
SO WITH THAT, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IF THE GOVERNMENT
17
IS USING THE DNA TESTING ONLY WHEN NECESSARY AND/OR WHEN
18
NECESSARY TO MEET COURT-IMPOSED DEADLINES, THAT IT MAY BE
19
DONE, SUBJECT TO THE PROTECTIVE ORDER.
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MS. FABIAN:
CAN I ASK A POINT OF CLARIFICATION?
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THE COURT:
LET ME RUN THROUGH THESE, AND THEN WE
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24
25
CAN GO BACK AND CLARIFY AS NECESSARY.
THE SECOND AREA RELATES TO RESTRICTIONS ON HHS
INFORMATION-GATHERING ABOUT CHILD WELFARE.
HERE, I WOULD ADOPT A STREAMLINE APPROACH, NOT THE
JULY 10, 2018
10
1
TVPRA STANDARD.
2
THE TVPRA, FROM ITS INCEPTION, IS ALL ABOUT A CUSTODIAN
3
APPLYING AND SEEKING APPROVAL TO BE A SPONSOR OR A RECOGNIZED
4
CUSTODIAN; THIS IS NOT THAT SITUATION.
5
THAT, IN THIS CONTEXT, IS BACKWARDS, BECAUSE
THE GOVERNMENT HAS AN OBLIGATION TO REUNIFY CHILD
6
WITH PARENT.
7
IN THIS CONTEXT.
8
IT IS THE GOVERNMENT'S OBLIGATION TO MAKE IT SO, UNLESS THERE
9
ARE ISSUES OF FITNESS OR DANGER.
10
THE IDEA OF AN APPLICATION PROCESS DOESN'T FIT
THE PARENT HAS A RIGHT TO BE REUNIFIED AND
SO ON ADDITIONAL INFORMATION-GATHERING, THAT WOULD
11
NOT BE NECESSARY IN THE UNIQUE CONTEXT OF THIS CASE.
12
NOT THE ORDINARY TVPRA TYPE OF CASE.
13
THIS IS
IN ADDITION, IF THE GOVERNMENT IS AWARE OF
14
INFORMATION BEFORE THE COURT-IMPOSED DEADLINE THAT RAISES
15
ISSUES OF FITNESS OR DANGER -- AND THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES
16
THAT HAVE BEEN SET OUT IN THE PARTIES' FILINGS TODAY OF
17
PARENTS THAT PRESENT ISSUES OF FITNESS OR DANGER --
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REUNIFICATION DOES NOT HAVE TO OCCUR TODAY.
19
CAN WITHHOLD REUNIFICATION, AGAIN ASSUMING ABSOLUTE GOOD FAITH
20
AND ARTICULABLE REASONS FOR IT.
21
THEN -- WILL THEN BE IMMEDIATELY PROVIDED TO PLAINTIFFS'
22
COUNSEL SO THAT THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTEST THE
23
GOVERNMENT'S DETERMINATION.
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25
THE GOVERNMENT
AND THAT INFORMATION IS
AND I WILL COME TO THE PROCESS BY WHICH WE WILL
RESOLVE ANY OF THESE DISPUTES, BUT I AM OPTIMISTIC THAT MOST
JULY 10, 2018
11
1
ALL WILL RESOLVE THROUGH THE MEET-AND-CONFER PROCESS.
THE THIRD AREA RELATES TO BACKGROUND CHECKS ON OTHER
2
3
ADULTS IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
THIS GOES TO THIS IDEA OF IF WE ARE
4
GOING TO PLACE AN UNACCOMPANIED MINOR WHO SHOWED UP ON HIS OWN
5
AND WAS APPREHENDED, WE ARE NOT GOING TO PUT HIM OR HER IN A
6
HOME UNLESS WE KNOW ABOUT EVERYONE IN THE HOME.
THAT IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT NEEDING
7
8
TO RETURN A CHILD TO HIS OR HER PARENT, ASSUMING THE PARENT IS
9
FIT AND NOT A DANGER.
THESE PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR
10
OWN CHILDREN, AND MANY OF THESE DETERMINATIONS, WE MUST
11
ASSUME, ARE SUBJECT TO THE PARENTS' JUDGMENT AND
12
CONSIDERATION.
13
SO I WOULD ADOPT A STREAMLINE APPROACH HERE.
14
AND THERE MAY BE INDIVIDUALS -- THE GOVERNMENT HAS
15
IDENTIFIED SEVERAL PUTATIVE CLASS MEMBERS WHO HAVE CRIMINAL
16
HISTORY:
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ENDANGERMENT, ANOTHER IS NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING, ANOTHER HAS A
18
PENDING OR AN ALLEGED HOMICIDE.
19
OUTSIDE OF THE CLASS.
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NECESSARILY ADDRESS MANY OF THE GOVERNMENT'S LEGITIMATE
21
CONCERNS ABOUT PROTECTING THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN.
22
ONE IS ALIEN SMUGGLING, ANOTHER IS CHILD
THESE INDIVIDUALS FALL
SO THE CLASS DEFINITION WILL
AND IF THE GOVERNMENT HAS SPECIFIC INFORMATION THERE
23
IS -- FOR EXAMPLE, THERE IS AN IDENTIFICATION OF A PARENT, A
24
SITUATION WHERE AN INDIVIDUAL IN ONE OF THE HOUSEHOLDS HAS AN
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OUTSTANDING WARRANT FOR AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL SEXUAL ABUSE.
JULY 10, 2018
THE
12
1
GOVERNMENT HAS A LOT OF INFORMATION, A LOT OF RESOURCES
2
AVAILABLE.
3
IS NOT A NEED TO REUNIFY.
4
GOVERNMENT PROPERLY WITHHOLDING REUNIFICATION, ADDRESSING IT
5
WITH PLAINTIFFS' COUNSEL.
6
CANNOT BE RESOLVED BETWEEN THE PARTIES, BRINGING IT TO THE
7
ATTENTION OF THE COURT FOR RESOLUTION.
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9
10
11
WHEN THAT KIND OF INFORMATION COMES FORWARD THERE
THAT WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE OF THE
AND THEN, IF NECESSARY, IF IT
BUT THE TVPRA PROCESS OF THE FULL BACKGROUND CHECK
OF EVERYONE IN THE HOUSEHOLD IS NOT NECESSARY UNDER THESE
UNIQUE CIRCUMSTANCES.
NUMBER FOUR IS PROOF OF ADDRESS, SPONSOR CARE PLANS,
12
AND ALTERNATE CAREGIVERS.
13
THESE AREAS ARE NOT OBJECTED TO IN PART.
14
OBJECTION TO PROVIDING PROOF OF ADDRESS BUT THERE IS OBJECTION
15
TO A SPONSOR CARE PLAN.
16
OBJECTION.
17
THERE IS NO OBJECTION.
MANY OF
HERE THERE IS NO
AND I WOULD AGREE OR SUSTAIN THAT
HERE AGAIN, THE PARENTS ARE NOT APPLYING FOR -- THEY
18
DON'T HAVE TO PROVE THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE A GOOD SPONSOR.
19
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO LOOK TO IS WHETHER THE PARENT IS
20
UNFIT OR A DANGER, SO IT IS GOING ABOUT IT A DIFFERENT WAY.
21
THE TVPRA, WITH RESPECT TO THESE INDIVIDUAL CLASS
22
MEMBERS, IS BACKWARDS.
AND FOR THOSE REASONS I WOULD AGREE
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WITH PLAINTIFFS ON A STREAMLINED APPROACH.
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AND HERE AGAIN, IF THERE IS ANY INFORMATION THAT THE
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GOVERNMENT HAS THAT GIVES CONCERNS, IT CAN BE PROPERLY BROUGHT
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TO THE ATTENTION OF PLAINTIFFS' COUNSEL AND THE COURT AT A
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LATER TIME.
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THE FIFTH AREA RELATES TO LEGAL ORIENTATION AND
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SPONSOR CARE AGREEMENT.
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LEGAL ORIENTATION PROGRAMS AND/OR SIGNING A SPONSOR CARE
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AGREEMENT SO LONG AS IT DOES NOT DELAY REUNIFICATION.
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AGREE WITH THAT.
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10
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THERE IS NO OBJECTION TO ATTENDING
AND I
SO REUNIFICATION WOULD BE PRIMARY, AND THEN SIGNING
ON TO LEGAL ORIENTATION AND SPONSOR CARE AGREEMENTS CAN BE
DONE AT A LATER TIME, AFTER REUNIFICATION.
THE FINAL AREA IS WHERE A CHILD MAY PRESENT A DANGER
TO HIM OR HERSELF OR TO OTHERS.
THIS IS NOT A CONCERN FOR CHILDREN UNDER AGE FIVE,
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IT IS A CONCERN FOR CHILDREN OVER AGE FIVE.
AND PROBABLY THE
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TARGET GROUP HERE WOULD BE CHILDREN OVER AGE 12.
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INVITE THE PARTIES TO MEET AND CONFER ON THAT.
BUT I WOULD
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HERE AGAIN, IF THE GOVERNMENT HAS ARTICULABLE
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REASONS OF A CHILD -- AND WHAT COMES TO MIND WOULD BE A
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TEENAGER WHO PRESENTS A DANGER TO HIMSELF OR OTHERS.
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GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO BE FREE TO MAKE THOSE DETERMINATIONS,
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PROPERLY SO, AND TO KEEP THAT CHILD IN SECURE CUSTODY, NOT BE
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REUNIFIED.
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THE
BUT HERE AGAIN WHAT I WOULD EXPECT IS THE PARTIES
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MEET AND CONFER.
THERE WOULD LIKELY BE AGREEMENT.
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THE PARTIES CAN BRING THE MATTER TO THE COURT'S ATTENTION.
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AND AS FAR AS THE PROCESS, I WOULD LIKE THE PROCESS TO
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CONTINUE, OF COURSE, AS EXPEDITIOUSLY AS IT HAS BEEN.
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COURSE WITH A PARAMOUNT FOCUS BEING ON THE CHILDREN'S WELFARE.
4
BUT THAT CAN BE DONE IN THE MANNER WHICH THE COURT HAS
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ADDRESSED THESE ISSUES.
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT COUNSEL BE AVAILABLE FROM HERE
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THROUGH THE REUNIFICATION PROCESS.
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AVAILABLE.
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REPORTS AND STATUS CONFERENCES.
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AND OF
THE COURT WILL BE
I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO HAVE REGULAR STATUS
AND I WOULD LIKE TO DO THAT
IN OPEN COURT.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE YOU, MS. FABIAN, OR YOU, MR.
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GELERNT, IT COULD BE SOME OF THESE ABLE BODIES NEXT TO YOU.
13
BUT I WOULD LIKE A PERSON IN COURT WHO CAN STAND UP AND MAKE
14
REPRESENTATIONS, AND OTHERS CAN PARTICIPATE TELEPHONICALLY.
15
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO DO THAT ON A REGULAR BASIS.
THERE IS A LOT OF WORK TO DO WITH RESPECT TO THE
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17
OVER-FIVE GROUP.
AND I AM ANTICIPATING THAT A LOT OF THAT
18
WORK IS WELL UNDERWAY, AND IT WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE LINES
19
THAT WE HAVE SET OUT HERE WITH THE UNDER-FIVE GROUP.
WHAT I AM CONTEMPLATING IS THAT AS WE GO THROUGH
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THIS PROCESS -- AND IT WOULD START WITH BOTH THE UNDER-FIVE
22
AND THEN THE OVER-FIVE GROUP -- IS WHERE THE PARTIES MEET AND
23
CONFER.
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TO FIVE PAGES.
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LETTER BRIEF.
IF THERE IS SOME DISPUTE, YOU CAN SUBMIT BRIEFING UP
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE FANCY, IT CAN BE A
IT CAN JUST GET RIGHT TO THE ISSUES SETTING OUT
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THE PARTIES' BASIC POSITIONS.
I WOULD REQUEST A JOINT FILING
2
ON ANY DISPUTE, SO UP TO TEN PAGES TOTAL, FIVE AND FIVE.
AND THE COURT WOULD EITHER CONVENE A STATUS
3
4
CONFERENCE TELEPHONICALLY OR I WOULD SIMPLY RULE ON THE BRIEF
5
THAT IS SUBMITTED, AND WE CAN GO CASE BY CASE.
BUT I AM VERY OPTIMISTIC THAT THAT WILL BE SELDOMLY
6
7
USED.
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THE SAME DIRECTION HERE, AND IT IS JUST A MATTER OF, I THINK,
9
STREAMLINING THE PROCESS AND PROVIDING CLEAR DIRECTION AS TO
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THAT WOULD BE MY EXPECTATION.
EVERYONE IS ROWING IN
HOW THE GOVERNMENT WILL PROCEED.
I HAVE JUST A FEW FINAL COMMENTS, AND THEN WE CAN
ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS OR NEED FOR CLARIFICATION.
THERE ARE, DEPENDING ON HOW ONE COUNTS, EITHER 101
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OR 102 IN THIS UNDER-FIVE GROUP.
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TODAY'S SUBMISSION, 75 OF THIS GROUP ARE ELIGIBLE FOR
16
REUNIFICATION.
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BY MY COUNT, BASED ON
63 ARE ELIGIBLE FOR REUNIFICATION TODAY.
14 PARENTS ARE NOT IN THE CLASS.
EIGHT HAVE
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CRIMINAL HISTORY THAT PRECLUDES THEM, FIVE ARE NOT THE
19
PARENTS, AND ONE THE GOVERNMENT CLAIMS IT HAS CREDIBLE
20
EVIDENCE OF CHILD ABUSE AND IS THEREFORE A DANGER OR UNFIT AND
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WOULD FALL OUTSIDE OF THE CLASS.
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THAT'S 14.
THERE ARE 12 OTHERS THAT FALL -- WELL, THERE ARE TWO
23
OTHERS THAT PRESENTLY FALL OUT OF THE CLASS.
ONE IS
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CHARACTERIZED AS PRESENTING A DANGER, ONE AS HAVING A
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASE.
THE ONE WITH THE COMMUNICABLE DISEASE,
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THE PARTIES RECOGNIZE WHEN THAT MATTER IS ADDRESSED, HOPEFULLY
2
SUCCESSFULLY FROM A MEDICAL STANDPOINT, THEN REUNIFICATION CAN
3
OCCUR AT AN APPROPRIATE TIME.
TEN MEMBERS OF THE CLASS ARE IN CRIMINAL CUSTODY,
4
5
STATE OR FEDERAL.
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THIS POINT IN TIME, BUT THEY WOULD BE ONCE THEY ARE RELEASED
7
TO ICE DETENTION.
SO THEY WOULD HAVE TO WAIT.
THERE ARE 12 THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED.
8
9
THEY ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR REUNIFICATION AT
THEY ARE PART
OF THE CLASS, THEY WOULD BE SUBJECT TO REUNIFICATION, BUT AT A
10
LATER TIME.
THAT REQUIRES A SEPARATE DISCUSSION, AND THERE
11
ARE MORE COMPLICATING ISSUES THAT HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED WITH
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THOSE 12.
13
TO BE REUNITED, ABSENT THEIR CONSENT OTHERWISE.
BUT THEY ARE PART OF THE CLASS AND THEY DO DESERVE
14
SO THAT LEAVES 63.
15
THE GOVERNMENT HAS INDICATED -- AND TO RESTATE THIS.
16
OF THE GROUP OF 101 OR 102, 75 ARE SUBJECT TO BEING REUNITED.
17
12 OF THOSE ARE REMOVED AND WILL TAKE SOME TIME.
18
THERE ARE 63 THAT I WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS ON TODAY.
19
THE GOVERNMENT HAS INDICATED THAT 34 ARE READY, AND
20
THEY WILL BE REUNITED TODAY.
THERE ARE 17 OTHERS THAT ARE IN ICE DETENTION.
21
16
22
NEED CONFIRMATION OF PARENTAGE, AND ONE HAS CRIMINAL HISTORY
23
PENDING.
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AND IT SEEMS TO ME WITH THE PROCEDURES SET OUT TODAY
THAT THOSE 17 CAN BE ADDRESSED AND REUNITED TODAY, OR WITHIN
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2
3
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THE IMMEDIATE PROXIMITY OF TODAY.
THERE ARE EIGHT THAT HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM ICE,
AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THEY CAN BE REUNITED TODAY, AS WELL.
AND SO IN THAT REGARD WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS
5
MEET AGAIN THIS FRIDAY AT 1:00 O'CLOCK, WITH THE PARTIES TO
6
SUBMIT A STATUS REPORT THURSDAY BY 3:00 P.M., PACIFIC TIME,
7
GIVING AN UPDATE ON COMPLIANCE WITH THE UNDER-FIVE GROUP AND
8
GIVING A STATUS ON THE OVER-FIVE GROUP, WHICH IS -- THAT'S
9
GOING TO BE A SIGNIFICANT UNDERTAKING.
AND WE NEED TO HAVE
10
CONCRETE INFORMATION BY THURSDAY SO THAT MR. GELERNT AND
11
OTHERS CAN MAKE INTELLIGENT AND INFORMED DECISIONS AS TO
12
WHETHER THERE IS COMPLIANCE AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO MAKE
13
REUNIFICATION HAPPEN.
14
WE NEED ANOTHER LIST OF THE OVER-FIVE GROUP.
15
GOING TO BE A SIGNIFICANT UNDERTAKING.
16
INDIVIDUAL LIST, IT MAY BE BY CATEGORY.
17
THAT'S
HAVE THE PARTIES MEET AND CONFER IN THAT REGARD.
18
IT MAY BE AN
I WILL JUST SIMPLY
IF THERE IS A FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE UNDER-FIVE
19
GROUP THEN, MR. GELERNT, WHAT I ASK THAT YOU DO IS PUT THAT IN
20
THE THURSDAY SUBMISSION AND WE CAN ADDRESS IT ON FRIDAY.
21
IF YOU BELIEVE THERE IS A FAILURE TO COMPLY -- AND HERE I AM
22
REALLY FOCUSING ON THE 63.
23
MR. GELERNT:
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THE COURT:
25
AND
RIGHT.
IF THERE IS A FAILURE TO COMPLY I WOULD
LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IT IS AND WHAT YOU ARE SEEKING BY WAY OF
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REMEDY.
AND WITH THAT, MR. GELERNT, DO YOU HAVE ANY
QUESTIONS?
I THINK THE GOVERNMENT MAY HAVE MORE
4
MR. GELERNT:
5
QUESTIONS, YOUR HONOR.
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HAD A COUPLE OF JUST CLARIFYING QUESTIONS.
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10
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THAT ALL SEEMS FINE TO US.
I THINK I
WHEN YOU WERE SAYING 101 OR 102 WAS THAT BECAUSE OF
THE ONE CHILD WHO THEY HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED?
THE COURT:
YES.
THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THAT.
DO WE HAVE ANY -- THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE IS WHAT
THE GOVERNMENT PUT IN ITS LAST BRIEFING?
MR. GELERNT:
RIGHT.
AND WE ARE TRYING TO MOBILIZE
EVERYONE WE CAN JUST TO FIGURE IT OUT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE GOVERNMENT HAS MORE INFORMATION
15
ABOUT THAT ONE CHILD THAT THEY GOT THIS MORNING THAT WE ARE
16
NOT AWARE OF.
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THE COURT:
THERE WAS INFORMATION THAT THAT CHILD
MAY BE A U.S. CITIZEN.
MS. FABIAN:
IS THERE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION?
MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE PARENT MAY BE A
20
U.S. CITIZEN AND THERE WAS A CRIMINAL HISTORY WITH THE PARENT.
21
BUT THAT -- BASED ON THAT IT MAY BE THAT THE CHILD IS ALSO A
22
U.S. CITIZEN.
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INTO THAT.
SO THAT IS -- I THINK THE CLIENTS ARE LOOKING
24
SO IT MAY BE THAT THE PARENT IS NOT A CLASS MEMBER,
25
BUT IN ANY EVENT THEY ARE LOOKING INTO THE SITUATION WITH THE
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CHILD TO RESOLVE IT, EVEN OUTSIDE OF THIS LITIGATION.
IS THERE A LINK-UP; SO, IN OTHER WORDS,
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THE COURT:
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DO YOU KNOW WHO THE PARENT IS?
4
MS. FABIAN:
YEAH.
I BELIEVE SO.
THAT THEY HAVE
5
NOW IDENTIFIED THE PERSON THEY BELIEVE IS THE PARENT, AND THAT
6
IS SORT OF -- THAT'S WHY WE WERE ABLE TO GIVE THE ADDITIONAL
7
INFORMATION IN TODAY'S FILING.
8
THE COURT:
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WE WILL ADDRESS IT ON FRIDAY.
SO ON THAT CHILD I WILL SIMPLY WAIT AND
THAT'S FINE, YOUR HONOR.
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MR. GELERNT:
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WE WOULD JUST ASK THAT YOU GIVE US AND LATEST
12
INFORMATION ON THAT, WHENEVER YOU HAVE IT.
13
A U.S. CITIZEN THEY SHOULD BE -- RIGHT.
14
MS. FABIAN:
SURE.
OBVIOUSLY IF IT IS
WE ARE LOOKING INTO THAT
15
SITUATION.
IT MAY NOT THEN BE INVOLVED IN THIS LITIGATION,
16
BUT BECAUSE WE ARE AWARE OF IT, OF COURSE WE WILL TRY TO
17
RESOLVE IT IN THE CORRECT WAY.
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THE COURT:
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MS. FABIAN:
YES.
AND IF THE CHILD IS A U.S. CITIZEN THEY
20
ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO STAY IN O.R.R. CUSTODY SO THEY -- WE WOULD
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DO THE PROPER PROCEDURE FOR A RELEASE.
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THE COURT:
MS. FABIAN, ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT WE
HAVE COVERED?
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MS. FABIAN:
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THE COURT:
I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
YES.
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AND THEN MR. STEWART DOES -- WE HAVE
MS. FABIAN:
2
ONE ISSUE THAT WE WANTED TO RAISE TO THE COURT TODAY THAT HAS
3
COME UP IN LIGHT OF JUDGE GEE'S RULING IN THE FLORES CASE, SO
4
MR. STEWART WILL SPEAK TO THAT.
5
THE COURT:
6
MS. FABIAN:
YES.
BUT I WANTED TO RAISE A COUPLE OF
7
ISSUES JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT I AM UNDERSTANDING THE COURT'S
8
RULING.
9
THE DNA, YOUR HONOR HAD NOTED THAT IT SHOULD BE
10
CONDUCTED WHEN NECESSARY.
BASED ON THE DEADLINE OF TODAY, YOU
11
HAD ALSO EXPRESSED THAT IT COULD BE -- IT WOULD BE PERMISSIBLE
12
WHEN NECESSARY TO MEET THE DEADLINE.
13
FOR THE 16 WHO ARE STILL PENDING DNA THEY HAVE -- IT
14
IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY HAVE IN FACT BEEN TESTED BUT THE
15
TEST RESULTS HAVE NOT BEEN RECEIVED.
16
SO THE QUESTION -- I WANT TO CLARIFY THAT I
17
EXPECT -- SOME OF THOSE HAVE COME IN OVER THE COURSE OF THE
18
MORNING AND FOLKS HAVE MOVED INTO THE RELEASE-TODAY GROUP.
19
EXPECTATION WOULD BE THAT WE WOULD CONTINUE TO DO THAT AS
20
THOSE RESULTS COME IN.
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THEY WOULD MOVE INTO THAT GROUP.
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MIGHT BE TOMORROW.
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CONSISTENT WITH YOUR HONOR'S RULING TODAY.
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MY
ASSUMING THAT THEY ARE POSITIVE, THAT
THAT MIGHT BE TODAY, IT
I WANTED TO CONFIRM THAT THAT IS
THE COURT:
I AM ASSUMING THOSE ARE RELATIVELY
STRAIGHTFORWARD, SIMPLE TESTS, THAT THEY CAN BE PROVIDED OVER
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TO THE GOVERNMENT AND DETERMINATIONS CAN BE MADE TODAY.
IF
2
THEY ARE PARENTS AND ALL OF THE OTHER CRITERIA ARE MET, THEN I
3
WOULD EXPECT REUNIFICATION TODAY.
IF THERE IS A FAILURE, THEN IT WOULD NEED TO BE
4
5
ADDRESSED IN THE THURSDAY STATUS REPORT.
6
I AM LOOKING FOR IS GOOD FAITH, LEGITIMATE, ARTICULABLE
7
REASONS FOR ANY FAILURE TO COMPLY.
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BE SEEKING.
9
MS. FABIAN:
AND, OF COURSE, WHAT
AND SO THAT'S WHAT I WOULD
AND IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THERE IS
10
JUST SORT OF A TIME PERIOD BETWEEN WHEN THE SWABS ARE TAKEN
11
AND THEY ARE SENT TO THE COMPANY DOING THE TESTS.
12
THE COURT:
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MS. FABIAN:
14
YES.
AND RECEIVING THE RESULTS.
SO WE HAVE
NOT RECEIVED RESULTS FOR THOSE 16.
15
THE COURT:
THEY NEED TO RESPOND.
SO THIS IS NOT AN
16
INVITATION FOR THEM TO TAKE TIME DOING THE SWAB, THEY CAN DO
17
IT, THEY CAN DO IT QUICKLY.
SO THEY NEED TO BE -- AND I AM SURE THEY ARE AWARE
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OF THE DEADLINE.
20
PROVIDED TODAY; AND, IF NOT, THEN OF COURSE I WILL KEEP AN
21
OPEN MIND AS TO WHAT THE EXPLANATION IS.
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25
SO I WOULD EXPECT THAT THESE TESTS WILL BE
MS. FABIAN:
OKAY.
I WILL FIND OUT WHAT THE DELAY
IS.
I GUESS THE CORE QUESTION IS, IF THEY ARE NOT
RECEIVED TODAY IS YOUR HONOR ORDERING THAT THOSE CHILDREN BE
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1
RELEASED, REGARDLESS OF RECEIVING THOSE RESULTS TODAY, OR
2
WOULD YOU PREFER WAIT PENDING RESULTS BUT GIVE YOU AN
3
EXPLANATION FOR THAT DELAY?
4
THE COURT:
YES.
BECAUSE THE IMPORTANT THING IS NOT
5
TO LOSE SIGHT OF THE CRITERIA, AND I THINK THE CRITERIA ARE
6
VERY CLEAR, THEY ARE OBJECTIVE, AND THEY HAVE BEEN IN PLACE
7
SINCE THE INJUNCTION WAS ISSUED, ABOUT PARENTAGE, FITNESS,
8
DANGER.
THOSE CATEGORIES I THINK ARE CLEAR.
UNDERSTOOD, YOUR HONOR.
9
MS. FABIAN:
10
MR. GELERNT:
11
THE COURT:
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MR. GELERNT:
YOUR HONOR, COULD I JUST ADDRESS THAT?
YES.
THE ONE THING WE WOULD ASK IS IT
13
SOUNDS -- I AM NOT SURE BUT COUNSEL FOR GOVERNMENT MAY BE
14
SUGGESTING THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GET ALL OF THE DNA TESTS
15
TODAY AND I DON'T -- OR AT LEAST IS NOT ABLE TO PROMISE THAT
16
HERE NOW.
THE ONE THING I WOULD SAY IS, YOUR HONOR HAS MADE
17
18
CLEAR THAT DNA TESTING DOESN'T NEED TO BE DONE IN EVERY CASE,
19
IT SHOULD BE DONE WHEN NECESSARY.
20
PARENTS HAD SUBMITTED BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER
21
DOCUMENTATION, THEN I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THOSE KIDS CAN BE
22
RELEASED.
23
THE COURT HAS SAID THOSE AREN'T NECESSARY IN EVERY CASE.
24
YOU HAVE DOCUMENTATION THAT THE PARENT IS THE PARENT AND THERE
25
IS ALSO -- THE CASE MANAGER WITH THE KID WILL LIKELY HAVE SOME
SO IF THOSE 16 KIDS, THOSE
BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING THE DNA TEST, NOW
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SENSE OF IT, AS WELL.
2
WE WOULD ASK THAT IT NOT BE DELAYED IF THE 16 DNA
3
VERIFICATIONS DON'T COME IN TODAY IF YOU HAVE OTHER WAYS OF
4
VERIFYING THE PARENTAGE.
5
THE COURT:
6
I AGREE.
MS. FABIAN:
I AGREE WITH THAT AS WELL, YOUR HONOR.
7
AND I SHOULD HAVE SAID THAT.
8
PROCESS THAT IS ONGOING TODAY.
9
I BELIEVE THAT THAT IS ANOTHER
SO WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS, IF THERE IS NOT OTHER
10
DOCUMENTATION AND NO RECEIPT OF DNA, THAT WE SHOULD WAIT UNTIL
11
COMPLETION OF THAT PROCESS EVEN IF THAT BRINGS US TO TOMORROW,
12
BUT PROVIDE A DETAILED EXPLANATION TO THE COURT AND TO
13
PLAINTIFFS AS TO WHY THAT WAS.
14
15
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MR. GELERNT:
I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY I DON'T --
THIS MAY BE JUST MORE OF A QUESTION FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
IS THE GOVERNMENT USING ONE DNA SERVICE?
BECAUSE I
17
KNOW THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF DNA SERVICES WHO ARE REACHING OUT
18
AND SAYING THEY WILL DO THIS, THEY WILL DO IT PRO BONO.
19
IF THINGS ARE GETTING BOTTLED-NECKED BECAUSE THERE
20
IS ONLY ONE DNA SERVICE THE GOVERNMENT IS USING, THAT WOULD
21
ALSO BE SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO RAISE.
22
IT MAY BE NOT AN ISSUE GOING FORWARD BECAUSE THE
23
COURT HAS SAID ONLY USE DNA WHEN NECESSARY IF THERE IS NO
24
OTHER VERIFICATION PROCESS THAT CAN BE -- THAT CAN BE USED.
25
BUT EVEN IF FOR NOW, I JUST DON'T KNOW WHETHER THERE IS A
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BOTTLE-NECK OF ONE.
2
THAT IS MORE A QUESTION OF GOVERNMENT COUNSEL.
3
THE COURT:
4
ON THAT ISSUE, I WILL LET YOU MEET AND
CONFER.
5
MR. GELERNT:
6
THE COURT:
7
WANT TO GO THAT DEEP.
8
OKAY.
WE ARE DEEP IN THE WEEDS, BUT I DON'T
OUT WITH COUNSEL.
9
10
11
MS. FABIAN:
SO YOU CAN WORK A LOT OF THOSE ISSUES
I AGREE, YOUR HONOR.
THE ONE OTHER CLARIFICATION POINT I WANTED TO MAKE,
AND I THINK I KNOW THE ANSWER BUT I WANT TO BE SURE.
12
THERE WAS -- YOUR HONOR HAD SAID THAT THE PROCESS OF
13
REVIEW OF HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS IS A PROCESS THAT YOUR HONOR FEELS
14
IS NOT NECESSARY UNDER THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ORDER.
15
ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT WE HAD IDENTIFIED,
16
BECAUSE THEY WERE ALREADY IN THE REUNIFICATION PROCESS, THE
17
HOUSEHOLD MEMBER WAS DETERMINED TO HAVE A BACKGROUND OF
18
SERIOUS SEXUAL ABUSE.
19
PERSON IS NOW ON THE LIST AS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR REUNIFICATION
20
BECAUSE THAT WAS AN IDENTIFIED DANGER.
AND I THINK YOU WILL SEE THAT THAT
21
DOES YOUR HONOR -- SHOULD WE MOVE THAT PERSON INTO
22
THE CATEGORY FOR RELEASE BECAUSE THAT WAS IDENTIFIED THROUGH
23
THE PROCEDURE THAT IS BEING REMOVED, OR IS IT ACCEPTABLE TO
24
LEAVE THEM IN THIS CATEGORY SINCE WE HAVE AT THIS TIME
25
IDENTIFIED THAT AS A POTENTIAL DANGER?
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THE COURT:
I THINK BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED
2
AS A POTENTIAL DANGER THAT THAT PERSON WOULD -- THE
3
REUNIFICATION WOULD NOT GO FORWARD ABSENT A DIFFERENT
4
PLACEMENT.
5
BUT THAT WOULD BE AN ISSUE -- THAT IS THE KIND OF
6
ISSUE THAT I WOULD LIKE THE PARTIES TO MEET AND CONFER, AND
7
THEN IF THERE IS DISAGREEMENT TO RAISE IT WITH THE COURT.
BUT FOR PURPOSES OF THE DEADLINE TODAY, THAT PERSON
8
9
WOULD NOT FALL WITHIN THE REUNIFICATION GROUP BECAUSE THE
10
GOVERNMENT HAS MADE A PROFFER THAT THERE IS A DANGER TO THE
11
CHILD, AND SO IT WOULD NOT FALL WITHIN THE REUNIFICATION
12
CATEGORY.
13
MR. GELERNT:
YOUR HONOR, I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING
14
WHERE WE CAN MEET AND CONFER BECAUSE IF THE INFORMATION IS
15
WRONG ABOUT THE HOUSEHOLD MEMBER WE WOULD WANT TO TELL YOU.
16
IF THE INFORMATION IS CORRECT, WE WOULD WANT TO TAKE STEPS TO
17
GET THAT MOTHER AND CHILD OUT.
18
THE COURT:
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MR. GELERNT:
RIGHT.
SO THAT IS SOMETHING I HOPE THAT WE
20
CAN CONFER ABOUT TODAY AND TRY AND CLEAR THAT UP.
21
TURNS OUT THE INFORMATION IS CORRECT WE WILL TAKE STEPS TO GET
22
THAT MOTHER AND CHILD OUT.
23
THE COURT:
AND IF IT
BETWEEN THE TWO, THERE IS ENORMOUS
24
RESOURCES, WITH THE GOVERNMENT, AND MR. GELERNT HAS MARSHALED
25
AN ARMY OF NGO'S, FAITH-BASED GROUPS, CITIZENS ALL OVER THE
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COUNTRY WHO WANT TO HELP OUT.
AND SO MUCH OF THIS CAN BE
2
WORKED OUT THROUGH A MEET-AND-CONFER PROCESS.
THE GOAL, OF COURSE, IS TIMELY AND SAFE
3
4
REUNIFICATION.
AND BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES IT SEEMS TO ME
5
THAT THAT CAN HAPPEN, ON TIME AND IN THE SPIRIT OF THE COURT'S
6
ORDER.
7
MR. GELERNT:
8
MS. FABIAN:
9
YES, YOUR HONOR.
I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER REQUESTS FOR
CLARIFICATION, EXCEPT THAT I NOTE THAT THE PARTIES DID HAVE A
10
QUESTION ABOUT THE TIME FRAMES FOR REMOVED PARENTS.
11
-- THAT MAY NOT BE AN ISSUE TODAY SO MAYBE IT IS ONE THAT WE
12
ADDRESS IN FUTURE STATUS CONFERENCES WHEN WE HAVE REAL
13
EXAMPLES.
14
THE COURT:
YES.
I DON'T
THAT IS AN ISSUE THAT HAS SOME
15
COMPLEXITY TO IT, AND I THINK BOTH SIDES INDICATED YOU WOULD
16
LIKE ADDITIONAL TIME TO CONSIDER IT.
17
BENEFIT OF MORE INFORMATION, BRIEFING ON THAT.
18
MR. GELERNT:
19
THE COURT:
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MR. GELERNT:
IS THAT SOMETHING WE COULD PUT IN THE
THURSDAY SUBMISSION?
20
I WOULD ALSO, WITH THE
YES.
SO WE COULD CONFER ABOUT THAT.
I
22
THINK WE ARE -- I THINK NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW MUCH TIME THE
23
GOVERNMENT NEEDS ONCE THE PERSON IS FOUND.
24
PUT A DEADLINE ON FINDING THE PERSON WHO HAS BEEN REMOVED, BUT
25
WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO TRY TO PUT A DEADLINE ON ONCE THE PARENT
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IS FOUND THEN HOW MUCH TIME SHOULD THERE BE TO REUNIFY.
YES.
2
THE COURT:
3
MR. GELERNT:
4
THE COURT:
SO THAT IS WHAT WE WOULD TRY AND DO.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A BIG ISSUE, IT
5
APPEARS, BECAUSE IF WE HAVE 12 OUT OF 101 OR 102, WHEN WE LOOK
6
AT THE NEXT 28, 2900 INDIVIDUALS I AM ASSUMING THERE IS GOING
7
TO BE A COMMENSURATE NUMBER OF PARENTS WHO HAVE BEEN REMOVED.
RIGHT.
8
MR. GELERNT:
9
THE COURT:
10
PARTIES TO CONSIDER CAREFULLY.
SO IT IS ONE THAT I WOULD LIKE THE
11
MR. GELERNT:
12
THE COURT:
13
RIGHT.
AND WE CAN ADDRESS THAT AT THE NEXT
STATUS CONFERENCE.
14
MS. FABIAN:
I THINK AN IMPORTANT ISSUE ON THAT WILL
15
BE THAT THE CHILDREN MAY BE IN THEIR OWN PROCEEDINGS AT THAT
16
TIME, AND THERE WOULD BE ADDITIONAL WAIVERS OF THE PARENTS TO
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REMOVE THEM FROM THOSE PROCEEDINGS AND HAVE THOSE CLOSED.
AND SOME OF THEM MAY EVEN HAVE -- BECAUSE SOME OF
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THESE REMOVALS MAY BE ONES THAT OCCURRED ACTUALLY SOME LENGTH
20
OF TIME AGO, AND SO SOME OF THOSE PARENTS -- OR SOME OF THOSE
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CHILDREN MAY HAVE OBTAINED STATUS.
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THE GOVERNMENT'S ABILITY TO THEN REMOVE THEM FROM THE UNITED
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STATES.
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AND IT WOULD BE OUTSIDE OF
THERE ARE ISSUES LIKE THOSE.
BUT I THINK IT IS
IMPORTANT -- I THINK IF WE CAN IDENTIFY SOME OF THOSE WITH
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REGARD TO REAL SITUATIONS WE CAN BETTER TEE THEM UP FOR THE
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JUDGE -- FOR THE COURT TO DECIDE.
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MR. GELERNT:
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I KNOW THAT YOUR CO-COUNSEL WANTS TO RAISE SOMETHING
5
ABOUT THE FLORES ISSUE.
BUT I WAS GOING TO RAISE TWO OTHER QUICK POINTS IF
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7
THAT SEEMS RIGHT TO ME, YOUR HONOR.
THAT IS OKAY, YOUR HONOR.
YES.
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THE COURT:
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MR. GELERNT:
ONE IS WE WERE SEEKING CLARIFICATION
10
FROM THE GOVERNMENT, I THINK, ON WHETHER A PARENT ONLY MEANS
11
BIOLOGICAL PARENT.
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KNOW THEY ARE NOT THE BIOLOGICAL PARENT, BUT OTHER TIMES IT
13
MAY BE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN RAISING THE PARENT -- THE CHILD
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SINCE THEY ARE TWO MONTHS THROUGH ADOPTION OR SOMETHING.
I MEAN, SOMETIMES A PARENT MAY NOT EVEN
AND SO I -- WHEN THE GOVERNMENT SAYS THEY ARE NOT
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THE PARENT DOES THAT MEAN THEY ARE NOT THE BIOLOGICAL PARENT
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OR THEY DON'T -- THEY ARE NOT EVEN A PARENT STATUS?
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MS. FABIAN:
THIS IS THE FIRST I AM HEARING THIS
19
QUESTION SO I WILL ANSWER FROM WHAT I KNOW, AND CAN LOOK INTO
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IT MORE.
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IN THE SITUATIONS THAT I IDENTIFIED YESTERDAY, I
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BELIEVE AT LEAST ONE, IT TURNED OUT, WAS THE GRANDMOTHER.
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ANOTHER -- THE INDIVIDUAL ADMITTED PRIOR TO DNA TESTING THAT
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HE WAS NOT THE PARENT.
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SO IT IS NOT -- WE WOULD AGREE THAT AN ADOPTIVE
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PARENT WOULD -- WITH THE PROPER DOCUMENTATION, LEGAL
2
DOCUMENTATION, WOULD BE A PARENT.
THAT'S THE TYPE OF SITUATION WHERE DNA TESTING WOULD
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4
NOT BE USEFUL AND THAT PAPERWORK WOULD BE NECESSARY, AND THAT
5
MIGHT TAKE SOME TIME TO GET THE PROPER PAPERWORK FROM THE
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CONSULATES.
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THAT IS HELPFUL.
MR. GELERNT:
I APOLOGIZE.
I WAS
8
NOT MEANING FOR YOU TO HAVE TO TELL ME FOR EACH PARENT SO FAR
9
WHETHER THEY WERE BIOLOGICAL, JUST WHAT THE GOVERNMENT'S
10
POSITION WAS GOING FORWARD.
AND IT SOUNDS LIKE WE ARE IN
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AGREEMENT THAT, IF THERE IS AN ADOPTIVE PARENT, DNA WOULDN'T
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PROVE THAT BUT IF THEY HAD LEGAL PAPERS SHOWING THEY WERE THE
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ADOPTIVE PARENT WE WOULD CONSIDER THEM A PARENT WITHIN THE
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CLASS.
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SO THAT IS HELPFUL.
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MS. FABIAN:
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BE RECOGNIZED IN THIS CONTEXT.
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SOME INTERNATIONAL LAW THAT MAY HAVE TO BE WORKED OUT WITH
19
CONSULATES, BUT THAT IS NOT -- WE DON'T DISPUTE THAT LEGAL
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PARENTAGE APPLIES HERE.
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MR. GELERNT:
THANK YOU.
I THINK LEGAL STATUS AS A PARENT WOULD
OBVIOUSLY WITH QUESTIONS OF
THEN THE ONLY OTHER QUESTION I WAS
22
GOING TO RAISE, YOUR HONOR, IS I THINK ONE THAT YOU TOUCHED
23
ON, IS THAT THERE HAVE BEEN THE 12 PARENTS WHO HAVE BEEN
24
REMOVED, AND THERE ARE ADDITIONAL PARENTS THAT HAVE BEEN
25
REMOVED FOR THE OVER-FIVE AND ARE STILL BEING REMOVED.
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I BELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT HAS VERIFIED THIS, BUT THE
2
MEDIA IS REPORTING THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE A NUMBER OF
3
GUATEMALAN PARENTS WITH THEIR CHILDREN REMOVED TODAY, AND THEY
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APPEAR TO BE CLASS MEMBERS.
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THE LIST YET OF THE FIVE AND OVER.
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WE ARE NOT SURE, WE DON'T HAVE
WE ARE VERY CONCERNED THAT ANYBODY WHO HAS AGREED TO
7
REMOVAL BEFORE THIS NOTICE HAS GOTTEN -- AND NOW THAT YOUR
8
HONOR HAS SIGNED OFF ON THE NOTICE I AM HOPEFUL THAT WE CAN
9
GET IT OUT TODAY TO THE DETENTION CENTERS.
10
BUT THE FORM THE GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN USING
11
PREVIOUSLY, IN OUR VIEW, WAS MISLEADING AND MAY HAVE SUGGESTED
12
TO THE PARENTS THE ONLY WAY TO GET YOUR CHILD BACK IS TO WAIVE
13
YOUR RIGHT TO CONTEST REMOVAL.
14
NOW, MANY OF THOSE PARENTS MAY HAVE KNOWINGLY WAIVED
15
IT AND HAD NO CLAIMS, BUT MANY OTHERS MAY HAVE HAD A SHOT AT
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ASYLUM OR SOME OTHER CLAIM.
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AND SO, YOU KNOW, FOR THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN REMOVED
18
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO CONTACT THEM.
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NO FURTHER REMOVALS OF CLASS MEMBERS OCCUR UNTIL THEY HAVE
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BEEN ABLE TO SIGN THE NEW NOTICE THAT MAKES IT VERY CLEAR THAT
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YOUR HONOR'S RULING DIDN'T MAKE GETTING YOUR CHILD BACK
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CONTINGENT UPON WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO CONTEST REMOVAL OR APPLY
23
FOR ASYLUM.
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THE COURT:
BUT WE WOULD ASK THAT
ISN'T THAT ALREADY IN PLACE?
BECAUSE
THERE IS A CLASS DEFINITION, THERE IS AN INJUNCTION IN PLACE,
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DOESN'T THAT COVER THIS SITUATION?
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MR. GELERNT:
WELL, IT DOES, YOUR HONOR, EXCEPT THAT
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I DON'T KNOW THAT THE CLASS MEMBERS ON THE GROUND UNDERSTAND
4
ALL OF THEIR RIGHTS.
5
TO GET THEM NOTICE THAT HAS IT IN VERY PLAIN LANGUAGE YOU MAY
6
GET YOUR CHILD BACK, UNDER YOUR HONOR'S RULING, AND IT DOES
7
NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO AGREE TO REMOVAL.
WE BELIEVE THE FORM THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS USING UP
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9
AND THAT IS WHY WE THINK IT IS CRITICAL
UNTIL NOW, SINCE THE RULING, AND MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE BIT
10
BEFORE, DIDN'T MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR, BY ANY MEANS, THAT YOU
11
COULD CONTINUE TO SEEK ASYLUM OR CONTEST YOUR REMOVAL AND
12
STILL HAVE YOUR CHILD BACK.
SO THAT IS OUR CONCERN IS THAT GOING FORWARD WE
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THINK IT IS GOING TO BE FINE BECAUSE THE NOTICE IS CLEAR, IT
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HAS BOXES TO CHECK AND IT IS IN VERY CLEAR AND SIMPLE
16
LANGUAGE.
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AGREED TO REMOVAL -- GOTTEN THEIR CHILD BACK AND AGREED TO
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REMOVAL THAT WE ARE CONCERNED WITH.
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BUT I THINK IT IS THE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NOW
SO I THINK IF THE GOVERNMENT CAN GO BACK AND GIVE
20
THEM THE NEW NOTICE AND HAVE THEM SIGN THE NEW NOTICE RATHER
21
THAN RELYING ON THE OLD GOVERNMENT FORM, THAT IS WHAT WE WOULD
22
BE ASKING OF YOUR HONOR.
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THE COURT:
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MS. FABIAN:
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DO YOU OBJECT?
I DO OBJECT, YOUR HONOR.
THE NOTICE
THAT -- THE GOVERNMENT DID CREATE A NOTICE IMMEDIATELY
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FOLLOWING YOUR HONOR'S ORDER.
I KNOW THAT PLAINTIFFS BELIEVE
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IT IS UNCLEAR, WE DISAGREE BUT WE WERE WILLING TO WORK UP A
3
FORM THAT WAS -- THAT WORKED FOR THEM.
4
TOGETHER ON THAT NOTICE THAT YOUR HONOR APPROVED TODAY.
AND SO WE DID WORK
5
THE FORM -- THE INDIVIDUALS, I THINK, THAT ARE BEING
6
REFERENCED -- AND I CAN'T -- I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBERS IF CLASS
7
MEMBERS HAVE BEEN REMOVED SO FAR OR REALLY WHERE THEY ARE.
8
WILL LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT AS WE -- I WILL LEARN MORE ABOUT
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THAT AS WE COMPILE INFORMATION AND SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT THE
10
WE
REST OF THE CLASS.
BUT THE INDIVIDUALS SCHEDULED FOR REMOVAL TODAY ALL
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12
HAVE FINAL ORDERS OF REMOVAL.
13
IMMIGRATION JUDGE, SOME ARE EXPEDITED REMOVAL ORDERS.
14
THEM CLAIMED FEAR, AND SO THEY ARE PROPERLY SUBJECT TO
15
REMOVAL.
THEY DON'T HAVE AVENUES FOR -- TO CONTEST THAT
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REMOVAL.
THEY ALL REQUESTED TO BE REMOVED WITH THEIR CHILD
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AND SIGNED A FORM REQUESTING TO BE REMOVED WITH THEIR CHILD.
18
AND THEREFORE THE REMOVALS THAT I UNDERSTAND, AT LEAST AS OF
19
YESTERDAY WERE SCHEDULED FOR TODAY, ARE ALL FINAL ORDER
20
INDIVIDUALS WHO REQUESTED TO BE REMOVED WITH THEIR CHILD.
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THAT IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COURT'S INJUNCTION.
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MR. GELERNT:
SOME WERE OBTAINED BEFORE AN
NONE OF
AND
YOUR HONOR, AND WE HAVE NO REASON,
23
OBVIOUSLY, TO DISPUTE, AND WE HAVE NO BASIS.
24
BE TRUE THAT THEY ALL SIGNED THE FORM, I THINK THE DISPUTE IS
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WHETHER THE FORM WAS MISLEADING.
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THE OTHER THING I WOULD JUST NOTE, WHEN THE
1
2
GOVERNMENT SAYS THERE IS A FINAL ORDER, I THINK THEY ARE
3
MEANING THERE IS AN ADMINISTRATIVELY FINAL ORDER.
4
MEAN ALL AVENUES FOR CHALLENGING REMOVAL ARE GONE, BECAUSE YOU
5
COULD GO TO FEDERAL COURT TO CHALLENGE YOUR REMOVAL ORDER TO
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THE EXTENT THOSE AVENUES ARE POSSIBLE.
7
RECONSIDERATION FROM THE AGENCY.
YOU COULD SEEK
SO I THINK THE FACT -- AND IT MAY BE THAT ALL 13 OF
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IT DOESN'T
THOSE WHEN THEY GET THE NEW NOTICE WILL SAY -- IF THESE
10
REMOVALS HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED THIS MORNING THEY HAVE
11
OCCURRED, BUT TOMORROW BEFORE THE NOTICE, I MEAN, THERE IS NO
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REASON TO RELY ON THE OLD FORMS NOW THAT THE NEW NOTICE IS
13
THERE.
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IF THE PARENTS GENUINELY WANT TO BE REMOVED AND KNEW
15
WHAT THEY WERE DOING THEY ARE JUST SIMPLY GOING TO CHECK THE
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NEW NOTICE FORM BOX.
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ANY PREJUDICE TO THE GOVERNMENT.
SO I DON'T THINK THERE IS GOING TO BE
HOW MANY PARENTS, DO YOU KNOW, ARE
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THE COURT:
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SCHEDULED TO BE REMOVED TODAY?
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MR. GELERNT:
THE MEDIA IS REPORTING 13 GUATEMALAN
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FAMILIES WITH THEIR CHILDREN.
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VERIFICATION OF THAT.
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REACH OUT TO THE GUATEMALAN CONSULATE.
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THE COURT:
WE HAVE NO INDEPENDENT
I THINK WE WERE GOING TO MAYBE TRY TO
IS IT YOUR REPRESENTATION THAT YOU
BELIEVE THESE 13, WHATEVER THE NUMBER IS, ARE CLASS MEMBERS,
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AND YOU WOULD LIKE THEM NOT TO BE REMOVED UNTIL THEY HAVE SEEN
2
THE CLASS NOTICE AND AGREED.
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MR. GELERNT:
YOUR HONOR, I WANT TO BE CLEAR.
WE
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HAVE NO BASIS FOR KNOWING IF THEY ARE ALL 13 CLASS MEMBERS OR
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NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE NO INFORMATION.
6
PROBABLY ARE GIVEN THE TIMING AND THEY JUST RECEIVED THEIR
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CHILDREN.
I AM ASSUMING THAT THEY
IF THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS THAT THE 13 ARE NOT CLASS
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9
MEMBERS, FOR WHATEVER REASON, EITHER CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS OR
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THEY WERE NOT PARENTS WHO HAD THEIR CHILDREN TAKEN AWAY FROM
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THEM, THEN THAT WOULD -- WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, ACCEPT THAT
12
REPRESENTATION.
BUT IF THEY ARE CLASS MEMBERS AND IF THEY HAVEN'T
13
14
BEEN REMOVED WE WOULD ASK THAT THEY BE GIVEN THE NOTICE BEFORE
15
THEY ARE REMOVED.
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THE COURT:
ON THAT ISSUE, I WOULD DECLINE TO ISSUE
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ANY ORDER.
18
THE BENCH AND ISSUE AN INJUNCTION WHERE THE GOVERNMENT WOULD
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BE PRECLUDED FROM REMOVING THOSE 13 INDIVIDUALS, AND I AM NOT
20
PREPARED TO DO THAT UNLESS THERE IS A REPRESENTATION THAT
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THESE ARE CLASS MEMBERS.
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AS I UNDERSTAND IT, YOU ARE ASKING ME TO RULE FROM
MR. GELERNT:
OKAY.
YOUR HONOR, THEN, NO, I
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UNDERSTAND.
AND I CANNOT, IN GOOD FAITH, MAKE THAT
24
REPRESENTATION BECAUSE I AM RELYING IN SIGNIFICANT PART ON THE
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MEDIA.
IF THE GOVERNMENT, YOU KNOW, WERE TO TELL US RIGHT NOW
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2
THAT SOME OF THEM ARE CLASS MEMBERS, THAT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT.
BUT I THINK THAT THERE COULD BE REMOVALS TOMORROW OR
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THE NEXT DAY WHERE EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE SIGNED OFF ON THE
4
NOTICE TODAY THE GOVERNMENT IS STILL RELYING ON THE SIGNATURE
5
FOR AN OLD FORM.
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ASKED TO SIGN THE NEW FORM BEFORE THE REMOVAL TAKES PLACE,
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GOING FORWARD.
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AND THOSE SEEM LIKE NOW THE PERSON COULD BE
I AM HAPPY TO AGREE TO GET THAT FORM
MS. FABIAN:
OUT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
YES.
10
THE COURT:
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AND THIS, OF COURSE, DOESN'T PRECLUDE THE GOVERNMENT
12
FROM ELECTING NOT TO REMOVE THESE 13 PARENTS TODAY.
13
IS ANY DOUBT, THE GOVERNMENT MAY EXERCISE DISCRETION AND HOLD
14
THE FLIGHTS OR WHATEVER THE TRANSPORTATION METHOD IS PENDING
15
FURTHER CLARIFICATION.
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17
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IF THERE
BUT SO WE ARE CLEAR, I WOULD DECLINE THE INVITATION
TO ISSUE AN INJUNCTION AS TO THOSE 13 OR SO INDIVIDUALS.
THERE WAS -- I THINK THERE WAS GOING TO BE SOME
DISCUSSION ON THE JUDGE GEE IN FLORES.
YES.
THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR.
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MR. STEWART:
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I AM SCOTT STEWART IN FROM DC, YOUR HONOR.
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THE COURT:
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MR. STEWART:
YES.
I AM WITH THE MAIN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT,
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I HEAD THE OFFICE OF IMMIGRATION LITIGATION.
25
TO BE HERE ON BEHALF OF THE CIVIL DIVISION.
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I AM VERY GLAD
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AS YOU CAN UNDERSTAND, YOU HAVE SEEN, THIS IS AN
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EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT CASE TO THE GOVERNMENT, AND WE
3
APPRECIATE YOUR HONOR'S OPTIMISM, ENCOURAGEMENT, AND
4
RECOGNITION OF THE GOVERNMENT'S PROGRESS AND EFFORTS TO DATE.
5
I WANTED TO, AS MENTIONED, YOUR HONOR, TO ADDRESS AN
6
IMPORTANT POINT ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S UNDERSTANDING OF
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COMPLIANCE WITH ANOTHER PIECE OF THIS COURT'S ORDER IN LIGHT
8
OF LAST NIGHT'S ORDER BY THE FLORES COURT.
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IT SHOULDN'T TAKE ME LONG TO GET THROUGH, BUT I JUST
10
WANT TO MAKE SURE I LAY THE GROUNDWORK CLEARLY FOR YOUR HONOR.
YES.
11
THE COURT:
12
MR. STEWART:
LAST NIGHT, YOUR HONOR, THE FLORES
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COURT ISSUED AN ORDER REGARDING THE GOVERNMENT'S OBLIGATION
14
UNDER THE FLORES AGREEMENT.
15
THAT THE FLORES AGREEMENT CONTINUES TO REQUIRE THE RELEASE OF
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A CHILD UNDER THE AGREEMENT EVEN WHERE THIS COURT'S INJUNCTION
17
PRECLUDES SEPARATION OF THE FAMILY.
18
IN SHORT, THE COURT CONCLUDED
IN ORDER TO READ THOSE TWO INJUNCTIONS TOGETHER,
19
YOUR HONOR, THE FLORES COURT EXPLAINED -- AS WE UNDERSTAND IT,
20
YOUR HONOR, THE FLORES COURT EXPLAINED THAT THE PARENT COULD
21
WAIVE THIS FLORES RIGHT AND CHOSE TO REMAIN TOGETHER, AND
22
OBSERVED THAT SUCH A WAIVER WAS PERMITTED UNDER THIS COURT'S
23
INJUNCTION.
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25
IF I CAN JUST BRIEFLY EXPLAIN, YOUR HONOR.
AS YOU
UNDERSTAND, THE GOVERNMENT MUST NOW IMPLEMENT TWO EXISTING
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INJUNCTIONS, YOUR HONOR'S AND THE FLORES COURT'S.
2
TO PROVIDE JUST NOTICE ON HOW WE INTERPRET OUR COMPLIANCE WITH
3
YOUR INJUNCTION, YOUR HONOR.
4
AND WE WANT
AS VERY QUICK BACKGROUND, THE FLORES COURT STATED
5
THAT FLORES RIGHTS COULD BE WAIVED BY A PARENT AND THAT,
6
QUOTE, DETAINED PARENTS MAY CHOOSE TO EXERCISE THEIR MS. L.
7
RIGHT TO REUNIFICATION OR TO STAND ON THEIR CHILDREN'S FLORES
8
AGREEMENT RIGHTS, END QUOTE.
9
LIKEWISE, YOUR ORDER, YOUR HONOR, ALLOWS EXCEPTIONS
10
TO REUNIFICATION, SEPARATION PROVISIONS IF THERE IS, QUOTE,
11
AFFIRMATIVE, KNOWING, AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER BY THE PARENT.
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YOUR HONOR HAS ALSO EMPHASIZED, ON FRIDAY IN
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PARTICULAR, AS I RECALL A COUPLE TIMES, THAT THE ATTORNEY
14
GENERAL MAKES HIS OWN DETERMINATION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT TO
15
DETAIN OR PAROLE OR RELEASE SOMEONE.
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ORDER YOUR HONOR SAID DOESN'T IMPACT IN ANY WAY THOSE
17
DECISIONS, AND YOU WERE NOT SUGGESTING, YOUR HONOR SAID, THAT
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THE ATTORNEY GENERAL MUST RELEASE OR MUST DETAIN OR WHEN HE
19
CAN RELEASE OR DETAIN.
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PREROGATIVE, CONSISTENT WITH LAW.
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YOUR ORDER -- OR THE
THOSE ARE WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT'S
AND NOW I AM GETTING TO THE KEY POINT HERE, YOUR
HONOR, WHICH IS SORT OF THREE-FOLD.
FIRST, IN LIGHT OF THE FLORES RULING YESTERDAY, YOUR
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HONOR, WE, THE GOVERNMENT, INTERPRET YOUR ORDER TO PERMIT US
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TO PROVIDE FAMILIES DETAINED TOGETHER WITH ONE OF TWO OPTIONS.
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FIRST, THE FAMILY -- THE FAMILY -- THE ADULT MAY
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2
CHOSE TO REMAIN IN DHS CUSTODY WITH THE FAMILY TOGETHER.
3
UNDER THIS COURT'S INJUNCTION, SUBJECT TO THE NORMAL RULES ON
4
WHEN AN ALIEN WOULD BE RELEASED FROM CUSTODY, SUCH AS PAROLE,
5
SO THE FAMILY COULD STAY DETAINED.
6
THE PARENT WOULD BE ABLE TO WAIVE THE CHILD'S FLORES RIGHTS SO
7
THE CHILD COULD STAY WITH THE PARENT, REUNIFIED, CONSISTENT
8
WITH YOUR COURT'S ORDER.
AND AS THIS FIRST OPTION
THE SECOND OPTION THE GOVERNMENT CAN GIVE YOUR HONOR
9
10
IS THAT THE FAMILY, THROUGH THE PARENT, CAN AGREE TO RELEASE
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THE CHILD TO O.R.R. CUSTODY, IN WHICH CASE THE FAMILY WOULD BE
12
SEPARATED, BUT WITH THE PARENT'S CONSENT, AS YOUR HONOR
13
ALLOWED.
14
CONSISTENT WITH FLORES.
15
RIGHT.
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ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, CONSISTENT WITH YOUR COURT'S INJUNCTION,
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EITHER EXERCISE THE CHILD'S FLORES RIGHT OR WAIVE THAT FLORES
18
RIGHT SO THEY COULD STAY TOGETHER.
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AND THE CHILD WOULD BE PLACED THROUGH O.R.R. AND
SO THAT WOULD BE EXERCISING A FLORES
SO ONE OR THE OTHER, THE ADULT, YOUR HONOR, WOULD BE
THE KEY POINT THERE AND THE KEY REASON FOR THOSE TWO
20
CHOICES -- AND THIS IS WHY I READ THE INJUNCTION THIS WAY,
21
YOUR HONOR.
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BE ABLE TO USE THIS COURT'S ORDER, TOGETHER WITH THE FLORES
23
COURT'S ORDER, TO BOOTSTRAP A RIGHT TO RELEASE, A RIGHT TO
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HINDER, YOU KNOW, OR FORCE THE GOVERNMENT TO ALLOW PAROLE,
25
THAT SORT OF THING.
IS THAT IN NEITHER CIRCUMSTANCE WOULD THE PARENT
AGAIN, THIS IS CONSISTENT, I BELIEVE,
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WITH YOUR HONOR'S ORDER, WITH THE LAW, AND JUST AUTHORITIES TO
2
DETAIN.
BUT, ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT -- YOU
3
4
KNOW, INFORM THE COURT THAT THAT IS HOW THE GOVERNMENT
5
UNDERSTANDS YOUR HONOR'S ORDER, TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THE PARENTS
6
THOSE TWO OPTIONS.
7
FORCED TO RELEASE SOMEONE UNDER YOUR COURT'S ORDER, YOUR
8
HONOR.
AND IN NEITHER CASE IS THE GOVERNMENT
9
AND THIS IS, AS YOU CAN UNDERSTAND, YOUR HONOR, AND
10
YOU, I THINK, HAVE UNDERSTOOD IT IN PREVIOUS HEARINGS IN THIS
11
REGARD.
12
THE GOVERNMENT.
13
KNOW, THE GOVERNMENT IS ALLOWED TO DETAIN IN IMMIGRATION
14
CUSTODY THESE PARENTS.
15
THAT WOULD HINDER THOSE AUTHORITIES IF -- WE READ THAT AS AN
16
OFF-LIMITS READING AND OUT OF STEP WITH WHAT YOUR COURT'S
17
LETTER AND SPIRIT WOULD SAY.
18
THE AUTHORITY TO DETAIN AND TO PAROLE ARE CRITICAL TO
THERE ARE MANY CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH, YOU
SO ANY READING OF THE COURT'S ORDER
SO GIVEN ALL OF THOSE THAT IS -- JUST TO INFORM THE
19
COURT, YOUR HONOR, THAT IS OUR READING OF YOUR HONOR'S
20
INJUNCTION.
21
EXCEPTION TO THAT TO PLEASE -- WE ASK THAT YOU PLEASE RULE ON
22
THAT AND LET US KNOW RIGHT AWAY TODAY SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO --
23
BECAUSE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE KNOW, HAVE CLARITY ON
24
THAT TO COMPLY WITH IT.
25
AND WE ASK IF THE COURT DISAGREES OR TAKES
ABSENT THAT RULING WE WILL CONTINUE -- WE WILL
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PROCEED ON THAT SORT OF IMPLEMENTATION.
2
YOUR HONOR DISAGREES WITH ANYTHING ABOUT THAT UNDERSTANDING,
3
THAT YOU LET US KNOW RIGHT AWAY SO WE CAN MAKE SURE WE ARE IN
4
COMPLIANCE FULLY AND CAN ALSO EXPLORE APPROPRIATE OPTIONS,
5
YOUR HONOR.
6
BUT WE DO REQUEST, IF
BECAUSE IF WE -- JUST IN THE INTEREST OF FULL
7
INFORMATION, YOUR HONOR, IF WE ARE PUT TO THE CHOICE WHERE WE
8
ARE FORCED TO RELEASE PARENTS WE WILL NEED TO EVALUATE
9
OPTIONS, WE WILL NEED TO POTENTIALLY PURSUE IMMEDIATE APPEAL
10
11
TO BE ABLE TO PRESERVE OUR AUTHORITIES.
IF IT IS A SITUATION WHERE WE HAVE TO RELEASE WE
12
WOULD ALSO ASK THAT YOUR HONOR STAY YOUR ORDER TO THE EXTENT
13
IT WOULD PROHIBIT, YOU KNOW, HAVING PARENTS MAKE THIS CHOICE.
14
BUT I LEAVE THOSE AS OPTIONS AND AS REQUESTS FOR
15
YOUR HONOR JUST OUT OF EMPHASIS THAT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT
16
THE GOVERNMENT HAVE CLARITY IF THE ARTICULATION AND
17
UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR COURT'S ORDER IS INCORRECT SO THAT WE
18
CAN BE SURE TO COMPLY WITH IT AND KNOW HOW TO PROCEED
19
CORRECTLY.
20
AND TO BE CLEAR, YOU KNOW, TO THE EXTENT THAT WE
21
WOULD SEEK ANY STAY, IT IS NOT ON THE REUNIFICATION PIECE, IT
22
IS NOT ON THOSE, WE ARE FULL SPEED AHEAD ON THOSE.
23
ON THIS NARROW -- TO THE EXTENT WE WOULD BE REQUIRED TO
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RELEASE PARENTS UNDER YOUR COURT'S ORDER; WHICH AGAIN I DON'T
25
THINK IS THE RIGHT READING OF YOUR COURT'S ORDER, BUT I RAISE
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2
IT OUT OF IMPORTANCE FOR COMPLIANCE.
SO THAT IS THE KEY QUESTION, YOUR HONOR, AND THAT'S
3
OUR -- OR THE KEY ISSUE, AND THAT IS THE GOVERNMENT'S
4
UNDERSTANDING.
5
I HOPE I HAVE BEEN REASONABLY CLEAR.
THE COURT:
YES.
IF THERE IS AN APPEAL IT WOULD
6
DIVEST THIS COURT OF JURISDICTION OF ALL OF THE ISSUES, WOULD
7
IT NOT, INCLUDING REUNIFICATION?
8
MR. STEWART:
9
I DON'T BELIEVE SO, YOUR HONOR.
THIS
IS A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND, YOU KNOW, PROCEEDINGS
10
CONTINUE IN THE DISTRICT COURT, YOU KNOW, EVEN AS A PIECE OF A
11
CASE MIGHT GO UP.
12
AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW --
THE COURT:
THIS WOULD BE UNDER RULE 54, A CARVE-OUT
13
AND PIECEMEAL APPEAL, IN THEORY, IF IT IS JUST ON THIS
14
DETENTION OR RELEASE ISSUE?
15
MR. STEWART:
I AM NOT SURE IF -- WHAT THE RIGHT
16
HOOK, ASIDE FROM 1292(A), WOULD BE, YOUR HONOR.
BUT -- AND,
17
YOU KNOW, I WOULDN'T, YOU KNOW, WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO
18
PREJUDICE OTHER OPTIONS.
19
WHAT WE WOULD BE SEEKING A STAY ON BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF WE
20
WERE TO PURSUE A FAST APPELLATE STAY, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD WANT
21
-- WE WOULD NEED TO RUN IT BY YOUR HONOR FIRST, IS THAT ALL WE
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WOULD BE SEEKING A STAY IS ON THIS PIECE.
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REQUIRED UNDER YOUR HONOR'S ORDER TO START RELEASING PARENTS
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BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T KEEP THEM TOGETHER UNDER FLORES OR
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SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT IS THE PIECE WE WOULD BE SEEKING A
BUT RIGHT NOW REALLY WHAT WE ARE --
JULY 10, 2018
YOU KNOW, IF WE ARE
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STAY ON.
AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO GO FULL SPEED AHEAD AND
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DO THE BEST WE CAN ON REUNIFICATION, AND SEE WHERE WE ARE ABLE
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TO GO.
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THE COURT:
IF YOU ARE REQUIRED TO RELEASE -- SO
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THIS IS THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
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ARE REQUIRED TO RELEASE, WOULDN'T THAT BE UNDER JUDGE GEE'S,
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FLORES?
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IF YOU
DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS CASE.
MR. STEWART:
I DON'T -- IT DEPENDS ON IF WE ARE
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READING YOUR COURT'S -- IT DEPENDS ON THE RIGHT READING OF, I
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THINK, THIS COURT'S INJUNCTION, YOUR HONOR.
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AS JUDGE GEE SAID IN HER ORDER -- AND TO JUST QUOTE
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THE KEY LANGUAGE -- IS THAT DETAINED PARENTS MAY CHOOSE TO
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EXERCISE THEIR MS. L. RIGHT TO REUNIFICATION OR TO STAND ON
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THEIR CHILDREN'S FLORES RIGHTS.
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SO IT REALLY -- IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU UNDERSTAND THE
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MS. L. RIGHT TO REUNIFICATION.
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COURT'S -- THE RIGHT THAT THIS COURT HAS RECOGNIZED IS THAT IT
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DOES NOT REQUIRE RELEASE OF PARENTS.
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AND AS WE UNDERSTAND THIS
YOUR HONOR'S RULING AT THE MOTION TO DISMISS STAGE
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WAS A DUE PROCESS RULING ABOUT FAMILY INTEGRITY AND WAS --
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YOUR HONOR VERY CLEARLY EMPHASIZED THAT THE PLAINTIFFS HERE DO
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NOT CHALLENGE THE GOVERNMENT'S AUTHORITY TO DETAIN.
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WOULD NOT BE ANY PLAUSIBLE DUE PROCESS ARGUMENT TO FORCE A
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PARENT TO RELEASE WHEN THAT PARENT, THAT ADULT, IS SUBJECT TO
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AND THERE
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DETENTION UNDER A LAWFUL AUTHORITY UNDER THE IMMIGRATION LAWS,
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8, USC, 1225 OR THE LIKE.
SO, ANYWAY, IT DOES, I THINK -- AGAIN, IT IS A
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MATTER OF INTERPRETING THE TWO INJUNCTIONS TOGETHER.
BUT IF I
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HAVE UNDERSTOOD YOUR INJUNCTION CORRECTLY, YOUR HONOR, YOU
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KNOW, AS KIND OF DRAWN OUT BY YOUR STATEMENTS IN COURT, WE ARE
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NOT -- YOUR INJUNCTION DOES NOT FORCE US TO DO THAT RELEASE TO
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THOSE PARENTS WHO WE OTHERWISE HAVE VALID AUTHORITY TO KEEP IN
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CUSTODY.
MR. GELERNT.
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THE COURT:
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MR. GELERNT:
WE DON'T DISAGREE WITH THAT READING.
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OUR UNDERSTANDING IS THAT BOTH YOUR HONOR'S RULING AND JUDGE
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GEE'S RULING ARE FAIRLY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
YOUR HONOR WANTS REUNIFICATION, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE
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TOUCH TONE IS ALWAYS WHAT THE PARENT VIEWS IS THE BEST
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INTEREST.
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AND KEEP THEIR CHILD WITH THEM IN FAMILY DETENTION THEY HAVE
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THAT RIGHT -- I MEAN, SORRY -- OR WAIVE YOUR HONOR'S RULING
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AND SAY WE WANT TO RELEASE, WE WOULD RATHER OUR CHILD BE
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RELEASED UNDER FLORES.
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JUDGE GEE SAID VERY CLEARLY, THE PARENT HAS THE RIGHT TO
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EITHER KEEP THEIR CHILD WITH THEM OR NOT, SO WE AGREE WITH THE
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GOVERNMENT'S RULING.
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NOT UNDER YOUR RULING AND NOT UNDER JUDGE GEE'S FLORES RULING
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WHICH APPLIES TO THE CHILDREN, IT IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE SOME
SO IF THE PARENT WANTS TO WAIVE THEIR FLORES RIGHTS
I THINK THAT IS WHAT YOU SAID AND WHAT
ANY RELEASE BY THE PARENT IS GOING TO BE
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SEPARATE ACTION WHERE THE PARENT SAYS, I HAVE A DUE PROCESS
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RIGHT TO GET OUT OF DETENTION.
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I THINK THERE PROBABLY IS THAT DUE PROCESS RIGHT.
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JUDGE BOASBERG IN DC JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT, BUT IT DOESN'T
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IMPLICATE YOUR RULING OR JUDGE GEE'S RULING.
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IS WE AGREE WITH THE --
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THE SHORT OF IT
WHAT IF THE PARENT DOES NOT AGREE TO BE
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SEPARATED AND HAVE THE CHILD RELEASED TO O.R.R. AND DOES NOT
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AGREE TO JOINT DETENTION IN A FAMILY RESIDENTIAL CENTER.
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UNDERSTAND THE ARGUMENT THE GOVERNMENT IS LEFT WITH THE
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HOBSON'S CHOICE OF THEN HAVING TO RELEASE THE PARENT BECAUSE
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UNDER FLORES THEY CAN ONLY HOLD THE TWO FOR 20 DAYS IN
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DETENTION, BUT IF THE PARENT IS SAYING THEY DON'T WANT JOINT
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DETENTION THEN DO THEY HAVE TO RELEASE THE PARENT.
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ASSUME --
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AS I
AND LET'S
YOUR HONOR, I WISH THAT FLORES WENT
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THAT FAR AND REQUIRED THE RELEASE OF THE PARENT.
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PARENT SAID, I WANT MY CHILD WITH ME UNDER MS. L. AND I DON'T
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WANT TO BE HERE IN DETENTION LONG-TERM, I WANT TO BE RELEASED;
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FLORES DOES NOT GIVE THE PARENT THAT RIGHT.
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IF THE
IF THE PARENT IS GOING TO GET OUT WITH THEIR -- THEY
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ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BRING A SEPARATE SUIT.
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GOING TO WIN, MAYBE THEY ARE NOT UNDER DUE PROCESS.
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WOULD BE A BASIC CLAIM OF, THE GOVERNMENT CAN ONLY DETAIN ME
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IF I AM A FLIGHT RISK OR A DANGER.
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MAYBE THEY ARE
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BUT NOTHING IN FLORES WOULD REQUIRE THE GOVERNMENT
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TO RELEASE THAT FAMILY UNIT IF THE MOTHER SAID, I WANT MY
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CHILD HERE BUT I DON'T FEEL LIKE BEING IN DETENTION.
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THE COURT:
OKAY.
THIS MIGHT BE THE HAPPY SITUATION
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WHERE, IF I UNDERSTAND YOU CORRECTLY, MR. GELERNT, YOU ARE
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AGREEING WITH WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS OUTLINED.
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SO WHAT I WOULD PROPOSE, BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS
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ASKING FOR A DETERMINATION BY THE COURT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,
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IS THAT YOU MEET AND CONFER.
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IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE IN
WE ARE.
-- AND SIMPLY SEND ME A JOINT MOTION AND
ORDER.
MR. GELERNT:
THAT'S FINE, YOUR HONOR.
WE WOULD
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REUNIFICATION RIGHT AND THEY CAN ALWAYS WAIVE THE FLORES RIGHT
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TO RELEASE; BECAUSE ULTIMATELY OUR VIEW IS, IN BOTH CASES, THE
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TOUCH TONE IS THE PARENT MAKES THE DECISION, WHERE THEY ARE
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FIT AND NOT ABUSIVE, FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD.
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THINK THAT SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE DONE VERY, VERY QUICKLY TODAY.
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THE COURT:
OKAY.
SO I
I WILL BE LOOKING OUT FOR THE
JOINT MOTION AND ORDER.
MR. STEWART:
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, YOUR HONOR.
APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE.
THE COURT:
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
JULY 10, 2018
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MR. STEWART:
I SHOULD APOLOGIZE, YOUR HONOR.
I MAY
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MISS THE FRIDAY HEARING BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO UP TO SAN
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FRANCISCO TO ADDRESS ANOTHER UNACCOMPANIED MINOR CASE IN THE
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NINTH CIRCUIT.
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WITH THE COURT'S INJUNCTION AS BEST POSSIBLE.
BUT OTHERWISE I WOULD BE HERE TO TRY TO HELP
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THANK YOU.
THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR.
LET'S RECESS.
I WILL LOOK FOR FORWARD
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AGAIN FRIDAY AT 1:00 O'CLOCK.
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THANK YOU.
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MS. FABIAN:
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THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR.
THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR.
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I CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING IS A CORRECT
TRANSCRIPT FROM THE RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
IN THE ABOVE-ENTITLED MATTER.
S/LEEANN PENCE
7/10/2018
LEEANN PENCE, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER
DATE
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JULY 10, 2018
Exhibit W
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Enforcement and Removal Operations
Separated Parent’s Removal Form
Purpose: This form is for detained alien parents with administratively final orders of removal who are class
members in the Ms. L. v. I.C.E., No. 18-0428, (S.D. Cal. Filed Feb. 26, 2018) lawsuit. Class members are
entitled to be reunited with their child(ren) and may choose for their child(ren) to accompany them on their
removal or may choose to be removed without their child(ren). Any such decision must be made
affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily.
Instructions: This form must be read to the alien parent in a language that he/she understands. The alien
parent should indicate which option he/she is choosing by signing the appropriate box below.
Parent Name / Nombre de Padre: ________________________________________________________
Parent A # / A # de Padre: ______________________________________________________________
Country of Citizenship / Pais de Ciudadania: ______________________________________________
Detention Facility / El Centro de Detención: _______________________________________________
Child(ren) Name(s) / Nombre de Hijo:
___________________________________________________________
Child(ren) A # / A # de Hijo: ____________________________________________________________
Shelter / Albergue: ____________________________________________________________________
English: I am requesting to reunite with my child(ren) for the purpose of repatriation to my country of
citizenship.
Signature / Firma: ________________________________________________________________________
English: I am affirmatively, knowingly, and voluntarily requesting to return to my country of citizenship
without my minor child(ren) who I understand will remain in the United States to pursue available claims of
relief.
Signature / Firma: ________________________________________________________________________
Certificate of Service
I hereby certify that this form was served by me at________________________
(Location)
on ___________________________ on _____________________________, and the contents of this
(Name of Alien)
(Date of Service)
notice were read to him or her in the __________________________ language.
(Language)
___________________________________ __________________________________________
Name and Signature of Officer
Name or Number of Interpreter (if applicable)
Exhibit X
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1 CHAD A. READLER
Acting Assistant Attorney General
2 SCOTT G. STEWART
3 Deputy Assistant Attorney General
WILLIAM C. PEACHEY
4 Director
5 Office of Immigration Litigation
U.S. Department of Justice
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WILLIAM C. SILVIS
7 Assistant Director
Office of Immigration Litigation
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SARAH B. FABIAN
9 Senior Litigation Counsel
NICOLE MURLEY
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Trial Attorney
11 Office of Immigration Litigation
U.S. Department of Justice
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Box 868, Ben Franklin Station
13 Washington, DC 20442
Telephone: (202) 532-4824
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Fax: (202) 616-8962
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ADAM L. BRAVERMAN
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United States Attorney
17 SAMUEL W. BETTWY
Assistant U.S. Attorney
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California Bar No. 94918
19 Office of the U.S. Attorney
880 Front Street, Room 6293
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San Diego, CA 92101-8893
21 619-546-7125
22 619-546-7751 (fax)
Lee Gelernt*
Judy Rabinovitz*
Anand Balakrishnan*
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES
UNION FOUNDATION
125 Broad St., 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
T: (212) 549-2660
F: (212) 549-2654
lgelernt@aclu.org
jrabinovitz@aclu.org
abalakrishnan@aclu.org
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Attorneys for Petitioners-Plaintiffs
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Bardis Vakili (SBN 247783)
ACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN
DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES
P.O. Box 87131
San Diego, CA 92138-7131
T: (619) 398-4485
F: (619) 232-0036
bvakili@aclusandiego.org
Stephen B. Kang (SBN 292280)
Spencer E. Amdur (SBN 320069)
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES
UNION FOUNDATION
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
T: (415) 343-1198
F: (415) 395-0950
skang@aclu.org
samdur@aclu.org
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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Case No. 18cv428 DMS MDD
MS. L, et al.,
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Petitioners-Plaintiffs,
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JOINT STATUS REPORT
REGARDING REUNIFICATION
vs.
U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS
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On July 9, 2018, this Court held a status conference, and ordered the parties
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and how many Class Members may not be reunited with their children by the
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16 court-imposed deadline due to legitimate logistical impediments that render timely
17 compliance impossible or excusable . . . .” ECF No. 95 at 2. The parties submit this
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joint status report in accordance with the Court’s instruction.
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I.
COMPLIANCE
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A. Defendants’ Position
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As previously reported to the Court, Defendants have identified 102 children
24 under age 5 who, upon initial review by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
25 Services (“HHS”) were determined potentially to have been separated from a
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parent, and who therefore were potentially the children of class members. Upon
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1 further review, and based on the latest available information at the time of filing,
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Not Eligible For Reunification
• 14 are not eligible for reunification because their parents are not class
members.
o 8 parents had serious criminal history discovered during
background checks (criminal histories identified include child
cruelty and narcotics, human smuggling, a warrant for murder,
and robbery).
o 5 adults were determined not to be the parent of the
accompanying child.
o 1 parent faces credible evidence of child abuse.
• 2 are not eligible for reunification because their parents are not class
members at this time.
o 1 parent has been determined to present a danger to the child at
this time because an adult in the household where the parent
plans to live with the child has an outstanding warrant for
aggravated criminal sexual abuse against a 10 year old girl.
This determination can be reconsidered if the parent identifies a
different living situation.
o 1 parent detained in ICE custody is currently being treated for a
communicable disease. When the parent no longer has a
communicable disease, the reunification process can proceed.
• 10 are not eligible for reunification at this time. They will be assessed
for reunification after they are released from criminal custody,
provided that Defendants are made aware of that release.
o 8 parents are in the custody of U.S. Marshals Service. They will
be assessed for reunification after they are released from
criminal custody and are transferred to U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) custody.
o 2 additional parents are in state or county custody. They will be
assessed for reunification after they are released from criminal
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custody, provided that Defendants are made aware of that
release.
• 1 child cannot be reunified at this time because the parent’s location
has been unknown for more than a year. Defendants are unable to
conclusively determine whether the parent is a class member, and
records show the parent and child might be U.S. citizens.
Likely Eligible For Reunification
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• 4 children were reunified with family members before the July 10
deadline.
o 1 was released to a parent that ICE released into the U.S.
o 1 was released to a parent in the U.S. with the other parent
being deported.
o 1 was released to a parent in the U.S. with the other parent
being still in ICE custody
o 1 voluntarily departed with the child’s adult sibling, with the
consent of the parent who is still in ICE custody.
• 51 are eligible for reunification with a parent who is currently in ICE
detention.
o 34 parents have cleared a criminal background check and
parentage has been verified through a positive DNA match.
They are expected to be reunified on July 10, 2018.
o 16 parents have cleared a criminal background check but the
process for verifying parentage has not yet been completed.
They are expected to be reunified on July 10, 2018, or as soon
thereafter as parentage can be verified.
o 1 parent has criminal background check results that are still in
question and are being resolved today.
• 20 are eligible for reunification but cannot be reunified by July 10 due
to legitimate logistical impediments that render timely compliance
impossible or excusable.
o 12 of those parents were removed from the United States. The
Government will work with Plaintiffs’ counsel to contact these
12 parents and determine whether they wish to have their child
reunified with them in their home country. The parties’
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proposals regarding the process to be followed for these
individuals are laid out below.
o 8 parents were previously released into the United States and
are undergoing safety and suitability screening in accordance
with the TVPRA.
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Defendants contend that the above numbers show that Defendants are in
compliance with the Court’s order. Of the 75 children eligible for reunification,
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Defendants have already reunified 4, and expect to reunify 34 by the July 10
9 deadline, and 16 soon thereafter pending confirmation of eligibility. Of the
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remaining 20, 8 will be reunified as soon as HHS can determine that the parent is
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not unfit or a danger to the child in accordance with its existing procedures under
13 the TVPRA, and the remaining 12 may be reunified if their parents can be located
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and if those parents request reunification, and reunification is otherwise proper
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under the Court’s order. Moreover, of the 27 children not currently eligible for
17 reunification, 14 have parents who are not class members, and the remaining 13
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may be reunified if and when their parents no longer present a danger, have a
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21 release, and it is otherwise determined that they meet the criteria for reunification.
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Thus, any children not being reunified by the July 10 deadline are not being
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25 compliance impossible or excusable, and so Defendants are complying with the
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B. Plaintiffs’ Position
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reunification deadlines in the Court’s preliminary injunction order. Plaintiffs
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independent verification that these numbers are accurate, or that there are not
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additional children under five who should be on the government’s list. Plaintiffs,
9 however, can state the following: By today’s deadline, Defendants only plan to
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reunify about half of the parents with children under five years old. Plaintiffs
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recognize that Defendants cannot yet reunify the parents who are currently being
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five, the government is not in compliance with the clear deadline ordered by the
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For the Class Members who were deported without their children,
Defendants have not even tried to contact them or facilitate their reunification by
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For the Class Members who have been released from custody,
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25 the deadline. Defendants have all of these parents’ contact information, and there
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1 these parents to ORR’s lengthy sponsorship process, Plaintiffs do not believe those
2 procedures are required. Moreover, even if Defendants believed those procedures
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would prevent them from reunifying 8 parents in two weeks, they should have
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There are Class Members that Defendants do not currently plan to
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parentage through other means by today’s deadline.
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There is one child for whom Defendants have not even identified a
parent. They have not explained what steps they have taken to find this Class
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II.
DEADLINES
• Removed Parents: Defendants have provided to Plaintiffs the date of
removal and country of removal for all known removed parents with
children under 5. Defendants will provide to Plaintiffs the location of
the ICE detention facility where each removed parent was last held.
Plaintiffs’ counsel will seek to locate those removed parents and
provide them with notice of their right to be reunified. If any parent
expresses that he or she wishes to be reunified with his or her child
then Defendants will facilitate that reunification.
o Plaintiffs’ Position: Plaintiffs believe that once Defendants are
notified that a removed parent wishes to be reunified with his or
her child, reunification should occur within 7 days.
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o Defendants’ Position: Defendants ask the Court to allow a more
flexible time period because there are several issues that may
impact the timing of removal for these children. For example,
Defendants would need to obtain travel documents for the
child, and any ongoing removal proceedings for that child
would have to be terminated which might require separate
waiver from the parents and/or approval from an immigration
judge. Moreover, if the child has already obtained relief and is
in lawful status, then Defendants would not have the ability to
facilitate reunification with a parent abroad. Because pieces of
this process are out of Defendants hands, Defendants request
that the Court allow for a flexible schedule for such removals
that considers the need to complete these steps prior to removal
for reunification.
• Reunification To Released Parents: This issue will be determined, at
least in part, by the Court’s ruling on the parties’ joint submission on
the procedures to be followed by HHS under the Court’s order.
Accordingly, the parties will meet and confer following that ruling
and will submit a proposal, or respective positions, on this issue for
the Court’s consideration.
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Respectfully submitted,
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/s/ Lee Gelernt
Lee Gelernt*
Judy Rabinovitz*
Anand Balakrishnan*
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
FOUNDATION
125 Broad St., 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
T: (212) 549-2660
F: (212) 549-2654
lgelernt@aclu.org
jrabinovitz@aclu.org
abalakrishnan@aclu.org
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Bardis Vakili (SBN 247783)
ACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO
& IMPERIAL COUNTIES
P.O. Box 87131
San Diego, CA 92138-7131
T: (619) 398-4485
F: (619) 232-0036
bvakili@aclusandiego.org
Stephen B. Kang (SBN 292280)
Spencer E. Amdur (SBN 320069)
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
FOUNDATION
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
T: (415) 343-1198
F: (415) 395-0950
skang@aclu.org
samdur@aclu.org
Attorneys for Petitioners-Plaintiffs
*Admitted Pro Hac Vice
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CHAD A. READLER
Acting Assistant Attorney General
SCOTT G. STEWART
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
WILLIAM C. PEACHEY
Director
WILLIAM C. SILVIS
Assistant Director
/s/ Sarah B. Fabian
SARAH B. FABIAN
Senior Litigation Counsel
NICOLE MURLEY
Trial Attorney
Office of Immigration Litigation
Civil Division
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P.O. Box 868, Ben Franklin Station
Washington, DC 20044
(202) 532-4824
(202) 616-8962 (facsimile)
sarah.b.fabian@usdoj.gov
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United States Attorney
SAMUEL W. BETTWY
Assistant U.S. Attorney
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 23, 2018
Zero-Tolerance Prosecution and Family Reunification
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS)
have a process established to ensure that family members know the location of their
children and have regular communication after separation to ensure that those adults
who are subject to removal are reunited with their children for the purposes of removal.
The United States government knows the location of all children in its custody and is
working to reunite them with their families.
As part of the apprehension, detention and prosecution process, illegal aliens, adults and
children, are initially detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) before the
children are sent to HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and parents to
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Each entity plays a role in
reunification. This process is well coordinated.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
• CBP has reunited 522 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) in their custody who
were separated from adults as part of the Zero Tolerance initiative. The reunions
of an additional 16 UAC who were scheduled to be reunited on June 22, 2018 were
delayed due to weather affecting travel and we expect they will all be reunited
with their parents within the next 24 hours. There will be a small number of
children who were separated for reasons other than zero tolerance that will remain
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separated: generally only if the familial relationship cannot be confirmed, we
believe the adult is a threat to the safety of the child, or the adult is a criminal
alien.
• Because of the speed in which adults completed their criminal proceedings, some
children were still present at a United States Border Patrol (USBP) station at the
time their parent(s) returned from court proceedings. In these cases, the USBP
reunited the family and transferred them, together, to ICE custody as a family
unit.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
• ICE has dedicated the Port Isabel Service Processing Center as the primary family
reunification and removal center for adults in their custody.
• A parent who is ordered removed from the U.S. may request that his or her minor
child accompany them. It should be noted that in the past many parents have
elected to be removed without their children.
• ICE has posted information in all of its facilities advising detained parents who are
trying to locate, and/or communicate with, a child in the custody of HHS to call
the Detention Reporting and Information Line for assistance, which is staffed by
live operators Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 8 PM.
• The information provided by these parents to the call operators will be forwarded
to HHS for action. ICE and HHS will coordinate a review of their custodial data to
identify where each child is located, verify the parent/child relationship, and set
up regular communication and removal coordination, if necessary.
• Each ICE Field Office has Juvenile Coordinators who manage these cases
throughout the immigration court proceedings.
• Further, ICE maintains a publicly available online detainee locator which can be
used to locate adults detained by ICE. This site can be accessed at:
https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/index
ICE has completed the following steps toward reunification:
• Implemented an identification mechanism to ensure on-going tracking of linked
family members throughout the detention and removal process;
• Designated detention locations for separated parents and will enhance current
processes to ensure communication with children in HHS custody;
• Worked closely with foreign consulates to ensure that travel documents are issued
for both the parent and child at time of removal; and
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• Coordinated with HHS for the reuniting of the child prior to the parents’
departure from the United States.
U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement
• Minors come into HHS custody with information provided by DHS regarding
how they illegally entered the country and whether or not they were with a parent
or adult and, to the extent possible, the parent(s) or guardian(s) information and
location. There is a central database which HHS and DHS can access and update
when a parent(s) or minor(s) location information changes.
• As of June 20th HHS has 2,053 separated minors being cared for in HHS funded
facilities, and is working with relevant agency partners to foster communications
and work towards reuniting every minor and every parent or guardian via wellestablished reunification processes. Currently only 17% of minors in HHS funded
facilities were placed there as a result of Zero Tolerance enforcement, and the
remaining 83% percent arrived to the United States without a parent or guardian.
• Parent(s) or guardian(s) attempting to determine if their child is in the custody of
the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in HHS Administration for Children and
Families should contact the ORR National Call Center
(www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/resource/orr-national-call-center) at 1-800-203-7001, or via
email information@ORRNCC.com. Information will be collected and sent to HHS
funded facility where minor is located. The ORR National Call Center has
numerous resources available for children, parent(s), guardian(s) and sponsors.
• Within 24 hours of arriving at an HHS funded facility minors are given the
opportunity to communicate with a vetted parent, guardian or relative. While in
HHS funded facilities’ care, every effort is made to ensure minors are able to
communicate (either telephonic or video depending on the circumstances) with
their parent or guardian (at least twice per week). However, reasonable safety
precautions are in place to ensure that an adult wishing to communicate with a
minor is in fact that minor’s parent or guardian.
• Minors in HHS funded facilities are permitted to call both family members and/or
sponsors living in the United States and abroad. Attorneys representing minors
have unlimited telephone access and the minor may speak to other appropriate
stakeholders, such as their consulate, the case coordinator, or child advocate.
Additional information on telephone calls, visitation, and mail policies are
available in the policy guide.
• Under HHS’ publicly available policy guide for Unaccompanied Alien Children,
the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) releases minors to sponsors in the
following order of preference: parent; legal guardian; an adult relative (brother,
sister, aunt, uncle, grandparent or first cousin); an adult individual or entity
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designated by the parent or legal guardian (through a signed declaration or other
document that ORR determines is sufficient to establish the signatory’s
parental/guardian relationship); a licensed program willing to accept legal
custody; or an adult individual or entity seeking custody when it appears that
there is no other likely alternative to long term ORR care and custody.
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Exhibit Z
Case 3:18-cv-00428-DMS-MDD Document 86-1 Filed 07/05/18 PageID.1782 Page 1 of 16
1 CHAD A. READLER
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Acting Assistant Attorney General
WILLIAM C. PEACHEY
Director, Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL)
U.S. Department of Justice
WILLIAM C. SILVIS
Assistant Director, OIL District Court Section
SARAH B. FABIAN
Senior Litigation Counsel
NICOLE MURLEY
Trial Attorney
Office of Immigration Litigation
U.S. Department of Justice
Box 868, Ben Franklin Station
Washington, DC 20442
Telephone: (202) 532-4824
Fax: (202) 616-8962
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United States Attorney
SAMUEL W. BETTWY
Assistant U.S. Attorney
California Bar No. 94918
Office of the U.S. Attorney
880 Front Street, Room 6293
San Diego, CA 92101-8893
619-546-7125
619-546-7751 (fax)
Attorneys for Federal Respondents-Defendants
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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Petitioners-Plaintiffs,
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Case No. 18cv428 DMS MDD
DECLARATION OF
JONATHAN WHITE
vs.
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ENFORCEMENT, et al.,
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I, Jonathan White, for my declaration pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, hereby state and depose
2 as follows, based on my personal knowledge and information provided to me in the course of my
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I am a career officer in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
and have served in the Department of Health & Human Services in three Administrations. I am
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presently assigned to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and
8 previously served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement for the
9 Unaccompanied Alien Children’s Program.
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I have been involved directly in the actions which HHS has taken to implement
11 Executive Order (EO) 13841 (“Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation”)
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and comply with the orders in Ms. L., et al., v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al.,
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Case No. 18-cv-428 (S.D.Cal.). President Trump issued EO 13841 on June 20, 2018, and the Court
issued its orders on June 26, 2018.
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KEY HHS ACTIONS ON REUNIFICATION
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Focus on Child Safety: The Secretary of Health and Human Services has directed
18 HHS to take all reasonable actions to comply with the Court’s orders and to prioritize child safety
19 and well-being when doing so.
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Deployment of Additional Personnel: On June 22, 2018, the Secretary of Health and
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Human Services directed ASPR to deploy personnel and resources to help the Office of Refugee
Resettlement (ORR) of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of HHS reunify children
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Determination of Class Members: HHS has worked closely with U.S. Department of
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—to try to determine all individuals who meet the
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1 Court’s criteria for class members. The determination of class membership involves real-time, inter2 agency collection and analysis of facts and data to: verify parentage; determine location of DHS
3 apprehension and separation; determine parental fitness; and evaluate whether reunification would
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present a danger to the child. Class membership is not static; it can change due to transfers of putative
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parents from ICE to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) (or vice-versa), and newly-acquired information.
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Facilitation of Regular Communication Between Class Members and Children in ORR
8 Custody: HHS has deployed field personnel to help putative class members communicate with
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DEPLOYMENT OF ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL
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As noted above, on June 22, 2018, the Secretary of Health and Human Services
activated ASPR to augment the resources that ORR had already devoted to expeditiously discharge
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children from ORR care. ORR has had to continue performing core program functions for minors
who cross the border without parents (and who far outnumber separated children in ORR care). The
16 augmenting of resources has helped ORR continue performing those core functions.
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The activating of ASPR included the Secretary’s Operation Center (SOC), which is a
18 command center that operates 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. The mission of the SOC is to
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used for a public health emergency or natural disaster (e.g., Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico), the SOC
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can also serve as a communications hub for large, data-intensive, inter-departmental operations.
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ASPR activated an Incident Management Team. As of July 3, 2018, the Incident
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ASPR has also dispatched approximately 115 personnel to the field to engage directly
with putative class members in DHS custody. Those personnel—who are organized into four field
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1 teams— are from ACF, ASPR, the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National
2 Disaster Medical System’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT). The DMAT is a cadre of
3 trained health and medical professionals and para-professionals that augments ASPR’s capabilities
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Finally, HHS has executed a contract with BCFS Health and Human Services, Inc.
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(“BCFS”), to provide an additional 100 reunification case managers, plus approximately 40 staff for
8 logistical and administrative support. HHS has trained the case managers from BCFS, and is
9 deploying them on Thursday, July 5, and Friday, July 6, 2018, to augment existing field operations.
10 They too will engage directly with putative class members in ICE custody.
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DETERMINATION OF CLASS MEMBERS
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ORR has a process for placing unaccompanied alien children (UAC) with parents or
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other sponsors that is designed to comply with the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement, the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 (HSA), and the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection
16 Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA), as described in more detail below. This process ensures the
17 care and safety of children who are apprehended in the United States and then referred to HHS as
18 unaccompanied children.
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HHS has modified and expedited its ordinary process so that it can determine class
membership using the Court’s criteria and, to the extent possible, reunify class members and their
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Under its modified process, HHS identifies putative class members with children in
24 ORR custody and verifies parentage. Also, HHS determines the putative class member’s immigration
25 history to confirm where they were apprehended and separated from their child. Finally, HHS
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2 present a danger to the child. HHS generally performs these checks concurrently.
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Putative class members who are not verified as parents are not included in the class
by HHS. Putative class members apprehended in the interior, who have relevant criminal history,
have a communicable disease, or are otherwise parentally unfit or present a danger to a child, are not
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In general, HHS knows the names and locations of all children who are in ORR care
9 and custody at all times because ORR maintains that data in its online case management portal. The
10 ORR portal includes data about each child that DHS provided when DHS transferred the child to
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portal was not designed to determine class membership or facilitate reunification under the criteria
and deadlines established by the Court’s Order. Some of the data required to determine the class
16 membership of a putative class member resides with DHS, while HHS must collect some data directly
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The data collection, sharing, and analysis required to determine class membership is
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share all of the data required to determine class membership. The departments must therefore map
their data manually. Also, the class potentially encompasses parents who were separated from their
24 children before the Administration implemented the zero-tolerance policy, and those groups may not
25 have received the same family unit identifiers from DHS as the groups separated after the
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1 management files on the ORR portal. On top of these variables, a parent’s class membership can
2 change if the parent is transferred between ICE and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), or if information
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is identified and reunified, HHS has had each grantee at one of ORR’s approximately 110 shelters
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certify the separated children who the grantee reasonably believes are in its care. HHS has also
8 conducted a full manual review of the case management file for each one of the approximate 11,800
9 children in ORR custody—the substantial majority of whom were not separated from a putative
10 parent at the border—to confirm or rule out any indicia of separation. The manual review was
11 conducted by dozens of HHS personnel working nights and over the weekend. The results of both
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As of July 5, 2018, we have identified approximately 101 minors under age 5, within
ORR care, whose records contain indicia of separation. Class membership analysis for putative class
16 members associated with the larger group of minors 5 through 18 is ongoing. Also, some of the
17 identified minors may have been separated prior to crossing the border, or there may be other factors
18 that need to be explored that would not make their parents members of the class. HHS has received
19 confirmation from DHS that approximately 40 parents of children in the under-5 group are in DHS
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custody and another 9 are in U.S. Marshal’s custody. The class membership analysis for putative
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Verifying Parentage
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HHS is using DNA testing to try to verify parentage of all putative class members, as
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DNA testing is a faster but costlier method for confirming parentage than collecting
and assessing documentation and anecdotal information. When ORR implements its safety and
suitability policies in the ordinary course of administering its program, it confirms parentage through
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DNA testing as a last resort. HHS has dual-tracked global DNA testing to ensure child safety and to
8 expedite parentage verifications to try to comply with the deadlines in the Court’s order.
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ORR grantees are swabbing the cheeks of the children in ORR custody, while DHS
10 personnel or the field teams deployed by HHS are swabbing the cheeks of the putative class members
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The results are then transmitted electronically to the Incident
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The DNA testing process takes nearly one week to complete for each putative class
17 member and child. Once HHS has made a data match between a putative class member and child, it
18 may take the field teams and grantees up to two days to further validate the match and swab cheeks.
19 It may then take up to three days for laboratory services provider to collect the sample and conduct
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the test. Once the laboratory services provider completes the testing, it may take up to 24 hours for
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the Incident Management Team to receive and transmit the results back to the grantees and field
teams.
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The field teams are concurrently facilitating the completion of reunification
25 applications by putative class members. The packets seek medical and social data that bear on the
26 criteria for class membership, including parentage, parental fitness, and child endangerment. A copy
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My opinion is that DNA testing is the method of parental verification most likely to
2 protect children from harm given the compressed timeframe imposed by the court’s order. The risk
3 of placing children with adults who are not their parents is a real and significant child welfare concern
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for HHS because the experience of ORR is that children are smuggled across the border or trafficked
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by adults who fraudulently hold themselves out as parents. The children may not disclose the
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situation to CBP, ICE, or ORR because they may fear retaliation by the adults who brought them
8 across the border. In some instances, they may fear retaliation by their parents in their home country,
9 who have given them to the smuggler or trafficker so that they may earn money in the United States.
10 My opinion is that DNA testing mitigates the risk of the United States Government placing children
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If, however, HHS concludes that it can reliably and more quickly determine the
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parentage of a putative class member based on documentation or anecdotal information collected
from the putative class member, then HHS will make that determination to try to comply with the
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Background Checks for Parental Fitness
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HHS is assessing the backgrounds of putative class members by reviewing summaries
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endanger the child (charges of kidnapping/rape and child cruelty), and 12 more need to be further
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As discussed below, HHS’ ordinary process for placing children with sponsors
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HHS has modified and expedited its ordinary process when further assessing parental
2 fitness and potential child endangerment for a potential reunification with a putative class member in
3 DHS custody. For potential reunifications with putative class members in DHS custody, any further
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assessment of parental fitness and potential child endangerment involves only the review of the case
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management records (which includes, for example, case review notes and other electronic files) and
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the putative class member’s completed reunification packet for indicia of child abuse or neglect. If
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When further assessing parental fitness and potential child endangerment for potential
10 reunifications of putative class members who are no longer in DHS custody, HHS is modifying and
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For example, when placing a child with a putative parental sponsor who is no longer
in DHS custody, HHS would ordinarily verify the potential sponsor’s residential address and conduct
16 background checks of adult cohabitants to try to ensure that the potential sponsor is capable of
17 providing shelter and care – and that the potential sponsor’s cohabitants do not endanger the child—
18 after placement. To try to comply with the Court’s deadlines, HHS will likely need to streamline its
19 address verification process for putative class members. But HHS does not believe that it can
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UAC sponsors have always included the parents of UACs , and close to half of the
sponsors to whom ORR ordinarily releases UACs are parents.
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The Flores settlement agreement (“FSA”) prioritizes release to parents, if they are
25 available, and also specifically provides for ORR to ensure the suitability of such releases, and to
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Investigating the living conditions in which the minor would be placed and the
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Furthermore, under the HSA and TVPRA, HHS has developed a series of safety and
suitability requirements that ensure child welfare, upon release, is protected. These policies, many
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The policies include identifying the sponsor; submitting the application for release
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ORR requires all potential sponsors, including parents, to undergo fingerprinting in
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3 checks of databases involving criminal history. ORR also checks sexual abuse information, child
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ORR also requires that, if there are other adults living in the household with a
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sponsor (including a parent), those adults also undergo background checks. This ensures the child
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9 sexual abuse that ORR must further consider before approving the release.
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ORR also requires that sponsors, including parents, identify an alternative caregiver,
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To ensure safety and suitability for children, ORR considers the following factors
when evaluating release of a UAC to parents, other family members, and other potential sponsors in
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youth and the unaccompanied alien child’s family, if a relationship exists.
b. The sponsor’s motivation for wanting to sponsor the child or youth.
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potential sponsor (for cases in which the parent or legal guardian is not the sponsor).
d. The child or youth’s views on the release and whether he or she wants to be released to
the individual.
e. The sponsor’s understanding of the unaccompanied alien child’s needs, as identified by
ORR and the care provider.
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f. The sponsor’s plan to provide adequate care, supervision, access to community
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resources, and housing.
g. The sponsor’s understanding of the importance of ensuring the unaccompanied alien
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child’s presence at all future hearings or proceedings, including immigration court
5
proceedings, and the sponsor’s receipt of Legal Orientation Program for Custodians
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information that ORR provides to all potential sponsors.
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h. The linguistic and cultural background of the child or youth and the sponsor, including
cultural, social, and communal norms and practices for the care of children.
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i. The sponsor’s strengths, resources, and mitigating factors in relation to any risks or
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special concerns of the child or sponsor, such as a criminal background, history of
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substance abuse, mental health issues, or domestic violence and child welfare concerns.
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j. The unaccompanied alien child’s current functioning and strengths in relation to any risk
factors or special concerns, such as children or youth who are victims of human
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trafficking; are a parent or are pregnant; have special needs, disabilities or medical or
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mental health issues; have a history of criminal, juvenile justice, or gang involvement; or
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a history of behavioral issues.
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41.
In certain cases, the TVPRA requires a home study, prior to release. 8 U.S.C. §
1232(c)(3)(B) states: “A home study shall be conducted for a child who is a victim of a severe form
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of trafficking in persons, a special needs child with a disability (as defined in section 12102 of title
42), a child who has been a victim of physical or sexual abuse under circumstances that indicate
24 that the child's health or welfare has been significantly harmed or threatened, or a child whose
25 proposed sponsor clearly presents a risk of abuse, maltreatment, exploitation, or trafficking to the
26 child based on all available objective evidence.” In circumstances in which a home study is not
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required by the TVPRA or ORR policy, the Case Manager and an independent third party Case
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1 Coordinator may recommend that a home study be conducted if they agree that the home study will
2 provide additional information required to determine that the sponsor is able to care for the health,
3 safety and well-being of the child.
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42.
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ORR does not disqualify potential sponsors on the basis of their immigration status,
but does require sponsors (including parents) to complete a sponsor care plan. Among other things,
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the care plan identifies the adult caregiver who will act for the sponsor, should the sponsor become
8 unavailable, and how such caregiver will be notified of such situation. It also includes a safety plan
9 in some circumstances.
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43.
Throughout the release process, care providers work with the child and sponsor so
11 that they can plan for the child’s after care needs. This involves working with the sponsor and the
12
unaccompanied alien child to prepare them for post-ORR custody, assess the sponsor’s ability to
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access community resources, and provide guidance regarding safety planning, sponsor care plans,
and accessing services for the child. The care provider explains the U.S. child abuse and neglect
16 standards and child protective services that are explained on https://www.childwelfare.gov, human
17 trafficking indicators and resources, and basic safety and how to use the 9-1-1 number in
18 emergency situations.
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44.
Once the assessment is complete and a sponsor has been approved, the sponsor
enters into an agreement with the Federal government in which he or she agrees to:
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a. Provide for the physical and mental well-being of the child, including but not
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limited to, food, shelter, clothing, education, medical care and other services as
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needed.
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b. Attend a legal orientation program provided under the Department of
Justice/Executive Office for Immigration Review’s (EOIR) Legal Orientation
Program for Custodians (Sponsors), if available where he or she resides.
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c. Depending on where the unaccompanied alien child’s immigration case is
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pending, notify the local Immigration Court or the Board of Immigration
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Appeals within 5 days of any change of address or phone number of the child
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(Form EOIR-33). (If applicable, file a Change of Venue motion on the child’s
behalf.10 A “change of venue” is a legal term for moving an immigration
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hearing to a new location.)
d. Notify the DHS/U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within 10 days of
any change of address by filing an Alien’s Change of Address Card (AR-11) or
electronically at http://www.uscis.gov/ar-11.
e. Ensure the unaccompanied alien child’s presence at all future proceedings before
the DHS/Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the DOJ/EOIR.
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f. Ensure the unaccompanied alien child reports to ICE for removal from the
United States if an immigration judge issues a removal order or voluntary
departure order.
g. Notify local law enforcement or state or local Child Protective Services if the
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child has been or is at risk of being subjected to abuse, abandonment, neglect or
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maltreatment or if the sponsor learns that the child has been threatened, has been
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sexually or physically abused or assaulted, or has disappeared. (Notice should be
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given as soon as it is practicable or no later than 24 hours after the event or after
becoming aware of the risk or threat.)
h. Notify the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-
25
5678 if the unaccompanied alien child disappears, has been kidnapped, or runs
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away. (Notice should be given as soon as it becomes practicable or no later than
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24 hours after learning of the child’s disappearance.)
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i. Notify ICE at 1-866-347-2423 if the unaccompanied alien child is contacted in
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any way by an individual(s) believed to represent an alien smuggling syndicate,
3
organized crime, or a human trafficking organization. (Notice should be provided
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as soon as possible or no later than 24 hours after becoming aware of the
5
information.)
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j. In case of an emergency, such as serious illness, destruction of home, etc.,
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temporarily transfer physical custody of the child to another person who will
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comply with the terms of the Sponsor Care Agreement.
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k. In the event that a sponsor who is not the child’s parent or legal guardian is no
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longer able and willing to care for the unaccompanied alien child and is unable to
12
temporarily transfer physical custody, notify ORR using the ORR National Call
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Center, at 1-800-203-7001.
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45.
If HHS cannot reasonably complete processes that are material to ensuring the welfare
16 of the children presently in ORR custody within the deadlines ordered by the Court, then HHS has
17 no choice but to make class membership determinations with incomplete information. The use of
18 incomplete information increases the risk of not only incorrect class membership determinations, but
19 also reunifications that endanger the welfare of the children presently in ORR care.
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46.
My opinion is that some relaxing of the Court’s deadlines is needed to allow HHS, on
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a case-by-case basis, to complete processes that HHS determines are necessary to make informed
class membership determinations and to protect the welfare of the children presently in ORR custody.
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FACILITATION OF CLASS MEMBER COMMUNIATIONS
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47.
HHS has facilitated communication between putative class members by helping
26 putative class members connect with case managers. HHS has directed field staff to help facilitate a
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conversation between a putative class member and his or her child. For example, field staff may call
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Exhibit AA
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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Ms. L.; et al.,
Case No.: 18cv0428 DMS (MDD)
Petitioners-Plaintiffs,
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v.
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ORDER FOLLOWING STATUS
CONFERENCE
U.S Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (“ICE”); et al.,
15
Respondents-Defendants.
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A status conference was held on July 9, 2018. Lee Gelernt appeared and argued for
19
Plaintiffs and Sarah Fabian appeared and argued for Defendants. After consulting with
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counsel and being advised of the status of the case, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:
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1.
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documents to the Court:
On or before 6:00 p.m. on July 9, 2018, counsel shall submit the following
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a.
A joint status report on the issue of the procedures to be followed for the
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reunification of children and Class Members who have been released from ICE
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custody. To the extent counsel have agreed on the procedures, they should submit a
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joint motion and proposed order for the Court’s review. To the extent there is
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disagreement, each side should set out its respective proposal and specify the
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disagreements that require court resolution
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b.
A proposed notice to be provided to the Class.
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2.
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setting forth how many Class Members have been or will be reunited with their children
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by the court-imposed deadline, and how many Class Members may not be reunited with
5
their children by the court-imposed deadline due to legitimate logistical impediments that
6
render timely compliance impossible or excusable, e.g., detention of the Class Member in
7
criminal custody or removal of the Class Member from the United States. For the latter
8
group, counsel should explain why reunification may not be completed, and provide a
9
timeframe for those reunifications.
On or before 10:00 a.m. on July 10, 2018, counsel shall submit a joint status report
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3.
A further status conference shall be held at 11:00 a.m. on July 10, 2018.
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4.
The Court has set up a dial in number for counsel and any members of
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the news media that wish to attend. This number is for counsel and media
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only, who should follow the steps below to connect to the conference call.
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Members of the general public may appear in person.
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1.
Dial the toll free number: 877-873-8018;
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2.
Enter the Access Code: 9911153 (Participants will be put on hold
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until the Court activates the conference call);
3.
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Enter the Participant Security Code 07100428 and Press # (The
security code will be confirmed);
4.
Once the Security Code is confirmed, participants will be prompted
to Press 1 to join the conference or Press 2 to re-enter the Security
Code.
Dated: July 9, 2018
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Exhibit BB
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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Ms. L.; et al.,
Case No.: 18cv0428 DMS (MDD)
Petitioners-Plaintiffs,
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v.
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ORDER SETTING FURTHER
STATUS CONFERENCE
U.S Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (“ICE”); et al.,
15
Respondents-Defendants.
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A status conference was held on July 6, 2018. Lee Gelernt appeared and argued for
19
Plaintiffs and Sarah Fabian appeared and argued for Defendants. After consulting with
20
counsel and being advised of the status of the case, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:
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1.
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a list of the 101 children discussed at the conference that identifies each child and explains
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the status of each child’s reunification with his or her parent.
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2.
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ORR policies and procedures in dispute.
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3.
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motion and proposed order for the Court’s review and signature. Otherwise, counsel
On or before July 7, 2018, at 5:00 p.m., the Government shall provide to Plaintiffs
Counsel shall meet and confer about the list, and shall also meet and confer on the
To the extent counsel reach an agreement on these issues, they should submit a joint
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should be prepared to discuss these issues at a further status conference scheduled for July
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9, 2018, at 10:00 a.m.
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The Court has set up a dial in number for counsel and any members of
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the news media that wish to attend. This number is for counsel and media
5
only, who should follow the steps below to connect to the conference call:
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1.
Dial the toll free number: 877-873-8018;
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2.
Enter the Access Code: 9911153 (Participants will be put on hold
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until the Court activates the conference call);
3.
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Enter the Participant Security Code 07090428 and Press # (The
security code will be confirmed);
4.
Once the Security Code is confirmed, participants will be prompted
to Press 1 to join the conference or Press 2 to re-enter the Security
Code.
Dated: July 6, 2018
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Exhibit CC
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
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STATE OF WASHINGTON, et al.
NO. 2:18-CV-00939
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Plaintiff,
DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
10
V.
11
12
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
et al.,
13
Defendants.
14
I, Francisco Serrano, declare as follows:
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1.
I am over the age of 18 and have personal knowledge of the facts herein. If called
16
as a witness, I could and would testify competently to the matters set forth below.
17
2.
I reside in the District of Columbia. I live with my wife, my mother, and my two
18
children who are fifteen and seventeen years old.
19
3.
In May 2018, my niece Maria called me to tell me that she had traveled from E1
20
Salvador with a caravan, that she was at the Mexico-United States border and that she was going
21
to cross the border by San Ysidro. She also told me that she was traveling with her two children,
22
M. who is 7 years old and N. who is 2 years old.
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4.
Approximately a week later I received a call from a shelter indicating that the
24
children were going to be separated from Maria, that they were on their way to New York, that
25
Maria had designated me as a sponsor and asking me whether I was willing to be the sponsor. I
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DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
I
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE of CALIFORNIA
1300 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-445-9555
I
told the person that I would be the sponsor and then the person told me that I would be able to
2
talk to the children twice a week. Attached hereto as Exhibits 1 and 2 are the forms I was told
3
to complete in early May 2018 so that I could receive Maria's two sons.
4
5.
I have spoken with the seven-year-old on several occasions since the family
5
arrived. He told me that officials told him that he and his little brother were being taken to a
6
detention center in Washington, D.C. to be closer to me, their uncle. I received a phone call from
7
the seven-year-old who thought he was in Washington, D.C., but he was not. He was in New
8
York. I was told by a social worker that the two young boys are in Lutheran Youth Hostel of
9
New York.
10
6.
To become the sponsor the social worker told me that I had to provide: 1) Maria's
11
mother's birth certificate, 2) Maria's birth certificate, 3) the kids' birth certificates, and 4) my
12
birth certificate, driver's license, passport and proof of citizenship. In addition to completing the
13
paperwork, I had to provide copies of my identification and police record. I did not have copies
14
of Maria's mother's, Maria's or the kids' birth certificates so I had to ask persons in El Salvador
15
to send them to me. This process took 5 days because a fi-iend was in El Salvador and was able
16
to help me, otherwise the process would have taken 15 to 20 days.
17
7.
The social worker who was working with the kids told me that once I submitted
18
the documents she would get approval within 36 hours and the children would be released within
19
24 hours after that. I did not hear from them within 36 hours, but I assumed that everything was
20
valid because I had completed all of the forms and followed all of the instructions.
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8.
Approximately one week after I provided the paperwork I was told that I had to
be fingerprinted. The next day I took time off work and got fingerprinted.
9.
After I submitted all the requested documents the social worker told me that she
24
was very sorry but that she had only been able to get one of the approvals she needed to approve
25
the paperwork. She said that she did everything she could but it was out of her hands.
26
DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
2
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
1300 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-445-9555
1
10.
In late May 2018, I received a power of attorney from my niece Maria giving me
2
the authorization to care for her two minor sons. A copy of the notarized power of attorney is
3
attached hereto as Exhibit 3. 1 provided a copy of this power of attorney to the social worker in
4
early June 2018.
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11.
About a week later I was asked to complete a certified form for a further
6
background check. On June 1, 2018, I completed the additional form that Lutheran Social
7
Services had provided to me to get authorization to receive Maria's two sons. I had to have the
8
form notarized. A copy of that form is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.
9
12.
Then I was informed that I passed the background check but they needed one
10
more week to release the kids to me. The seven-year-old boy called me and told me that
11
officials had told him that he and his brother would be released to me in a week.
12
13.
But then, I was told that they needed to perform a DNA test to confirm that
13
Maria is the children's mom. Recently, the social worker told me that a few days ago a
14
government employee went to Otay Mesa where Maria was detained to conduct the DNA test
15
but that Maria was not there. Later, when I spoke to Maria she said that she had been at Otay
16
Mesa the entire time.
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14.
On June 22, several weeks after I submitted all of the paperwork, on June 22,
18
2018, I was told that the paperwork I submitted was wrong, the power of attorney was not
19
valid, and the boys would not be released to me. She said that there were new forms we had to
20
complete, but she did not send me the forms until Friday, June 29, 2018. Those forms are
21
attached hereto as Exhibits 5 and 6.
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15.
On June 27 after borrowing money from family members, I was able to gather
23
$10,000 to post Maria's bond. An immigration agent told me that Maria would come out on
24
June 28, 2018 and that she would be taken to the bus station so she could take the bus to
25
Washington, D.C. So Maria's bus ticket was for June 28. But immigration released her on
26 1 June 27 and Maria called me because the agents left her in a McDonald's and she did not have
DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
3
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
I Street
Sacrammen to, CA 95814
en
916-445-9555
I
any place to go or to sleep. She had to look for someone to take her in for one night and now
2
she in on the way to Washington, D.C.
3
16.
On June 28, 2018, I talked to the social worker who told me that we will have
4
to start the sponsorship process again and that Maria will have to fill the application and
5
request the children because she already was released from immigration detention.
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17.
I am concerned that now the process for Maria's children to be reunited with my
7
family will have to start all over again. Everyone in my home, including my 78-year-old
8
mother, will have to submit fingerprints, police records, and identification, and we will have to
9
complete a new application form. Because of my mother's age, it is difficult to get her
10
fingerprints, and immigration officials previously told her that she would not have to submit
11
fingerprints again. I was told that my niece Maria will also have to be fingerprinted and will
12
have to submit all the documentation, as well. I am concerned that Maria will not be able to
13
produce the right paperwork to be reunited with her sons. Maria does not have a passport, and
14
all she has is an ID card from E1 Salvador.
15
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18.
All this process has been very difficult for my family:
a.
At first when I would talk to M., the 7-year-old, he was very talkative and
17
excited because the social worker told him he would be out within a week. When the time came
18
that M. expected to be released and nothing happened he sounded depressed, he would not say
19
much and wanted to cry. He asked me why I had not picked him up yet. The social worker told
20
me that M. is depressed and asked me for words of encouragement to cheer him up. On June 28,
21
I spoke with him and he is glad because he thinks that soon he is going to be reunited with his
22
mother. I am worried about M.'s mental health when he learns that we have to start the process
23
again and that he is not going to be released soon.
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b.
Because I am only able to speak on the phone and N. is too young, I have
not been able to speak with him at all. M. told me that N. cries all the time, and that the only
26
DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
4
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE CALIFORNIA
13300 0 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-445-9555
1
time that the kids see each other is at night. M. told me that they let N. stay with him at night
2
because he is the only one with whom N. won't cry.
3
C.
When I speak with Maria she asks for an update about the children and is
4
speechless when I tell her that I am still waiting for approval. She cries. She has only been able
5
to speak with the kids a few times.
6
d.
The most affected person by all this is my mother. She raised Maria after
7
her mother died when Maria was 8 months o Id. At first, I did not want to tell my mom what was
8
happening because she is 78 years old and I was concerned that the news would adversely impact
9
her health. I only told her that Maria and the kids had crossed the border but were detained.
10
After watching news, my mom demanded I tell her what was happening. My mom became ill
11
when I told her that the kids had been separated from Maria Ever since my mom found out about
12
the family separation, she has had an intense headache and I had to take her to see a doctor. I
13
am really concerned about my mom's health. For Maria, the separation from her kids repeats
14
the story as when she lost her mother.
15
e.
On my part, this process has been very depressive and frustrating. When
16
I finally thought that they were going to give me the children they tell me no. I have also had to
17
take time off work to do all that has been asked of me.
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19.
Iam hopeful that Maria, M. and N. will be reunited soon.
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I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California and the laws
of the United States that the foregoing is true and correct.
Dated this 30th day of June 2018 in Washington D.C.
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[Signature]
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FRANCISCO SERRANO
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DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
5
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
1300 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-445-9555
1
CERTIFICATION OF TRANSLATION
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Manuel Duran, a translator certified by the Judicial Council of California and the Office
of Federal Courts, certifies that he translated/transcribed completely and accurately, and to the
best of his ability the English translation of the following Spanish document(s):
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NO. 2:18-CV-00939
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DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS'
MOTION FOR EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
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I swear under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed on July 2, 2018
in Oceanside, California.
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CALIFOP,NIA
JUDICIAL COUNCIL
CERTIFICATION 30034:
July 2, 2018
Manuel Duran
California Certification No. 300344
Federal Court Certification No. 93-462
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DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
1300 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-445-9555
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
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NO. 2:18-CV-00939
STATE OF WASHINGTON, et al.,
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Plaintiff,
DECLARACION DE FRANCISCO
SERRANO EN APOYO A PETICI6N
DE LOS DEMANDANTES PARA
EXHIBICI6N DE PRUEBAS
ACELERADA
10
V.
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12
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et
al.,
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Defendants.
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Yo, Francisco Serrano, declaro to siguiente:
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1.
Tengo mas de 18 anos de edad y tengo conocimiento personal de los hechos en
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este documento. Si se me llamara como testigo, podria y testificaria de manera competente a las
17
cuestiones que se exponen a continuaci6n.
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2.
Yo resido en el Distrito de Columbia. Vivo con mi esposa, mi mama, y mis dos
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hijos que tienen quince y diecisiete anos de edad.
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3.
En mayo de 2018, mi sobrina Maria me llam6 para decirme que habia viajado
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desde El Salvador con una caravana, que estaba en la frontera de Mexico y los Estados Unidos,
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y que iba a cruzar la frontera por San Ysidro. Tambien me dijo que estaba viajando con sus dos
23
ninos, M. de 7 anos de edad y N. de 2 anos de edad.
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4.
Aproximadamente una semana despues recibi una llamada de un albergue
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diciendome que los ninos iban a ser separados de Maria, que iban rumbo a Nueva York, que
26
DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
1
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
I Street
Sacrammen to, CA 95814
en
916-445-9555
I
Maria me habia designado como patrocinador y preguntandome que si yo estaba dispuesto a
2
ser el patrocinador. Yo le dije a la persona que seria el patrocinador y la persona me dijo que
3
yo podria hablar con los ninos dos veces por semana. Adjunto los Documentos 1 y 2 son los
4
formularios que me dijeron que completara a principios de mayo para que pudiera recibir a los
5
ninos de Maria.
6
5.
Yo he hablado con el nitro de 7 anos en varias ocasiones desde que la familia
7
lleg6. El me dijo que oficiales le dijeron que a el y a su hermanito los iban a llevar a un centro
8
de detenci6n en Washington, D.C. para estar mas cerca de mi, sus tio. Recibi una Ramada del
9
nitro de siete anos quien pensaba que estaba en Washington, D.C., pero no era asi. El estaba en
10
Nueva York. Una trabajadora social me dijo que los dos ninos estdn Lutheran Youth Hostel en
11
Nueva York.
12
6.
Para ser el patrocinador la trabajadora social me dijo que tenfa que proveer: 1) el
13
acta de nacimiento de la mama de Maria, 2) el acta de nacimiento de Maria, 3) las actas de
14
nacimiento de los ninos, y 4) mi acta de nacimiento, licencia de conducir, pasaporte y pruebas
15
de ciudadania. Ademas de completar el papeleo, tuve que proporcionar copias de mi
16
identificaci6n y registro policial. Yo no tenia copias de las actas de nacimiento de la mama de
17
Maria, de Maria o de los ninos asi es que tuve que contactar a personas en El Salvador para que
18
me las enviaran. Este proceso tomo 5 dias porque un amigo estaba en El Salvador y me pudo
19
ayudar, si no, el proceso hubiera durado de 15 a 20 dias.
20
7.
La trabajadora social que estaba trabajando con los ninos me dijo que cuando yo
21
entregara los documentos ella obtendria aprobaci6n en 36 horas y los ninos saldrian 24 horas
22
despues de eso. No escuch6 de ellos en las pr6ximas 36 horas, pero asumi que todo era valido
23
porque ya habia completado todos los formularios y seguido todas las instrucciones.
24
8.
Aproximadamente una semana despues que proporcione el papeleo me dijeron
25
que me tenian que tomar la huellas. El dia siguiente pedi tiempo en mi trabajo y me tomaron las
26
huellas.
DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
2
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
I Street
Sacramen to, CA 95814
men
916-445-9555
1
9.
Despues de que entregu6 los documentos que me pidieron la trabajadora social
2
me dijo que to sentia mucho pero que solo habia obtenido una de las aprobaciones que necesitaba
3
para aprobar el papeleo. Ella dijo que hizo todo to posible pero que estaba fuera de sus manos.
4
10.
A finales de mayo, recibi un poder legal de mi sobrina Maria dandome la
5
autorizacion para cuidar de sus dos ninos menores. Una copia del poder legal notariado esta
6
adjunta como Documento 3. Yo proporcione el poder legal a la trabajadora social a principios
7
de junio.
8
11.
Aproximadamente una semana despues me pidieron que completara una forma
9
certificada para una verificaci6n de antecedentes adicional. El primero de junio de 2018, yo
10
complete el formulario que me proporciono Lutheran Social Services para obtener la
11
autorizacion de recibir a los dos hijos de Maria. Tuve que certificar el formulario por notario.
12
Una copia del formulario esta adjunto como Documento 4.
13
12.
Luego me informaron que pas6 la verificaci6n de antecedentes, pero necesitaban
14
una semana mas para entregarme a los ninos. Hable con el nino de siete anos y me dijo que los
15
oficiales le dijeron que a el y su hermano me los iban a entregar en una semana.
16
13.
Pero luego me dijeron que necesitaban hacer una prueba de ADN para confirmar
17
que Maria es la mama de los ninos. Recientemente, la trabajadora social me dijo que hace unos
18
dias un empleado del gobierno fue a Otay Mesa donde Maria estaba detenida para tomarle la
19
prueba de ADN pero Maria no estaba ahi. Despues, cuando hable con Maria ella dijo que habia
20
estado en Otay Mesa todo el tiempo.
21
14.
E122 de junio, varias semanas despues que entregue todo el papeleo me dijeron
22
que el papeleo que entregue estaba equivocado, que el poder legal no era valido, y que no me
23
iban a entregar a los ninos. Ella dijo que hay formularios nuevos que tenemos que completar,
24
pero no me envi6 los formularios hasta el viernes, 29 de junio de 2018. Esos formularios estan
25
adjuntos como Documentos 5 X 6.
26
DECLARA'T'ION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
3
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
1300 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-445-9555
1
15.
El 27 de junio despues de pedir dinero prestado a miembros de mi familia, pude
2
recolectar $10,000 y pague la fianza de Maria Un agente de inmigraci6n me dijo que Maria
3
saldria el 28 de junio de 2018 y que la llevarian a estaci6n de autobus para que ella pudiera tomar
4
el autobus a Washington D.C. Asi es que el boleto de autobus de Maria estaba para la fecha del
5
28 de junio. Pero inmigraci6n liber6 a Maria el 27 de junio y Maria me llam6 porque los agentes
6
la dejaron en un McDonald's y ella no tenia a donde it ni dormir. Ella tuvo que buscar a alguien
7
que la alojara una noche y ahora esta en camino hacia Washington D.C.
8
9
10
11
16.
El 28 de junio de 2018, hable con la trabajadora social quien me dijo que
tendremos que empezar el proceso de y que Maria tendra que llenar la aplicaci6n y pedir a los
ninos porque ya sali6 de detenci6n de inmigraci6n.
17.
Estoy preocupado que ahora tendremos que empezar de nuevo el proceso para
12
reunir a los ninos de Maria con mi familia. Todos en mi casa, incluyendo mi mama de 78 anos
13
de edad, tendrdn que someter huellas, registro policial, e identificaci6n, y tendremos que
14
completar un nuevo formulario. Debido a la edad de mi mama, es dificil tomarle las huellas, y
15
oficiales de inmigraci6n me dijeron anteriormente que ella no tendria que someterse a las huellas
16
de nuevo. Tambien me informaron que Maria tendra que tomarse las huellas y tendra que
17
presentar toda la documentaci6n. Estoy preocupado de que Maria no pueda producir el papeleo
18
necesario para poder reunirse con sus dos hijos. Maria no tiene pasaporte, y todo to que tiene es
19
to tarjeta de identificaci6n de El Salvador.
20
21
18.
Todo este proceso ha sido muy dificil para mi familia:
a..
Al principio cuando hablaba con M., el nifio de 7 anos, el estaba muy
22
platicador y estaba emocionado porque la trabajadora social le dijo que saldria en una semana,
23
Cuando el tiempo cuando M. esperaba salir lleg6 y nada pas6, el se escuchaba depresivo, nc
24
decia mucho y queria llorar. Me pregunt6 por que no he venido por el todavia. La trabajador
25
social me dijo que M. estaba depresivo y me pidi6 palabras para animarlo. El 28 de junio habl
26
con el y esta contento porque piensa que pronto va a reunirse con su mama. Estoy mds
DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
4
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
I Street
Sacrammen to, CA 95814
en
916-445-9555
I
preocupado por la salud mental de M. cuando se entere que tendremos que empezar el proceso
2
de nuevo y que no va a salir pronto.
3
b.
Porque solo puedo hablar por telefono y N. es muy pequeno no he podido
4
hablar con el. M. me dijo que N. llora todo el tiempo, y el unico momento en que los dos ninos
5
se ven es en la noche. M. dijo que dejan que N. se quede con M. por la noche porque es to unico
6
que hard que N. deje de Ilorar
7
C.
Cuando hablo con Maria ella me pregunta que estd pasando con los ninos
8
y se queda sin palabras cuando le digo que todavfa estoy esperando la aprobaci6n. Ella llora.
9
Ella solamente ha podido hablar con los ninos pocas veces.
10
d.
La mds afectada por todo esto es mi mama. Ella crio a Maria despues que
11
su mamd murio cuando Maria tenia 8 meses de edad. Al principio, yo no queria decirle a mi
12
mamd to que estaba pasando porque ella tiene 78 anos de edad y estaba preocupado que si le
13
decia se iba a poner mal de salud. Yo solo le dije que Maria y los ninos habian cruzado la
14
frontera, pero estaban detenidos. Despues de ver las noticias, mi mamd exigio que le dijera que
15
estaba pasando. Mi mamd se puso mal de salud cuando le dije que los ninos habian sido
16
separados de Maria. Desde que mi mama se enter6 de la separaci6n familiar ha tenido un dolor
17
de cabeza intenso y yo tuve que llevarla al doctor. Estoy muy preocupado por la salud de mi
18
mamd. Para Maria, la separaci6n de sus ninos repite la historia de cuando ella perdi6 a su mamd.
19
e.
Por mi parte, este proceso ha lido muy depresivo y frustrante. Cuando al
20
fin pensaba que me iban a dar los ninos me dicen que siempre no. Tambien he tenido que
21
descansar de mi trabajo para hacer todo to que me han pedido que haga.
22
23
24
25
26
DECLARATION OF FRANCISCO
SERRANO IN SUPPORT OF
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
EXPEDITED DISCOVERY
5
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
STATE of CALIFORNIA
1300 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-445-9555
I
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DECLARKrION OF FRANCTV'O
SURRANO IN Slli'C'OW(W
I
PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR
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Ona NA DE REMCACION DE REFUGMMS
Dioii;Wn tie Servielm de Niiios
DE CUIDADO DEL PA
fimem del menor A:
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Fedw de nadmiento del rnenur.
Fecha: (0
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Les+oiicit6 ala Ofidna de Rcubicaci6n de Refttgiados (Office of Refugce Resettlement, ORR) paftnt uas aun ntrw
extranjero no amm4miHado en el cuidado y In custodia del gobierno federal conforme al acuerdo extrajudimat
estipalado Flores v. Reno.ndmmo 85-4544-RJK (Pic) (C-D.Cal-17 de ewro de 1997), secci6a 462. del Homeland
Secu& * Act de MM y In. secci6a 235 del William Wilbmbree Trafficking Victims Protection Reauborization Act de
2008. Si se apm eba la solicited de paRxtcinio, redbkfi un fannulario de Verijfm ddn de liberaci6n de ORR y se
celebrari on acumdo do custoifia can el gobicma federal en el coal acepta cungWr can las siguiemtes disposiciones
mme6tta5 e1 menm estd en sn coidado:
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Propocciomw et bicmestmrmental y Hake del menor, quo urlaye; entre otr o% aliurentas, refuM vesfimeuta,
educacidn, atenci6a m6dica y duns servirios segdn sea necesado.
•
Si no es el tutus Legal ai el padre u lamadre dd mmm, hags Ins mejotes es£oerzos pot estabkccrima cumxha
legal con el tribunal Local deu Uo de un tiemmpo razonable
•
Asistir aim prvgrama de ocitataddn legal propomiew do pat el Departamento de Insficia (Depaatment of
Inifim DOJ), o prograura de oricntacifm IMd pars custndios (patt+oCmWores) de la Oficin$ Ejocutiva pars la.
Ravisiidn de la lnmigtacidu (Executive Office for immigration Review, EOIR), si est i disponibIe en e1 Iagar
dondensik-
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Segfm ddnde esW pendieate W caso de inmigracibn del menor, noftfi= Al. Trial de Inmigtaeibn o al
Tribogal de Ape3acinnes de Inmigraeion local en un parfD& de +®co (5) dies de todo camhio de Iittxcidn o
ndomm de bd6fano del menar, ttsandn d fro de tambdo do direcaifo de mtrtmjervs (forma
EOIR 33). Adcamds, si es necesario, presenlaz rma peticiiut de can*io de competencia tarritorial a marafee del
moor La pedci6n de Cirinbio de competencia terdtoeAdebe contenwinfom ud6u, especificada pot el
Trial de Inmigtacm5w Tenga en cuenta qne la petici6n de cambia de pia oemtoaalpacdc requcaa
la ayuda de tm abogado. Para obtener asesorami=u sabre la "peticidn de cambia de competenda berritotial'',
consaUe el Mwaal de pEk:dm drl Txibuaal de Inmigrid6n en M12:// Lusn.-_ov/eOH9zL. Pam oboe=
informaci6n, sobre cases de Ott, comuniquese con el sdslema de inibirmacidn de cases de b unigraci6n
de EIM Haumudo al I-M-8984184 Visite el sitio web de EOIR pm obtener informaci6n. dal en_
bite: /i~v~i
= ev.justic c.^ot~/cnirlfnrmsi is t.lr t n1_
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NoMmar al DepartatmWO de 5eguritiad del Territoria National ant of Home] Sectmty, DHS) o
a Serviaiaa dc-Quiladmila a Imnigmici6a de Ios Estados Unidos (U.S. Citizenship and Immigtatitm Services)
*
en un perfado de d"rea (I0) dfas de todo cambia de dh=d6n, ptesentando laTadetn do Cambio do Dir=d&
de F-x ft m jero (AR-11) o de manta eIectr6aica. en b t t D:// 1. m sa.-ovlAe51bIP.
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Asegumb prescom del umm-en t odas Ivs procedimientos futmos ante DUS a Imnigraciduy Segm%W de
Adonnas (Imiaugration and CustSnms 1. AM"ment, ICE) y el Departamuato de Josh x (Dgwtment of Justice,
DOJ) a EOIA.Para obtimer infounacidn sabre cases de inmigmci6n, comunfipiese con el sist3cma de
ii5 de casos de FsOIR Ilamando aL• I-8tlt)-898 7180.
info
Aw4 mr que el mmw se presimitc auto ICE para la expuhu6n do Ins Estados Unidos ai un j= de
kmgmi6n cmift mm ouku de a gmW6n o um mim de Salida voh mbria. Se asigna aI mrmoc un oficial de
de=iacidn pars Ins promdW=h= de expdm
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Ber. 0#r34~Ot2
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Faot ReSoVicatke Appfits a, Hev. MM6
13.
de las ocoparser de su boor sufte de al&= estfermdad grave y contaginsa (p. e)., TB,SIDA, bepaWk)? Si
fnesa, pow tom, ap%pdw.
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14(a). ZUated o algano, de los ocvpantes de sn bar ban sKlo aew"w o condenades par un debto (que no sea una
iutraecWu meow de moo, p. ej, velorldad e>cedva, multa por mgt
)?
ONO []Si
14(b)- gUsted a a%ma persona en sa hozar ban We lnoestigados purr abuse Wca, swual, desaMo o abandema de un
e
1lWA"?
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Si"
Si osted Mpoud 6 " a cnalgakra de Ins preguntas 14 (a) a 14ft sh vase adjunrar una Nsta a este formelario con In
i I fr nBMd6M Para Caft cargetoundena:
(X) Nec bre de bt persaoi hwahm radar (2) hqW y fecha dd inciftnte; (3) descdpeWn del 3ncidente;
(4) ResdocMa sob m el ioaidente (p. ej_, dese~6n de cargiss, nmltado, enme lade, perbadn de preeba); (5) Copia
del(dc los) rq*Ws) jufficiWes), r fttro(s) pobcW(es), yto regWtx+ S) de la agenda de mNkio sodW gabwr mr ntal
rebdowkWs) cm Alm) mss)
15. Si exishese in pfd qoe u5trd deba salir de km Estados Unidas, o sex incapaa de *Wdar al menor, Zen
Superviarfa A Rumor en Sa ansencm?:
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do ! } j cr
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Dedaro y ofirwo bajo pens de perjmia que In idormad6n cuntcida en esta solicited es verdadera y preeisa,setgom
mi led saber y enbeader. Day fe de rue funks les doeum mAw qm presstito o lass oopias de dichos +docuneetos a dfin
$bmes de emu: y de fry.
Day fe ademAs qae me atesdr6 a las hm rucc loees coutenidas en d Acuerdo del Pahvebwd'or sabre ed Caidado. velare
por el bier tided y ment a1 del mcnor. Tambi(m cumptir6 con ias kyes de mi estado respec o, del cadrlatlo de este
menor, )a qme brd a la bacr4ci6n del nor ea la escudo, In previs 6a de atenci6ya mica cuando srs necasaria, la
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proteceii6n del m+wor corrtra el abuse, d+escnddo y abandow,y cealgmer otro requidto no conteen ei presence.
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Onke of Rdlbw Resettlement
U.S. Depmtned of Han And Hmasn Services
FumRy Rmdficafim Application.Rev. Oil3,VW16
OFICINA DE REUBICACI45N DE REFUGIADOS
Divisi6n de servidos pare niiios
SOLICITUD DE REUNMCACI$N FAMILIAR
1. Nombre del rnenur:
2. Su relad6n con el menor:
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3. Su nombre We rested):
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6. Su femha de nachniento (de usted).
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a fag:
7. Nfimero(s) de teNrono donde nos Podemos com uicar
con usted:
idirin usted p el mennr:
9. El dam
10. ZQu6 idlemas hahla?:
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a e ste iormulatio)
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(p. ej., madm padre)
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OFICINA DE REDMICACI$N DE REFUGIADOS
Divu"s de ServicIos }tare NIfiw
MTA DE VMWAC16N FAt4IILI4R PARR PATROMADORES
Fornanlauias arse deben6n ser leados v raantenk]" es so
Doder
0 He compkWo y fi
la Aubo4b.%Kmpara )a
Divtdpci6a & Iufuralaci&
® He Iddo In Carta inhoductaria del Paquft pia la
Rctrnificaci6a Familiar
0 He complebdo y finuado la Solidod pare is remizficacidu
familiar,
0 He ieido el Arumdo, de Cuidado del Pah'vcin~
*He leido la lasts de Venficaci6n Para PaWxinadar'es
He 7.eido el Prvgrama General de Orieniai6n Legal para
CVstodios
M He leido e1 Manuol para el Pa:hucinsdor
O He leido las bstnicciones pare is tvma de imeilas digitales
par si tienen quo ser souefida&
S Carta de Designaci6n del Coidado de Ern Menor pars el
pahucinador que NO es uno de Rn padres del rueuat ni sn tntnr
legal_
Par favurpu4Kw iooe una copia de los siguicubes docmon mfm clue figman a conhunwi6n.Pur favor tome en c-aenta.clue Canto ]a
6n oic Refugmdos (Office of lte[age Resctdcment;ORR) coma la Dwomdu de Servicios de Mm no
Oficma de
oFGlrrldreWs Se vmm lam) pueden xe&am su solieitud coma pakeumadur at f:tlia caWgcaae demCn,M de
soficiWa o si esa n isms esd Meta o no es c =ecta. En el caso de qac no pueda grov=1os documentos
la
+ lurAo, con la Sc hcrtud de Reundd't d6n Familiar. ca la Sue indique cue fipo de docuncutacifin de
una czp
vquc6iosl
respaldo no pun& pm=bwy la raz6n Tenga ea —nta.qne su r-Vhcaci+bn sahte caalgtf= docamcalt std6n faltante goedarfi suj eta a la
aceutwMA do ORRIDCS_
L
Wadw des#IdaQlidat~
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icadm trailida par el estada
a. Iiumda de aoadaca0 bu*M de Andr
b boca~+saso de ideotidad (— hM) de su pats de ofigea (p- cj, calula)
a pampoate
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thmeopkdomcad deumdudedo
Z Preebs de to ideatidad dd a+asu:
Una c pik dd ccnifka& dc nadmieWo ddmamr
a
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AUTORMC16N PARA LA DWULGAC16N DE DWORMAQbN
Ira ate 09ft MdMWWs6a, h&qV ftww&yfi&hda cam haft
Aufad= a cualquier investi V4m, ageu$ cgvdal, er Vk ado, coutratista, crsionario u otm representantc debidamente wtuaedo qtw
aabaje to nowbw de is Ofidna de Rat de Ref i&dos (Office of Refugee Reseukmeatt) ague esas llcvando a can In irrvestigadon
de mw anu=dexttes y la eevabzad6n de paaacinio a abuma h4mmad6n a fm de evahzar um capacidad gars brindade e1 ddAdo cuidado y
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penal federal.
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canto verbalamte coma par esaim4 k hrma i6n aretca de todo hilt aw
pmfesiorralm de la salami mental a onas reftwenes, a di vWW,
delictivn,cmgos a dudes sabre abtrso y descaido iafxrl,stmad6n miga t na passda y pme9eate, problemas de salad mRatral, abaso de
sustaucsW viglenraa damiatmo enalgmezotra i birmaai6a psiaasociai iecopilada aeema de mi gerrsana_
AukR im a Jos rjm&os de Im ie&ros y femmes de la mformacidn sobm mi persona,a divulger tal infatmad ante la solicited del
innrestigadfll~ ageOe eapwl,tea,cWhafisbk, aesionauo u otro representame debidamente aamdiu& de is Of cica. de Pwubica66n
de Reftrgiados.
Endw& spas la kdoung6da divulgadapor cualgtuerr casuAto de mis regotms y otms fuentm de Ia infomw6n a= de mi. p=wM es
Para aso a$aalfior prams del gobiame, da ks EE- UU, ms empleados, cesionauos, cants y otro Personal dclegado Para krs fires
expresailos mds =93a y que puede su revda& par el gobiers?o de Im lam. W_ solamente ea la forma autorirada par la ley.
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empleados, terra mr counatiMs y de dos. Ta wbMn enoando sae la Oficiaa do Renbiracirin de Refugmdos guede cxmnpadir esta
inform ac:i6n can Jos empkados y cooatratistas de otras agendas fedetales.
Pay el Presrrdie rmmacso a makfaki redamo o dw=bo en vuaxl de Los leyes de km EsWAos Unidus contra e] pbiaw federal, sirs
empleados,cc4oaarios,cntzatistas o delegados poruw legalrnente cualgnier informaa6n recopilada dnranm Ia bdsgaeda de mi hktm-hd
i6n rcbtiva. al biter fi&ntil, w acidn migmtona pasada o p ==te, cuaRpAff informaci6a oontemda ea mi solicimd
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depaftoemmycaladocamagaczdadercqmldoylamgonuact&rccopda&dcaudquaff aaa foente, en forma. oral o es mtk relarionada
arm esu soliciMd de paftecWo. Pea• d pre=te =mmdo a tuda demanda o acuecdo paevio con wdquier agenda iiederal estatal, local o
privada T= padkm imp uWc al debtgado oficial de la Ofi,cina de Rcubicaei& de Refugiados obtenca la mfonmotba soliddada.
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OBlmarPOhgee Rmerdement
5poaser Case Agreement,Rev. tkY30t=2
OFICINA DE REUBICACitSN DE REFUGLADOS
DiWsidta de Servirios de Nlnas
ACUERDO DE CUIDADO DEL
uanera del menor A:
echa de nacimiento del
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Fecha: UC' )r, 71P meno:,:--:E*
Le solic O a la Oficina de Reubicacion de Refugiados (Office of Refugee Resettlement,ORR) patrocirtar a un ni iio
extranjem no acompanado en el cuidado y la cusuxlia del gobierno federal confonne al acuerdo extrajudicial
estipulado Mores v. Reno. ndmem 85-4544-RJK (Px) (C.D. CaL,17 de enero de 1997), seccidn 462 del Homeland
Security Act de 2002 y la secci6n 235 del William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Pratection Reauthorization Act de
2008.Si so apmeba la solicitud de patmcinio, recibira un formulario do Verrficaci6n de liberaci6n de ORR y se
celebrariun atnerdo de cusoodia con el gobierno federal err el coal acepta cutnplir con las siguientes dispositions
mientras el menor este an su cuidado:
s Progorciousr el bienestar mental y fisico del menor,quo incluye,entre obit, alimentos, refugio,vestimenta,
educaci6n,atenci6n medica y elms servicios segdn sea necesario_
s Si no es el tutor legal ni el padre o la madre del menor, hags los rnejores esfverzos par establecer una custodia
legal con el tribunal local dentro de un fienrpo razonable.
•
As'iudr a un programa de orientaci6n Legal pmporcionado por el Depart amento de Justicia (Department of
Justice,DOI), o programs de orientaci6n legal Para custodies (patrocinadores) de la Oficina Ejecutiva Para la
Revisi6n de la Imnigraci6a W
Accutive Office for luunigration Review, EOIR), si esta disponible en el lugar
don& reside.
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Segun d6nde est6 pendicptle ei caso de inmigra66n del menor,nortificar al Tribunal de Inmigcaei6n o al
Tribunal de Apelaciones de Inmigraci6n local en un periodo de cineo (5) dins de todo cambio de direction o
mimem de teWono del menor, usando eI formulario de cambio de direceion de exbmjeros (formulario
EOIR 33). Aden*,si es necesario,preseritar una petici6n de cambio de competencia territorial a nombre del
menor. La petici6n de cambio de competencia territorial debe contener informaci613 especificada por el
Tribunal de Inmigraci6n.Tenga on cuenta quo la petition de cambic de competencia territorial puede requerir
la ayuda de un abogado.Para obtener asesoramiento sobre la "petici6n de cambio de competencia territoriar,
consulte el Manual de practica del Tribunal de Inmigraci6n en lm wl,' t , ul a. a k ()t 19v t.. Para obtener
informacift sobre cases de inmigraci6n, comuniquese con el sistema de information de casos de inmigraci6n
de EOIR llamando al 1-EWS98 7180.Visite el sitio web de EOM pare obtencr information adkional en:
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Notificar al Departamento de Seguridad del Territorio National (Department of Homeland Security, DHS) o
a Servicios de Ciudadania a hurugrad6n de los Estados Unidos (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)
on un pedodo de diez ( dfas de todo cambio de direction, presentando la Tm jeta de Cambio de Direcci6n
10)
de Extranjera (AR 11) o de manera electr6nica on I it I p:// 1 . c ,,,. _ m M0 N [ P,
Asegurar la prmencia del menor en todos los procedimimtos futuros ante DHS o lnm graci6n y Seguridad de
Aduanas (Immigration and Qztoms Enforcement,ICE) y el Departamento de Justicia ('Department of Justice,
DOJ) o EOIR _ Para obtener information sobre cases de inmigraci6n,comunfquese con el sistema de
informacion de casos de EOIR Ilamando ah 1-800-848-7180.
Asegarar clue el menor se presente ante ICE pars la expulsion de los Estados Unidos si un juez de
inmigrad6u eunte, Ina order de expulsi6n o una orden do salida voluntaria Se asigna al menor un o$cial de
deportation parn los procedirrrientos de expulsi6n.
5poavor Care Agreement,Rev. t141MM12
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O$ke of Rcf'agee Resettlement
Family RetwI radon Ap phullm Rev. OV2SM16
U.S. Department of Health and Hmnan Services
DFICINA DE REUBICACION DE REFUGIAUUS
Mid& de servidos para nitnos
SQLICTTUD DE REUNMCACIQN FAMM AR
1. Nombre del men -
Z. Su rdacidn con el menor:
C
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4. Cualquier otro nombre que uAM hays nallizado:
):
3. Su nombre (de
`IWC'SC'O CIP
S. Su pals de migen (de usted):
CY' O 92
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donde nos
os
7. Mnwro(s
con usted:
9. El domicdio donde residir III
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6. Su fecha de mctmiento (de usted):
r
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1diomas habla?:
10.4Qut;
Ct it v-0co
y el menor:
vt
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11.Informacddn de loss ocupantes del hogar. (SI necesita mas espacio,sirvase adjtmtar um lista de los ocupantes del hogar
a este formulario)
Fecho de
Nacknknto
Nombre
/1601- C05
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Reladdn con usted
(e) patrocivador)
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(p- ej-, ma&e, padre)
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12.Wormaddn l"mandera:Sfrvnm expRear como va a mantener finanderamente al menor:
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Family Resutn at m Appunadao, Rev. Olawo16
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U.S. Department of Health and Humwn Services
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Family Reunification Application, Rex 01f2VM16
13. ZAlguno de ios ocupantes de su hogar sufre de alguna enferinedad grave y contagiosa (p. ej., TB, S1DA, hepatitis)? Si asi
fuera, por favor, expliquelo:
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14(a). gUsted o alguno de los ocupantes de su hogar ban sido acusados o condenados por un delito (que no sea una
infraed6n menor de tr6nsito, p. ej., velocidad excesiva, multa por mal estacionamiento)?
® NO u Sf
14(b). ZUsted o algunn persona en su hogar ban sido investigados por abuso flsico, sexual, descuido o abandon de un
menor?
® NO u Si
Si usted responded "Si" a cuslquiera de las preguntas 14 (a) o 14(b), sirvase adjuntar una lists a este formulario con la
siguiente infornmeWn pare cada cargo/condena:
(1) Nombre de la persona involucrada; (2) lugar y fecha del incidente; (3) descripci6n del incidente;
(4) Resoluci6n sohm el incidente (p• ej., desestimaci6n de cargos, multado, encarcelado, periodo de prueba); (5) Copia
del(de los) registro(s) judicial(es), registro(s) policial(es), ylo registro(s) de la agencia de servicio social gubernamental
relacionado(s) con el(los) incidente(s)
15. Si edstiese la posibilidad que usted deba satir de los Estados Unidos, o ser encapaz de cuidar al menor, gquWa
supervisaria al menor en su ausencia?.
t J0" Ca'(Wt ~
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Nombre del posible cuidador adulte: 4Aa f(V4t
Fecha de nad flento del posible cuidador adulto: ~rj
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Informaci6n de contacto (direcci6n y niimero de telef000) del posible cuidador adulto:
Relacl6n con el menor, si hay alguna: T, a V e /; ~CcL Qol 5t ja PaTQ JV (it { + 1 C?
Resum su plan de culdado en caso de que usted tenga que safer de los Estados Unidos o sea incapaz de cuidar al menor:
dco i
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Declaro y afirmo bajo pens de perjurio que la informaci6n contenida en esta solicitud es verdadera y precise, segnn
mi leal saber y entender. Doy fe de que todos los documentos que presento o las copias de dichos documentos est6n
fibres de error y de fraude.
Doy fe ademas que me atendre a [as instructions contenidas en el Acuerdo del Patrocinador sabre el Cuidadv. Velare
per el bienestar fisico y mental del menor. Tambien cumplire con Ins leyes de mi estado respecto del cuidado de este
menor;to que incluye la inscripd6n del menor en la escuela, la provision de atenci6n medics cuando sea necesaria, la
protecei6n del menor contra el abuso, descuido y abandono, y cualquier otro requisito no contenido en el presente.
SU FIRMA:
Family Re+ini6cation Application, Rev. (!1/25/2016
ORR IUCIFRP-39
FECHA:
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O 'USA,
Offim o
U.S. ant of I fealth and ffimwa Serv3se
p ~RnlQnt
Fad Rs+anWea6m Checklist Ibr Sponsors, Rev. 04AMM14
OFIMA DE REUBICACION DE REFUGIADOS
Divisibn de Servicios pare Nifios
LLSTA DE VERE'ACION FAMI LIAR PARA PATROCINADORES
N He cempletado y firmado la Auluazacion para la
Divulgacidu de Inforn=i6n
IN He completado y firniado la Solieitud para la rmni&wion
familiar
Forn odarios aloe debelrbn ser Milos y mantenidos en su
get'
He lefdo la Carta introductoria del Paquete pars la
Reunificacidn familiar
a
He lefdo eI Acuerdo do Cuidado del Pahncinador
® He lefdo la l ista de Verificacion para Patrocinadores
He lefdo el Programs General de Orientacidia Legal Para
Castodios
® He lefdo el Manual para el Patmcinador
He lefdo Ins lnstnlcciones para la toma de huellas digitales
por si denen que ser sometidas.
s Carta de Designaci6n del Cuidado de un Metlor pars el
patrocinador que NO es uno do los padres del menor ni su tutor
legal.
Documentos ulrubatarios
Par favor proporcione una copea de los siguientes docurnentos que figursn a continuation.Par favor tome an cucutit que tanto la
Oficina de Renb:caadn de Refugiados (Office of Re#ngee Resettlement, ORR) Como la Division de Serviraos de Nubs no
Acoupanados (Division of Children's Services,DCS) paeden 1ecllazar su solicitud coma patrocinador A falls cualquier elemento de
"
la infoamaci6n solicitada c si era mtww ester inconVleta o no es correcta. En el caso de que no pueda proveer los documentos
n
regaeridos, adjunte una eaplicad6n. junto con is Sobcitud de Reunificaci6a Familiar, en la que Mque que tips de docameniaciim de
respaldo no puede presentar y la razdn. Tonga en cuenta que su expliead6n sobre cualquier documentation faltante quedara aujeta a la
RAALL
4i41iRM
1.
Prveba de sa Idenfidad:
Una copia de mta idenfificaddn er6dda par el gobierno, tal coma:
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IL 11cencia de coaduir o tmjeta de idaWfieacirm a mWda por el cuado
b. Duumnewa do Wmfidad (con foto) de su paEs de origea (p. ej., cedula)
c.
Y
w
Pasaparte
Una cogia de su onfificado de nacimien6o
2L Prueba de la iden6dad dd meann
. Tuna coca del certificado do uAdmiento del minor
3. P meba de Par+enlewo:
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FnUvgue copies de ccrf rcadoc de naeimimto,de manimonio, regaros jndiciales, regisuns de la tutnoa u oam documentos, a fin der aperrar
'
evidcucia de Is relud bn ffiae usted y el menu
4. Rog6tr- Legaks (si carnrtpaIIde)
Si usted respandio "5a a In pregantas 14(a) y/u 14(b) on In SoIEcift d de Reun jkmcion Familiar, spartc regis uns judiciales,policiales, ylo de toe
mrvicios sodWes gubernamemales relaciaw con el/ las incideule(s).
5. $t usW NO es um de las padres o ci [mnr iegd de We mo=or,par favor pngmdu= de uno de Ins siguimies documsmlos cones comlxubante tle
dvmiciiio. Si umd SI es el padre o el nfiot legal del mo=or,no es nece wio que eo tregue un campmbante de dorWoEo.
a Una eapla de suienta acnW
b_ Una copia del estalo de cuaAa actual de su lMpoteca
a Cowta del propietRde. en la que se eon5me su domicilio.
d_ Una oopade sa ccnrspoftda, pte(e ubkmente um factma de serviLio Ffibbco ditWda a ustsd,corrtspondiendo a los Wilmot dos mews.
Family Retmdncatlon AppHcaffon Cbechrld far Sponsors,Rev_ OW44014
ORR UACIFRPc3Aa
OFICWA DE REUBICACION DE REMGIADOS
Divisi6n de Servicios de Niitos
AUTORUAC16N PARA LA Dn ULGACION DR INFORMAC16N
INFORMACI N
RIDAZ&RA LA IlVYESTIGACION DE AN'TECED
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Ciudad
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Citulad (condado)
poslsd
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Domicillo
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SASTA:
MWADANJA DE LOS FMADOS UNWOS Si el patrocinador es ciudadano estadounidense,pem no m66 en los EE. UU., brinde infonnaci6n acerca de
una o mis de las sigukntcs pruebas de ciudadanfa.
CertWicade de naboAlimacidn
Certirkado de ceudadania UD6ade st errriti 6 et certi
Ciudad
Estado
Ciudad
Tribunal
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Ndnrero de certificado
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to de Estado:Inioraee del uadnitado en el
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Medl)fa /Ano
Indique la fecha en que se pmpaM
.
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AUTOPJZACION PARR IA DIVULGACION DE INFORMACION
Lea cuiAdwamenk esta mutorezci6n, ftaego f rnnela y f6chela con tints negra.
Autorizo a cualquier investigador,agente especial,emplmdo, contratista, cesionado u otro mpresentante debidarnente autarizado que
trabaje ennombre de la Oficina de Reubicad6n de Refugiados (Office of Refugee Resettlement) que est6 Ilevando a cabo la investigaci6n
de mis antecedentes y la evaluaci6n de patrocimo a obtener infarmaci6n a fin de evaluar mi capaddad pare brindarle el debido cuidado y
lugar a un mmor y para pmveerle los servicios posteriores a su liberad6n, selon sea accasado.Autorizo a cualquier agenda de justicia
penal federal,estatal o local;agenda pats el bienestar infantil federal, estatal, local o privada;agencia federal de inroigtaci6n a cualquier
otm fuente de infonnwi6n.tal Como escoelas, tribunales, pmveedores de tratamiento,funcionarios de libenad candicionallhajo palabra,
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delictivo, cargos o dudae sobre abuso y descuido infantil, situacion migratoria pasada y presents, problemm de salud mental, abusa de
sustancias,violencia domestica o cnalquier otra informaci6n psicosocial recopilada acenca de mi persona.
ted
Autarizo alas custo&os de los regist m y fuentes de ]a informaci6n sobre mi persona, a divulgar tad informi6dn ante la solici del
investigador, agente especial, empleado,coniratista,cesionado u otro representante debidamente ac►editado de la Oficina de Reubicaci6n
de Refugiados.
Entiendo que to informaci6a divulgada. pot cualquier custodio do mis registros y otras fuentes de la informaci6n acerea de mi persona es
para use oficial por patio del gobierno de los EE. W_, ws empleados, cesionarios, conuutistas y otro personal delegado pars los fines
expresades m.4s ardba y que puede ser tevelada per el gobieruo de los BE.W, sol:wewe on la forma autvrizada poor la ley.
Entiende que esta informad6n se canvertird en propiedad de la Oficina de Reubicad6n de Refugiados y que puede ser revisada por sus
cwpleadas, cesionarias. coy' tome as y delegados.Tambiea entieuda que la Oficina de Reabicaci6n de Refugiados puede compattir esta
informaci6n can los empleados y contratistas de otras agencias federales.
Por el presentee reatww to a coalquier reciamo o derecho en virtud de las ]eyes de los Finadus Unidos contra el gobiersw federal, sus
empleados,cesiomarios, contratistas o delegados por usar legalmente eunlgaier info maci6n recopilada durante la brisqueda de mi bistorial
delictivo,informacift reladva al bionestar infantil, situacida migratoria pagoda o presents, cualqui,er inforaumi6a centenida en mi solicited
de parr wWo y ea la documentad6n de respaldo y la informad6n mcopilada de cualquier otra fuento, en forma oral o escrita, relacionada
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pnvada que pudiem impedide al dcdegado oficial de la Ofidna de Rcubicad6n de Refugiados obtener la infurmad6n solicitada.
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EXHIBIT 5
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Administracion para los ninos y la familia
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Qficina de Reubicacion de Refu9iados
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Solicitud de reunificacion familiar
Como completar esta solicitud
IMPORTANTE: Si no puede completar estos pasos en at lapso de siete (7) dies, inf6rmeselo at Administrador
de su caso.
Paso 1
Si todavia no to ha hscho, dabs firmar y devolver de inmediato at Administrador de su caso at
formulario de Autorizacion de divul9ad6n de InformaciGn y Una copta de su identificacion (ID) con
foto emitida por of gobierno.
Si se le pide que presente huelias dacfilares, el Administrador de su caso to ayudarA a programar
Una city pare presentar sus huellas dactilares an at tapso de tres (3) digs. Comuniquese con el
Administrador de su caso si tiene preguntas.
Paso 2
Lea el Manual del patrocinador y el Acuerdo del patrocinador sobre el cuidado que incluye otra
informad6n importants que debe saber alcerca de patrocinar a un menor an nuestro programa.
Paso 3
Complete y firms, to $olicitud de reunificacion familiar (p6ginas 3 a 7 de este paquete)_
Paso 4
Retina los documentos necesarios que se enumeran en la secacion Documentos probatorios
(p6ginas 8 a 10 de este paquete).
Paso 5
Presente la Solicitud de reunificacicn familiar (esta solicited ) y los documentos pmbatorios
necesarios al Administrador de su caso.
ORR UAcIFRP-3s [Rev. 05114/2018]
POgina 1 de 10
OMEI 0970-0278 [vAlida hasty el 10n1=18]
ON DE TRAw Es DE 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13). Se estima que el pmmedio de las declaraciones pubNeas obligatodes de esta
Le LEY DE SJMPURCACI
solleitud de infommeibn as do 30 mintmos por respuesta, ItWuido at tiampo para reviser Us instruodenes,n:edectar y mantener Jos dates neeeserius y reviser
la solicitud de informaoidn. Una agenda no puede didglr ni patrodner y no as necesario que une persona responda a una reropilacidn de informad6n, a
menos clue muestm un n6rnem de control v6iido y actual de la Ofidna de Administr 6n y Presupuesto (Office of Management and Budget, OMB) Consulte
el aviso de privsoidad adjuntDAXclaracidn de In Ley de Privaddad pera oblener un anelisis aceRm de (1) la autoridad de la sdicihrd de inf nneeft y acerra
de si la divulgaci6n es oblgatoda. o voluntaria, (2) tos prop6sitos prineipales para Jos cuales la inrprmael6n estd didgide, (3) otreos uses rutararioa para Jos
eueles se puede user la inkmnaci6n y (4) Jos efectos, ai Jos hay, de no brindertoda o parte de la informacidn solicilads.
Solicitud de reunifrcacion familiar
Oficina de Reublead6n de R,efugiados
Pregunfas frecuentes
GPuedo patrocinar a mi hijo si no tango documentos?
Si. La Oficina de Reubicacion de Refuglados (ORR, Office of Refugee Resettlement)tDivisl6n de Servicios de
Ninos No-Acompanados (Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services, DUCS) primers enWagar un nino a
su madre, padre o tutor legar sin importar la situaci6n migratoria.
Jima un costo patrocinar a un nlfio?
No. No se exigen cargos para completer los requisitos para patrocinar a un nino. Sin embargo, usted puede
ser respvnsable de los costos de viaje y comp acompatiante del nino.
,&Nocosito un abogado para patrocinar a un nifio?
No. No necesita un abogado para completar los requisitos para patrocinar a un nino. Si nec esita ayuda para
completer los requisitos, el Administrador de su caso to puede ayudar. Si busca atenci6n adicional, tenga an
cuenta quo no hay ningun cargo por completer los requisitos para patrocinar a un nino.
,LPor qu6 tango que prosentar mis huellas dactilares?
ORRIDUCS requiere investigaciones de antecedentes pars garantizar la seguridad del nino. Si se le pide
quo presents huellas dactilares, el Administrador de su caso to ayudara a programar una city para presenter
sus huellas dactilares en el lapso de tres (3) dias. Comuniquese con el Administrador de su caso si tiene
preguntas.
4Qu6 informacil6n debo proporcionar?
Debe completer la Solicitud de reunificacion familiar y los documentos probatorios. Tambien debe responder
preguntas del Administrador de su caso sobre su hogar, la relacion con el nino y su capacidad de cuidar el
bienestar fisicn y mental del nino. Debe proporcionar pnteba de su identidad.
zCuAndo tango quo antregarle astos doe mantof; al Administrador de ml caso?
Debe presentar to da la informaci6n necesaria en el lapso de siete (7) dias o antes, si es posible. Cuanto antes
presents todos los documentos necesarios, con mas rapidlez ORR tomarA una decision sobre la liberaci6n del
nino pars su custodia. ORR le informara de inmediato la decision sobre la Iiberacl6n del nino para su custodia
o le notificara si se necesita una evaivaelon o informacion adicional.
ORR UACIFRP-3s [Rev. 05114120181
P3gina 2 de 10
Adm4.Vstrador do. su caso,
oMB 097UM CvADda hasty el 10t31120181
lea LEY DE SIMPuncActN DE TRAMITES DE 1995 (Ruh. L 104-13), se eanta quo el promedio de las dedaraciones p0rxas obiigetories de esta
soticitud de hftmwcibn as de 30 Wnutos por msptresta, induido el tiempo pars reviser Ws lnstrucclones, rocotectar y mantener Ios dams necesarios y
mbar la sorWWd de infonnasi m Una agends no puede dirigir ni patrocinar y no es necesario quo una persona responda a una re coplkod n de
informad6n, a menos que muestre un ntmiem de control WHdo y achiai de la Oficina de Adminrslrad6n y Prmupuesto (Office of Management and Budget,
OMB) Consults el aviso de prKnddad adjunto Dedarsribn de la Ley de Priwdadad pare obtener un anblisis werca de (1) la autorirlod de la sol'Ic'dud de
informad6n y acema de si is divulged6n es odigatnria o voluntada, (2) tos prnp6sitos prMdpales pars los wales la informacidn esiA didgida, (3) ob uses
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Solicitud de reunificacion bmiliar
Oficina de Reubicacicin de Refugiados
Acerca de usted, el patrocinador y el (los) menor(es)
1) Nombre(s) del (de los) menor(es)
Enumere los nombres de todos los ninos que solicita
2) Su relacl6n con el (los) menor(es)
p. ej. madre, tio, amigo de la familia
3) Su nombre
4) Cualquier otro nombre que usted haya
util'izado
Enumere otros nombres que haya usado,
coma su nombre antes de casarse o sus
apellidos matemos (separelos con comas)
5) Su pals de origen (de usted)
D6nde nacio
6) Su fecha de nacimiento (de usted)
P, ej., 12131/1979
7) Wmeros de telefono
p. ej., 210-555-1234
TeWono principal
Tel6fono secundado 1
8) Su direcci6n de correo electr6nico o
ndmero de fax
9) Idioma(s) que habla
Pr#gfna 3 de 14
ORR UACIPRF-3s (Rev. 05114120181
.
LIMB 0704278 IvAlida hasty el 10131/20181
La LEY De simpunc-Aeft DE TRAmmis DE 7995 (Pub. L 104-13). 8e esllme que el pmmedlo de las dedaradones publioas obligabrrias de esta
sol'idfud do irrfarmad6n es de 30 minutos par respuesta, induido el Uempo pare reviser las instrucciones, rewlectar y mantener los datos necesarfos y
revisor to saWtud de infomrad6n. Ure agencia no puede dirigir ni poUodnary no as neemelo que uns parswa responda a one recoolad8n de
infomtad6n, a men as que muestre un ndimem de contred vdlido y actual de Is OBcina de Administracl6n y Presupuesto (Office of Management and Budget,
OMB) Cansutte el aviso de privacidad adjunfaMeclaracidn de Is Ley de Prtvaddad pare obtener un anitlisis acerca de (1) is autorided de Is soticitud de
informad6n y ace= de si Is dWgacihn es oN peWo o volurdaria, (2) fos prop6sitos prirmipates pare fos cuales la Wormecl6n ests dirigida, (3) ours usos
Solicitud de reunificaclon familiar
Qficina de Reublcad6n de Refugiados
1,DOinde viviran usted y el (los) menor(es)?
1 0) Domicilio
Domicilio
(+ numero de departamento, si
corresponds)
Ciudad
Estado u Codigo postal
11) zQuien wive actualmente en este domicilio?
umbre eel miembro del hogar
(EJEMPLO) Miguel Perez
ORR UACIFRP-3s 1Rev. 05114120181
OMA 0070.6271; jvAlida hash el 18131120181
Fecha de
Relaci6n can
usted (el
nacimlento patrocinador)
12131/1985
Hermano
Administrador de su cpso.
Relaci6n con el
nwnor
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Pagina 4 de 10
ur-1CAt3ON DE 1RAMf Fs DE 1905 (pub, L 144-13). Se estima quo ei promedlo de las dedaradones pabiicas obdgetcdas de esta
solicitud do informad6n at; do 30 minubas por respuasta. Inclufdo al tlempo pare. rater We instruedonas, roecotectar y mantener fos dates necesarios y
reviser is sef9dtud da informad6n. Una agenda no puada dIdgir ni patmeinary no as neceaario qua una persona responda a una reeapiisddn de
infortnaddn, a menos quo rrwmnUo un nO mem de control vAiido y actual de la Ofidna de AdminlsUad6n y Presupuesto (Office of Management and Budget,
OMB) Consufte el aviso de privadded edjunkMedar don de la Lay de Pri► addad pare. obtener un arAftls aroma de (1) la auforidad do la soticitud do
in1ormaci6n y acerca de si la divutgaci6n as o tigaWria o voluntaria, (2) los prop6situs pdndpates pare los males Is informad6n estA dirigida, (3) ohm uses
La LEY DE BtNI
Solicitud de reunificacion familiar
Qficina de Reubicacion de Refugiados-
Adulto que se hard cargo del (de los) menor(es) si usted no
puede hacerlo
En el caso de que tenga que irse de los Estados Unidos o no pueda hacerse cargo del (de los) menor(es),
jqulen se harAi cargo del (de los) menor(es)?
12a) Nombre del posible encargado adulto
12b) Fecha de nacimiento del posible encargado
adulto
12c) Informaci6n de contacto del posible encargado
adulto
Numero de
telefono
Domicilio
(+ n6mero de departamento, si
corresponde)
Estado
Ciudad
1-1 C6digo postal
12d) &CuAl es su relacibn con el (los) menor(es)?
(abuelo, t(a, hermano mayor de 111 anos, etc.}
12e) 1,Cual es su relacien con usted, el patrocinador?
12t) LComo se culdard al (a Jos) menor(es) on el caso de que usted se tenga que it de los Estados Unidos
o no pueda cuidarlo(s)?
ORR UACIFRP-38 t
ev. 05114120181
OMB 0070.0278 lvdilda hasta el 10131120181
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La LEY DE SIMPUFICAC16N DE TRAMITES DE 1995 (Pub. L.104-13). Se estima que el pmmedio de lea dWareciones publicas ob9getorias de es3a
empo
solicitud de in!Nmac" es de 30 minutos por respuestD, induldo el dem pars reviser ias instrucciones, recolectar y montener kx dalos necesarios y
reviser is soliatud de Informaoi6n. Una agenda no puede didgir M palroclner y no es necesario que una persona responda a um nx op4 i6n de
informad6n, a menos que muestm un numero de ountrot v9do y oaaal de to Mina de AdminWbmeMn y Presupuesto (Office of Management and Budget,
OMB) Consutte at aviso de privaddad adjunta/Dm* aci6n de Is Leyde Privaddad pars obtenerun ar0l is seems de (1) Is aubwidad de la sdidwd de
a,
informacidn y acema de si is divukaddn es oblostoria o volunlaria (2) los prop6sitos principales pare los cuaies is infanmac& esld dirigida, (3) otros usos
Solicitud de reunificado' n familiar
Oficina de Reubicaci6n de Refugiados
Informacion economica
13) iCrs3mo mantendid eon6miicamente al (a los) menor(es)?
Incluya todas [as fuentes y los montos de su ingreso (por ejemplo, cu6nto le pagan por semana) y
exp[ique cualquier apoyo ecandmico qua reciba de otros que to ayudaran a mantener econ6micamente al
(a Jos) menor(es).
lnformacivn medica
14a)ZAlguno de los ocupantes de su hogar suite do aiguna enfemmedad grave y contagiosa (tuberculosis
[TB], sindrome de inmunoddeficiencia adquirida [SIDA], hapatitis, etc.)? Si asi fuera, expliquelo:
14b) jSabe de aiguna afeeci6n medica que el (los) menor(es) pueda(n) tenor (discapacidades, alergias,
enfQ111 adades, etc.)? SI asi fuera, expliquelo;
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Le LEY DE SIMPLIfic=6N DE TRAMffES DE 1995 (Pub. L 104-13). Se estime que el pn7mad+o de bas declaredanes pdts6c:as obUgatorias de esla
solicited de kftn adbn es de 30 m6nu6os por mspuesta, induldo el tiempo perm reviser {as insMicdenes, reoofectar y mantener los datos neceserim y
reviser Is aolidtW de infomaei5n, Una egemia no pueds dfrigir ni patrodnar y no es necmado que una persona responda a una recapiladdn de
infonwid6n, a menos que muestm un rulmem de control AlIdo y actual de la Ofidna de Administrad6n y Presupuesto (Office of Management and Budget,
OMB) Conuft of aviso de privacidad adiunto/DWaradbn de la Ley de Prtvacided pera obtanor un sralsis acerca de (1)1a autoridad de la solidtud de
infg►maci4n y owma do pi is divulgad6n es gblfgatorie o vduntaria, M los propdeftne princfpales pain los cuales Is informacOn esla didglds, (3) allm usos
Solicitud de reunificaci©n familiar
Oficina de ReubicaddIn de Refugiados
Antecedentes penales
Si responds •Si" a cualquiera de estas preguntas, tends qua brindar mas informaci6n. Consults la pi#gtna de
Documentos probatodos (pagina g dp este paquete) pare obtener m6s informacahn.
15a) &Usted o alguno do los ocupantes de su hogar han silo acusados o candenados por un dellto
alguna vet (que no sea una infraccl6n manor de to insito, p, ej., velocidad excesiva, multa por mal
estaclonamiento, etc.)?
OSi
0N
151b) LUsted o alguna persona an su hogar han silo investigados por abuso fisico, sexual, desculdo o
abandono de un manor alguna vex?
o St 0 No
Firma y fecha de la solicitud
Declaro y afirmo bajo pens de pedurio qua le informacion contenida en esta solicitud es verdadera y
precisa, ssegOn mi leal saber y entender.
Doy fe de que todos los documentos que presento o las copias de dichos documentos estan libres de error
y de frauds.
Doy fe ademas que me atendre a las instrucciones contenidas en at Acuerdo del Paf xinador sobre el
Cuidado.
Velars por el bienestar fisico y mental del (de los) menor(es). Tambidn cumplire con las ieyes de mi estado
respecto del culdado de ante manor, to que incluye:
• la inscripci6n de (de los) menor(es) en la escuela;
la provision de atencion medica cuando sea necesaria;
• la prvtecd6n del (de los) menor(es) contra el abuso, descuido y abandono;
* y cualqui+er otro requisito no contenido an el presente.
SU FIRMA
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La LEY DE SIMPURCACION DE TRQm7E5 DE 1595 (Pub. L 10413). Se esWna que el pmmedio de las docianadones publ = obligatortas de esta
solldtud de h forrnaeidn es de 30 minutes por respuesta, Inctuldo el tlempo pare revisor las lnstruedones, recolectar y mantener los Batas rrecesmdos y
reviser to soiidtud de infwmacidn. Una agencia no puede ditiglr nI patrodnar y no as necesa6o que una persona rosponda a una recopi19d6n de
inforrnad6n, a menos que muestm un numem de control vAlido y actual de to Ofidna de AdinMrtraddn y Presupuesto (Office of Management and Budget,
OMB) Consulte el aviso de pttvacidad adjuntotDeelamcidn de to Lay de Privacidad pare obtener un anAllsis acema de (1) to autoridad de In sottcifud de
Informad6n y acerea cis si In d"nro} d6n as obligaWda o Wontada, (2) los ptop6sRos prindpates pare los cuales In infarmad6n esta dirkkfa, (3) ohm usos
Solicitud de reunificacion familiar
4fcina de Reubicacion de Refugiados
Documentos probatorios
S(rvase proveer una copia de los siguientes documentos clue flguran a continuacibn. Si no puede proporclonar
los documentos clue solicitamos. explique el motivo, Tonga en cuenta que podemos rechazar su solicitud si
falta cualquler elemento de la informaclon solicitada, si esta se encuentra incompleta o no es correcta.
1) Prueba de identidad de usted y de los miembros del hogar
Una copia de una identilicacibn emitida por el gobiemo. Puede presenter una opcion de la Lista A o dos o
mss opciones de la Lista B. Si presents opciones de la Lista B, al menos una opcidn debe contar con una
fotografta. Se aceptan documentos vencidos.
Lista A
Pasaporte de los EE. UU o tarjeta pasaporte de los EE. UU.
Pasaporte extranjero clue contenga una fotografia
Tadeta de residente permanente o tarjeta de registro de extranjero (Formulario 1-551)
Documento de Autorizacion de Empleo que contenga una fotografia (Formulario 1-766)
Licencia de conducir o tarjeta de identificacion de los EE_ UU_
Lista B
Certificado de naturalizacion de los EE_ UU.
Tarjeta de ider0caci6n militar de los EE. UU.
Partida de nacimiento
Certrficado de matrimonio
Orden judicial para el cambio de nombre
Tarjeta de ident]ficaclon de extranjero
Recibo de renovacion del pasaporte del consulado que contenga una fotografia
Tadeta de identificacibn del consulado de Mexico
Licencia de conducir extranjera que contenga una fotograffa
Tadeta del registro de votantes extranjeros que contenga una fotograffa
Tai jets de. cruce fronterizo de Canada que contenga una fotograffa
Tadeta de cruce fronterizo de Mexico que contenga una fotograffa con el fonnulario 1-94
valido
Documento de viaje del refugiado que contenga una fotograffa
Obw dwumentos del gobiemo similares
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La LEY DE SIMPL.IFICACION DETRAMITEs DE 4995 (Pub. L 104-13)_ Se eshma que el promedio de [as dedaradanes p(Mms obfigaWas do esta
sdidtud de InIbrmseft es de 30 minueos por respuesta, induido el tiernpo pars revisor las instruedones, recolectar y mantener Jos datos neceserios y
reviser Is sal[citud de infarrnoclbn. Una agenda no puede dirigir M petrminar y no as neomrio que una persona rsapenda a una rewolvetdn d@
informacl6n, a trwms. que mueshe un nAmero de cor►trd vdiido y actual de is Oficina de Admmstraddn y presupuesto (Office of Management and Budget,
OMB) Consulte of avlso de pdvacidad adjuntiMedaracidn de [a Ley de Priracidad para ohtener un anillisis acema de (1) Is autoridad do to sdirAud de
infomiad6n y acerra de si la divulgaciixl as cWkJaWda o voluntacia. (2) Jos pmpdsAw prindpates Para tos coales la informaeidn est3 diriaida. (3) otras usos
Solicitud de reunificacion familiar
Oficina de Reublcacion de Refugiados
2) Pmeba de la identidad del menor
Una copia del certificado de nacimiento del menor
3) Prueba del parentesco
Coplas de los documentos Para brindar pruebas de una relaci6n errtre usted y el menor. Se aceptan
doeumentos vencidos.
Su relacion con el
menor
Padrel"more
ocurnentos aceptables
• Partldas de nacimiento
• Registros judiciales
a Identi icacion con fotograffa del padrelmadre emifida por el gobierno
adrastralmadrastra
doptd legalmente al
menor
• Partidas de nacimiento
a Identifieacion con fotograffa del padrelmadre emifida por el gobiemo
a Identilicacion con fotograffa del padrastm/madrastra emifida por el
goblerno
a Certificado de matrimonio
a Documentos de una orden judicial que confiirman que se estable 6 la
adopcion o la tutoria legal
Tutor legal
Docurnentos de una orden judicial que confinnan que se establecI6 la
adopcibn o la tutoria legal
w Partidas de nacimiento
• Identificacinn con fotograffa del tutor legal emitida por el gobiemo
+ Registros de la tutoria
a Certificados de defuncion
. Registros hospitalarios
iembro de la familia
o tione parentesco
con el menor
a
• Partidas de nacimiento
* Rastra de certificados de defuncion ylo partldas de nacimiento de los
familiares que muestren que usted y el menor tienen un parentesco
o Certificados de matrimonio
a Registras hospitalarios
a Registros judiciales
• Registros de la tutoria
a Certiticado de bautismo
Comunfquese con el Administrador de su caso
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ore 0076-6270 [ratlda pasta st iW3i MS)
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La LEY DE SIW')Uf1CA 6N t3E TRAMMES DE 1985 (Pub. L 144-13). Se estana que el prws& de Lis dedataciones pubkas tsNga Odd de esta
solicitud de hk mnad6n as de 30 minutos por respuesta, induido et tiernpo {sang mvisar ias insOxxsones, rect9eciar y manterw W datos neoesatios y
mvisar la sollalud de Watms46n. Una agenda no puede dirigir ni patfodnar y no es neewario que una persona responds a una reoopitad6n de
informactdn, a menos que mueslre un n6mem de control mgldo y ac uat de la Mina de AdminWracidn y Pmsupuesto (office of ManagerneM and Sudget,
OMB) Consutte el aviso de pdvaddad adluntaMwiaracibrt de la Ley de PdvacWad pars obtener un aMlisis acerca de (1) la autoridad de to solicttud de
Infnr n,-;An u ara nt-A dR ni in dMlload6n es obfioatofia a Muntarta, (2) los prop"tos principsles Para los cuates la inform d6n estA dhigWa, (3) afros usos
4) Registros legales (sl corresponde)
Si usted responft "S[" a cualquiera de las preguntas 15(a) o 15(b) de este formulario, proporcione la
siguiante informaci6n pars cads cargolcondone:
• Nombre de la persona implicada
• Lugar y fecha del incidents
• Eaiplicacl6n del incidents
• Pronunciamiento del incidents (p, ej., retiro de cargos, aplicaci6n de multa, detencion, libertad
condicionai)
• Copia del (de los) registro(s) judicial(es), registro(s) policial(es), y/o registro(s) de la agencia de
servicio social gubememental relacionado(s) con el (los) incidente(s)
5) Evidencia del domicilio
Una copia de at menus un tipo de documentaci6n que verifique su domicifio actual. Los tipos de
documentaci6n aceptables incluyen los siguientes:
• Su rents actual con su nombre, y con fecha en los ultimos dos meses
• Su estado de cuenta actual con su nombre, y con fecha an los Mmos dos mesas
• Su estado de cuenta bancario, con fecha en los 610mos dos meses
• Su empleador emits un recibo de sueldo oficial, con fecha an los ultimos dos mesas
• Su ID del estado valida y vigente con su fotografia y domicifio actual
ico
• Correspondencia, en to posible una factura de servicio ptibli o Ilquida66n do seguros, dirigida a
usted a su domicifio actual, con fecha en los ultimos dos meses
• Carta de su locador, certificada por notario p0blico, en la que se confirme su domicifio y que
contenga su nombre, la fecha en la cual se mud6, la cantidad de dormitorios y la fecha de
vencimiento de la yenta
• Qtros documentos similares que indiquen, de manera confiable, que vine en su domicifio actual,
con facts en los ultimos dos meses
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La LEY uF SiMPLJFICAMN OE TRAMrrES DE 19% {Pub. L 104-13). Se eame que el pmrnedio do fns dedaradones publieas obligatotias de Oslo
soficitud de Rftnnac l6,n es de 30 m xfts por respuesta, incluido el tJempo Para reviser Ins instrucclones, recolectar y mantener Jos datos necesarlos y
ni pairocinar y no es necesario que una persona responda a una recopilad6n de
n
revisor la solicited de infoaasc&i Una agersda no p mde
informad6n, a memos que muestre un n►imero de control v6lido y actual de is Mina de Adm1ni&ad6n y Presupuesto (Office of Management and Budget,
OMB) Consults el aviso de pdvacidad adjunto/Dedarad6n de la Ley de Pmracidad pare obtener un anAllsis acerca de (1) la autoddad de to solic itud de
inhxmaddn y acerea de si to dMilgacidn es obtigatoria o voluntaria, (2) Ics propdsitos principales para los cuales In informec4n eats diftdo, (3) oWn usos
ru6nerios pare tas euales se puede usar la infonnsci6n y (4) los efeelm si los hay, de no brindsr Coda o parte de la informael6n WkAada.
Sponsor Care Agreement
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Le solicit6 a la Oficina de Reubicacion de Refugiados (Office of Refugee Resettlement, ORR)
patrocinar a un nino extranjero no acompanado en el cuidado y la custodia del gobierno federal
conforme al acuerdo extrajudicial estipulado Flores v. Reno. n6mero 85-4544-RJK (Px) (C.D.
Cal., 17 de enero de 1997), secc16n 462 del Homeland Security Act de 2002 y la seccl6n 235 del
William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act de 2008. Si se aprueba la
solicitud de patrocinio, recibira un formulario de Vejftacidn de Aberacidn de ORR y se aelebrara
un acuerdo de custodia con el gobierno federal en el cual acepta cumplir con las siguientes
disposiciones mientras el menor este en su cuidado:
• Propordonar el bienestar mental y fisico del menor, que induye, entre otros, alimentos,
refugio, vestimenta, education, atendo'n medica y otros servicios segun sea necesario.
• Si no es el tutor legal ni el padre o la madre del menor, hags los mejores esfuerzos por
establecer una custodia legal con el tribunal local dentro de un tlempo razonable.
• Asfstir a un programa de orientation legal proporcionado por el Departamento de Justicia
(Department of Justice, DOJ), o programa de orientation legal para custodios
(patrocinadores) de la Oficina Ejecutiva Para la Revision de la Inmigracion (Executive
Office for Immigration Review, EOIR), si estd disponible en el lugar donde reside.
• Seg6n donde este pendiente el caso de inmigracion del menor, notificar of Tribunal de
Inmigracion o al Tribunal de Apelaciones de Inmigracion local en un periodo de cinco (5)
dfas de todo cambio de direction o numero de telefono del menor, usando el formulario
cambio
direction
de
extranjeros
(formulario
de
de
EOIR-33). Ademas, si es necesario, presentar una petition de cambio de competencia
territorial a nombre del menor. La petition de cambio de competenda territorial debe
contener information especif'` cada por el Tribunal de Inmigracion. Tenga en cuenta que la
i
petition de cambio de competencia territorial puede requerir la ayuda de un abogado.
Para obtener asesoramient?o sobre la "petid6n de cambio de competencia territorial",
consulte el Manual de pracdca del Tribunal de Inmigracion en
/it.tn~ry.ti~ it ic~i~c nn`r/ 3~rr jar}f /s~S{'T1t~~~ (iJrt ai /ri~i7 n~r,'i rt r
Para
obtener
infnrmaci6n sabre casos de inmigracion, comuniquese con el sistema de informaci6n de
casos de inmigraci6n de EOIR Ilamando al 1-800-898-7180. Visite el, sitio web de EOIR
pars obtener informaci6n aditional en.
•
Notificar al Departamento de Seguridad del Territorio National (Department of Homeland
Security, DHS) o a Servicios de Ciudadania a Inmigracion de los Estados Unidos (U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services) en un periodo de diez (10) dial de todo cambia de
direction, presentando la Tarjeta de Cambio de Direction de Extranjero (AR-11) o de
manera electr6nica en htic:/Li,usa1-c5;~
•
Asegurar la presencia del menor en todos los procedimientos futuros ante DHS o
Inmigracion y Seguridad de Aduanas (Immigration and Customs Enforcement„ ICE) y el
Departamento de Justicia (Department of Justice, DO]) o EOIR. Para obtener infnrmacion
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sobre casos de inmigracion, comuniquese con el sistema de information de caws de
EOIR llamando al: 1-800-898-7180.
• Asegurar que el menor se presence ante ICE para la expulsion de los Estados Unidos si un
juez de inmigracion ernite una Orden de expulsion o una orden de Salida voluntaria. Se
asigna al menor un oficial de deportacian para los procedimientos de expulsion.
• Notificar a la autoridad policial local o a los Servic' de Probecacion Irrfantil local o estatal
ros
si el menor estuvo o esla en riesgo de estar sujet:o a abuso, abandono, descuido o
maltrato o si se entera de que el menor ha lido amenazado, abusado o agredido sexual o
fisIcamente, o ha desapareddo. Se debe notificar ni bien sea posible o antes de las 24
horas despues de ocurrido el aconbedmiento, o despues de tener conocimiento del riesgo
o la amenaza.
• Notificar al Centro National para Ninos Perdidos y Explotados (National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children) al 1-800-843-5578 si el menor desaparece, fue secuestrado o se
escapa. Se debe notificar ni Mien sea posible o antes de las 24 horas despues de
enberarse de la desapariclon del menor.
• Notificar a ICE si algun individuo que se crea que represents un sindicato de contrabando
de extranjeros, crimen organizado o una organizacion de trafico de Beres humanos se
comunica de alguna forma con el menor. Notificar to antes posible o antes de las 24 horas
despues de conocer esta information. Puede Ilamar a ICE al 1-865-347-2423.
terminos de este Alwamo de cu/dado del pabucinador.
• Si no es el tutor legal ni el padre o madre del nrno, en caso de que ya no pueda y no esbe
dispuesto a cuidar al menor y no pueda transferir de manera temporal is custodia Mica y
el menor retina los requisites de la definicion de nine extranjero no acompanado, debe
notificar a ORR al 1-800-203-7001.
La liberacion del menor mendonado anteriormente de fa Oficina de Reubicado'n de
Refugiados para su cuidado no le oborga al menor ningun estado de inmigracion legal y el
menor debe presentarse a los procedimientos del tribunal de inmigraclon.
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Declaracio' n del p► atr®cinlador
Ofirinn tits Rm ihiraririn rip Rpfi mi irinc
Dedaro y afirmo, bajo pens de perjurio, que soy el pabocinador propuesto para el menor y que
mi Solidlud de raunlfncaddn familiar y los documentos usados comp respaldo a la solicitud
funcionan eomo evidencia de que tengo la plena intenctcin de proporclonarie cuidado al menor
que pretendo patrocinar. Asimismo, no me presento coma patrocinador para no terser a un
menor a mi cuidado y luego transferir ese menor a otra persona, en incumplimiento de la politica
de la Oficina de Reubicad6n de Refugiados Office of Refugee Resettlement; ORR) y las leyes
federales.
Salo puedo transfedr a un menor al cuidado de otra persona en las siguientes situaciones:
(1) a los padres biol6gicos del menor, en caso de que al hacerlo no exponga al nino a un
peligro inmediato y que no haya una finallzact6n de los derechos parentates;
(2) en el caso de que no pueda o no desee continuar el patrocinio debido a una difrcultad
inesperada o en el caso de que deje inminentemente los Estados Unidos, transferire
el cuidado del menor a un cuidador atte nativo (y unicamente al cuidador alternativo)
identificado en mi respuesta a las Preguntas 12a-e de mi Salieitud de reunifica do
familiar, conforme a to aprobado por la ORR en mi Plan de cuidado del patro nador,
si al hacerlo no expongo al menor a un peligro inmediato;
(3) a funcionarios encairgados del cumplimiento de las leyes locales, estatales o federates
o funcionarios del Servicio de Protecci6n de Menores (Child Protective Service, CIS),
o a las personas designadas del gobiemo focal o estatal.
Antes de intentar transferir a un menor, debo notificar al Centro de Atenci6n Telef6nica Nacional
(National Call Center, NCC) de la ORR al 1-800-203-7001. La Ofidna de Reubicaci6n de
Refuglados puede requerir mas informaci6n antes de que pueda realizar una transferencia de
cuidado o puede requerir una medida correctiva antes de aprobar una transferencia..
Si no notifico a la Oficina de Reuhcado'n de Refugiados sobre una transferencia o si transfiero
al menor a una persona no auborizada, entiendo que el gobiemo federal puede procesarme par
perjuido, fraude, trata de personas u otros delitos penales establecidos en la ley federal, segdn
corresponda.
Comprendo que la conspiracio'n o la cooperaci6n en la comisi6n de cualquiera de los siguientes
actos constituye un delito:
(1) ingresar o intentar ingresar a un extranjero a los Estados Unidos par un lugar que no
sea el puerto de entrada designado u otro lugar designado por el Departamento de
Seguridad Nacional (Department of Homeland Security, DHS);
(2) transportar o mover, o intentar transportar y mover, a un extranjero que no gene una
condicion legal dentro de los Estados Unidos para apoyar una violacion de is ley;
(3) alojar u ocultar, o intentar alojar y ocultar, a un extranjero que no tiene una condicidn
legal dentro de los Estados Unidos; o
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(4) incentivar o inducir a un extranjero para que venga a los Fstados Unidos: si su
residenda es o sera una violacion a la ley.
Ademas, puedo estar sujeto a tener que asumir una responsabilidad civil derivada de una
transferencia del cuidado de un menor a una persona no autorizada de forma negligence o
imprudente. La Qfidna de Reubicacion de Refugiados coopers plenamente con las autoridades
encargadas del cumplimiento de [as [eyes locales, estatales y federales, induidas las autoridades
de inmigracd6n federales o las autoridades de bienestar de menores, para goner en prAcUca
fielmente las leyes que involucran is divulgadon de mi infomiadon personal en el caso de que
un menor sea transferido de una manera no autorizada.
Ademas, entiendo que, si no soy un cludadano estadounidense, una translerencia no autorizada
de un menor puede afectar mi capacidad de permanecer en los Fstados Unidos,
independientemente de mi eondiciNon legal de inrnigraci6n.
Afirmo o certifico que entiendo la advertencia proporcionada en esta declaracio"n.
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EXHIBIT 6
GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Child and Family Services Agency
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Request for a Child Protection Register (CPR) Check
The purpose of the Child Protection Register is to protect children and to ensure their safety by maintaining an index of
perpetrators of child abuse and neglect in the District of Columbia. This confidential index includes the names of individuals
with substantiated and/or inconclusive findings from the investigative reports of the Child Protective Services Unit of the
Child and Family Services Agency. Authorized individuals may request background checks to establish whether an individual
has a record of substantiated abuse or neglect of a child that occurred in the District of Columbia.
/ To request a local police clearance for the District of Columbia, please visit https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/187552.
For information about the Sex Offender Registry, visit: https://mpdc.dc.gov/service/sex-offender-registry.
/ If you are making a request on behalf of a state child welfare agency outside of the District of Columbia and need
the history of a family previously living in the District of Columbia, you may call 202-671-SAFE.
/ For other questions, call the CPR Unit at 202-727-8885 between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm Monday through Friday.
Read all instructions — incomplete, incorrect or illegible forms will be returned and your request may be delayed
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Do not complete an old version of the form; get the latest form at https://cfsa.dc.gov/service/baclground-checks.
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Mail or deliver original application (no photocopies); no faxed, emailed, or scanned applications accepted.
Part I
s Schools (other than DCPS), child care facilities, private foster care agencies, and other private, community-based
organizations should select "Non-Government Organization" as the Requestor Type.
s
CPR check results are not transferrable and cannot be shared from one agency or employer to another.
Part II
s
If you have no middle name write "no middle name" or if a middle name is an initial, indicate "initial only."
If the answer to any question is none, write "N/A".
Part III
s An individual must sign the form to provide consent for CFSA to release information to an authorized requestor.
s
The form must be signed in blue ink; electronic signatures are not permitted.
s
An employment request allows access to substantiated reports of child maltreatment, to chief executive officers
or directors of day care centers, schools, or any public or private organization working directly with children, for
the purpose of making employment decisions.
Part IV
s Forms shall be returned if not notarized (Note: applications for prospective and current CFSA resource parents and
kin caregivers need not be notarized, but photo M must be provided and the form must be signed in the presence
of a CFSA employee).
Part V
s Self-check applications must be submitted in person, not by mail.
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Individuals requesting a self-check and CFSA resource parents and kin caregivers must present one non-expired,
government-issued, photo identification: e.g., driver's license, state identification card, passport, "green card".
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Results of CPR self-checks may not be used for employment purposes. Employers must directly request CPR
clearances for prospective or current employees.
MAIL or HAND DELIVER
completed forms to:
Attn: Child Protection Register Unit
Child and Family Services Agency
200 1 Street SE, 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20003
Applications accepted
between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm
Monday through Friday
Rev. October 2017
Please type or print clearly. Sign the form in blue ink, and date where indicated. Thoroughly review and submit to the
CFSA CPR office. Allow up to 30 business days for results to be processed. Expedited requests will be considered on a
case-by-case basis. Forms will be returned if incomplete, incorrect, or illegible resulting in a delayed response.
PART I: Requesting Organization/Employer Information
Request Date
Corrected Application Re-submission Date
Requestor Type
u Court
u Government Agency
u Non-Government Organization
u Self (personal use only)
Purpose
u Adoption
u Visitation
u Court Request
u Current Employee/Volunteer
u Foster/Adoption Licensing
u New Hire/Volunteer
u Kinship Licensing
u Other:
Requesting Organization/Employer Contact Information (results cannot be mailed to a P.O. Box)
Requesting Organization
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, PROGRAM SUPPORT CENTER, DIVISION OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Attention To
Cynthia Ramos
Requestor Address
5600 FISHERS LANE, ROOM 02E70, ROCKVILLE, MD 20857
Phone Number
(301) 443-7047
(301) 480-0292
Fax Number
u By Mail
Preferred method to return CPR check results to the requesting organization
u By Fax
PART I1: Applicant Information
Last Name (include suffix if applicable)
Date of Birth (MM/DD/YYYY)
Full Middle Name
(write "no middle name' if there is none)
First Name
Social Security Number (or LISCIS/Alien Registration #)
Gender (on birth certificate)
u Male
u Female
Other Names Used (nicknames, alias, maiden name, previous married name, legal name change, etc.)
Household Information. List all persons living at the current address with the applicant (including students away at college).
Name (first name, middle name, last name)
CPR Check Form
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Date of Birth
obtain the latest form online at cfsa.dc.gov
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Relationship to Applicant
Rev. October 2017 1 Page 2 of 4
Previous Residency Information. List all addresses (excluding zip code) and the start and end dates, to the best of your ability.
Indicate L, W or M in the first column (L = lived, W = worked, M = received mail).
•
Applicants for employment or volunteer purposes must include all addresses of residence and where mail was received for the
last five (5) years.
•
Applicants for adoption, foster care, and kinship care must provide addresses for residency, receipt of mail and employment
from the age of 18, per Title 29 DCMR Chapter 60 § 6009.1.
To calculate the starting date for the previous addresses, add 18 years to the date of birth (e.g., If you were born in 1970, add 18
so addresses going back to 1988 must be provided).
To help obtain previous addresses, check the credit report bureaus (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion).
•
•
Current Address (include Street #, Apt #, Quadrant if applicable)
LWM
Previous Address (Include street # and Apt #)
City
City
State
State
Zip
Start — End Dates
(MM/YYYY — MM/YYYY)
CPR Check Form ( obtain the latest form online at cfsa.dc.gov I Rev. October 2017 1 Page 3 of 4
PART III: Applicant Consent
I hereby consent and authorize the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency to provide the Requestor (noted in Part 1)
information concerning me that is contained in the Child Protection Register ("CPR").
Printed Name:
Date:
Signature:
Must be signed in blue ink; electronic signatures not permitted
PART IV: Certificate of Acknowledgement of the Applicant before a Notary Public
Leave this space blank for Notary seal
Applicant Name
(Printed)
Applicant Signature
(must be signed in the presence of a Notary)
Date
Subscribed and affirmed or sworn to me, in my presence, on this
day of
Signature of Notary Public:
My commission expires on _~
20
in the state of,
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PART V: Self Check, CFSA Resource Parent, and CFSA Kinship Caregiver Verification
CFSA USE ONLY: Identification has been shown to me that I have deemed satisfactorily identifies the applicant:
ID #
Type of ID
CFSA Employee Name (print)
CFSA Employee Title (print)
CFSA Employee Signature
CPR Check Form I obtain the latest form online at cfsa.dc.gov I Rev. October 2017 1 Page 4 of 4
Exhibit DD
July 6, 2018
The Honorable Alex Azar
Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue SW
Washington, DC 20201
The Honorable Kristjen Nielsen
Secretary
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528
Dear Secretary Azar and Secretary Nielsen:
As governors representing states where separated migrant children are being detained, we write
to express our growing concern with this Administration’s ability to reunify families in
accordance with the federal court injunction issued on June 26, 2018. Given recent reports
suggesting this process is being carried out chaotically and inconsistently, and in light of your
agencies’ latest admission that hundreds more separated migrant children are in the custody of
the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) than were previously accounted for, we remain
deeply concerned that wholly inadequate resources and procedures are in place to ensure
children and parents are reunified safely and securely within the court-ordered deadlines.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) now claims it has as many as 3,000
children in its custody who were removed from their parents at the southern border, as a result of
this Administration’s outrageous family separation policy. The substantial discrepancy between
this number and the 2,047 children who were previously identified by Secretary Azar raises
serious questions about this Administration’s systems and processes for ensuring these children,
including infants and toddlers, can be safely returned to their parents. To date, your agencies
have also consistently refused to account for the number of children who are already reunified
with their parents or placed with another long-term sponsor.
Let us be clear — the responsibility for these children’s plight rests solely in your hands. It is
unequivocal that this Administration’s harmful “zero-tolerance” policy is to blame for the
forcible separation of families at the southern border, not Congress or the courts. That’s why
each of us forcefully and vocally opposed this destructive approach to immigration enforcement,
which has inflicted intentional, gratuitous and permanent trauma on thousands of young children.
Although we welcomed the decision to abandon the shameful practice of forced family
separation, we strongly object to the omission in the President’s executive order on June 20,
2018, of any clear directive or strategy to reunify separated children with their parents.
A federal district court ruled correctly last week that this policy constitutes “irreparable harm”
with long-term implications for children’s health, safety and well-being, and it ordered the
Trump Administration to reunify separated children under the age of five within 14 days and all
separated children within 30 days. Unfortunately, it remains entirely unclear whether your
agencies have established the necessary protocols or dedicated adequate resources to meet these
deadlines without compromising children’s safety and welfare.
Perhaps even more troubling is a recent indication by representatives of your agencies that the
Trump Administration does not believe separated children must be reunified with their actual
parents under the court order. In a meeting with governors’ offices on June 29, 2018, these
representatives shared that reunification may include the placement of separated children with
any long-term sponsor — regardless of whether that placement is with their parents, another
family member residing in the U.S., a family member residing in their home country or in a longterm foster care setting. If true, this interpretation appears to blatantly ignore the terms of the
court order. The federal government has also recently admitted that reunification is being used as
a bargaining chip to induce parents to agree to voluntary deportation.
On behalf of the children residing in our states who have been needlessly traumatized and who
remain justifiably frightened for themselves and their families, we ask that you immediately
answer the following basic questions:
1. How many separated migrant children in HHS custody have already been reunified? Are
there any new children who have been separated from their parents since the President’s
executive order on June 20, 2018? If so, how many and where are they?
2. Of those children who have already been reunified, how many have been placed with the
parents they arrived with at the U.S. southern border? How many were placed with a nonparent family member or other sponsor? Of the children placed with a non-parent family
member or sponsor, in which states were they placed?
3. If any were placed with a non-parent sponsor, what policies do your agencies intend to
put in place to enable long-term reunification between children and their parents?
4. What steps is the federal government requiring separated parents to comply with before
gaining back custody of their children? (For example, must they consent to return to their
country of origin, post bond, or submit to DNA testing or finger-printing?)
5. What safeguards are being put in place to ensure the results of any DNA testing of
parents and children are not used for any purpose other than familial verification? Are
these results de-identified and ultimately destroyed?
6. How many of the separated migrant children in HHS custody have been provided with
legal services and representation?
As parents, we are heartbroken by the unimaginable pain inflicted on thousands of unwitting
children who have done nothing wrong and parents who often have valid claims for refugee or
asylum status. As governors, we will not stay silent as long as these children remain unjustly
detained in our states, separated from their parents simply because of this Administration’s
unwillingness or ineptitude to govern legally with humanity and compassion.
Sincerely,
Governor Jay Inslee
State of Washington
Governor Andrew Cuomo
State of New York
Governor Dannel P. Malloy
State of Connecticut
Governor Phil Murphy
State of New Jersey
Governor Tom Wolf
State of Pennsylvania
Governor Kate Brown
State of Oregon
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