A U.S. judge has blocked the Donald Trump administration from separating immigrant parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, and ordered that those who were separated be reunited within 30 days.
The nationwide injunction was issued late on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego.
Ms. Sabraw’s preliminary injunction also requires the government to reunite children under the age of five with their parents within 14 days, and let children talk with their parents within 10 days.
Over 2,300 children separated
More than 2,300 migrant children were separated from their parents as a result of the administration's “zero tolerance” policy that began in early May and sought to prosecute all adults crossing the border without authorisation, including those travelling with children.
Although Mr. Trump issued an executive order on June 20 to end the family separations, the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the San Diego case, said it contained “loopholes” and did little to fix the problem. Some 2,000 children remain separated.
