JUST IN: 17 states sue the Trump administration!

by The Right Scoop

Another day, another lawsuit against the Trump administration. This time it’s about family separation at the border:

WRAL – Seventeen states, including Washington, New York and California, sued President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who have been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The states, all of which are led by Democratic attorneys general, joined Washington, D.C., in filing the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Seattle. It’s the first legal challenge by states over the practice.

“The administration’s practice of separating families is cruel, plain and simple,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said in an emailed statement. “Every day, it seems like the administration is issuing new, contradictory policies and relying on new, contradictory justifications. But we can’t forget: the lives of real people hang in the balance.”

Immigration authorities have separated about 2,300 children from their parents in recent weeks, sparking global outrage as images and recordings of weeping children emerged. Many parents are in custody thousands of miles from their children, whom they have not been able to see and have rarely spoken to for a month or more.

Here are the states involved. Note that it says all of these states currently have Democrat AG’s:

The states that sued are Massachusetts, California, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.

I get that they don’t like Trump’s EO, because truthfully it doesn’t do that much to stop the separations as it can’t override the court order from 1997. But instead of focusing on Democrats in Congress (and some Republicans) to pass laws fixing this, they do what Democrats love to do: sue President Trump.

What they are probably looking for is some activist court which will issue an injunction against the Trump administration. If they get their way and a district court halts separations, this could backfire on them:

Not only that, but if it is not carefully done it might mean children who need to be separated cannot be separated and thus could put the children in danger – which is the reason for many separations at the border, to protect the children.


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