Government races against deadline to reunite all children it separated from their parents at border
In a filing by Leah Chavla of the Women's Refugee Commission, Chavla said one mother at a family detention center in Dilley was put on the phone with a child that was not hers. “The mother kept saying to the child that he did not sound like her son until she realized she was, in fact, talking to a different child,” Chavla's declaration reads.
The federal government could have more legal fights on its hands over the deported parents. Michelle Brané, the attorney-director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women's Refugee Commission, said cases will be analyzed by attorneys on an individual basis.