The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy has resulted in the separation of thousands of families. Now, a week after the administration failed to meet a reunification deadline for hundreds of children, they want something to be done about it — they just don’t want to be the ones to do it.

According to The Washington Post, the Department of Justice submitted a court filing on Thursday, August 2, saying that the American Civil Liberties Union should be responsible for reuniting parents who have been deported with their children still in the U.S.

“Plaintiffs’ counsel should use their considerable resources and their network of law firms, NGOs, volunteers, and others, together with the information that defendants have provided (or will soon provide), to establish contact with possible class members in foreign countries,” DOJ said.

This proposal from the Trump administration comes as a surprise, since the ACLU has been calling out the government’s immigration practices and policies for months. The ACLU even filed a lawsuit on behalf of families that have been separated — a lawsuit that ended in a judge ordering separated families be reunited and imposing the deadline the Trump administration failed to meet.

In addition, CNN reported that the ACLU is doing whatever it can to help with reuniting families, but the government hasn’t been providing them with complete case files of separated parents. Politico reported that some addresses are documented as “in DHS custody” or “failed to provide,” whereas some other records say “calle sin nombre” (street without a name) or only list the name of a city.

“Not only was it the government’s unconstitutional separation practice that led to this crisis, but the United States Government has far more resources than any group of NGOs,” ACLU lawyers wrote in the court filing. “Plaintiffs therefore hope that the Government will take significant and prompt steps to find the parents on their own.”

“It often takes a degree of detective work and investigation in order to track down the most up-to-date contact information for deported individuals. In addition, because deported parents may be hiding from persecutors, it is often not easy to track down exactly where they may be located. This means that every possible lead must be pursued,” the ACLU wrote.

According to NPR, as of Thursday, there are still 572 children who remain in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, which has been overseeing separated children.

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