The Trump administration is arguing that it shouldn't have to bring back separated immigrant parents it deported

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• The Trump administration said Thursday it won't bring back any of the immigrant parents who were deported after being separated from their children.
• The government is still trying to reunite more than 500 immigrant children with their deported parents.
• Many immigrant parents have alleged that US officials tried to coerce or intimidate them into leaving the US and giving up their own asylum claims.
• But the American Civil Liberties Union has argued that in some families' cases, the only way to reunite them will be to bring the parents back the the US.

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The Trump administration said in a court filing Thursday that it will oppose any efforts to bring to the United States the deported immigrant parents who were separated from their children, setting the stage for a potential conflict with the American Civil Liberties Union over hundreds of families waiting to be reunited.

The government is under court orders to reunite more than 2,500 immigrant children who were separated from their parents in recent months under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy.

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