[Published: Wednesday June 20 2018]
 New York to sue Trump over immigrant families
NEW YORK 20 Jun (ANA) - New York state plans to sue US President Donald Trump over his treatment of immigrant families along the US-Mexican border.
The lawsuit was announced by Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, a long-time opponent of Donald Trump.
"The Trump administration's policy to tear apart families is a moral failing and a human tragedy," Cuomo's statement said.
"We will not tolerate the Constitutional rights of children and their parents being violated by our federal government," the statement continued.
On Twitter, Cuomo said at least 70 children are being held in detention centres in New York, a number expected to increase.
The Trump administration's policy to tear apart families is a moral failing and a human tragedy. We will not tolerate the Constitutional rights of children and their parents being violated by our federal government. This heartless policy must end once and for all.
The state is basing its suit on a 1997 legal settlement in which basic standards were set for the treatment of children detained for immigration reasons.
The suit alleges those standards are not being followed by Trump.
US border agency, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has come under heavy criticism for its treatment of families at the US-Mexican border.
Last week, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman said that nearly 2,000 minors were separated from 1,940 adults who crossed the US border without documents between April 19 and May 31.
Administration officials falsely claim they are simply following the law, however, there are no statutes that mandate separating children from families at the border.(ANA)
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