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Trump administration's “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which led to the separation of children from adults who crossed the border illegally, has fueled a national outcry. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180818113702/https://www.texastribune.org/subscribe">Sign up</a> for our ongoing coverage. 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And for now, the government is not permitted to deport reunited families — also the result of a court order this week.</p> <div class="site_ad--wrapper instory"> <p class="site_ad--label">The Texas Tribune thanks its sponsors. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180818113702/https://mediakit.texastribune.org/" ga-on="click" ga-event-category="Sponsorship" ga-event-action="sponsorship-intent" ga-event-label="Hum">Become one</a>.</p> <div class="site_ad--instory"> <div class="adunit" id="ad-unit-150640"></div> </div> </div> <p dir="ltr">The Thursday court order gives the government some measure of a solution to that dilemma: U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw has agreed that families can waive that 20-day right and other Flores guarantees, keeping their children with them in immigration detention centers. Or they themselves can choose to re-separate. That means the government won’t be forced to violate the Flores settlement as they wait for permission to deport some migrant families.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Department of Justice did not return a request for comment Friday. But last month, Justice Department lawyer Scott Stewart said the government’s goal is ensuring that migrant parents who would otherwise have been detained can’t “bootstrap a right to release” just because they’re reunited with their children.</p> <p dir="ltr">“In neither circumstance do this Court’s orders create a right to release for a parent who is detained in accordance with existing law,” says an Aug. 16 order from U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw.</p> <p dir="ltr">The order had sign-off from the American Civil Liberties Union, which successfully took the federal government to court this year to order the reunifications.</p> <p dir="ltr">Attorneys on both sides of that case agreed that the court-mandated family reunifications do not diminish the government’s ability to detain migrants; but the Thursday order should also not be seen as preventing the government from releasing them, the ACLU pointed out in court filings. A different federal judge <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180818113702/https://www.texastribune.org/2018/07/02/judge-rules-trump-administration-cant-arbitrarily-detain-asylum-seeker/" target="_self">ruled</a> in July that the federal government can’t indefinitely detain asylum seekers without good reason, like posing a danger to the community.</p> <p dir="ltr">Some reunited families have already been released from immigration detention — some were first tagged with ankle monitors — but Stewart indicated that the government is exploring legal options for keeping more families detained. The federal government has also been working to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180818113702/https://www.texastribune.org/2018/08/02/trump-administration-texas-migrant-detention-facilities-map/" target="_self">steadily increase</a> its capacity for detaining families by building more facilities that can house parents and kids together.</p> <div class="site_ad--wrapper instory"> <p class="site_ad--label">The Texas Tribune thanks its sponsors. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180818113702/https://mediakit.texastribune.org/" ga-on="click" ga-event-category="Sponsorship" ga-event-action="sponsorship-intent" ga-event-label="Hum">Become one</a>.</p> <div class="site_ad--instory"> <div class="adunit" id="ad-unit-150641"></div> </div> </div> <p dir="ltr">Sabraw’s Thursday order puts into migrant parents’ hands the conundrum the Trump administration has struggled with for months: where, and how, to house families who illegally cross the border together as they proceed through the winding, drawn-out process of seeking asylum in the United States. Though they now have more choice, migrant families seeking refuge here do not all seem to have the option most had under previous presidents — to remain free in the United States, on bond or parole, while awaiting an asylum hearing in court.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Trump administration has made it clear it prefers to hold families who illegally cross the border together in immigration detention centers. 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