She was separated from her 1-year-old at the border. The government wouldn’t tell her why.

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. The settlement also said separations were allowed when government officials found parents or legal guardians could pose “a public safety or national security risk to the United States,” including people suspected of terrorism or espionage. However, when asked whether the Russian cases highlight the potential pitfalls of the agreement the ACLU made with the administration, Gelernt said that the government “cannot create a loophole and place everything in the black box of national security.” He added that if the exceptions become “an excuse to circumvent the bar on separations, we will return to court.” With Biden leaving office soon, it’s the incoming Trump administration that most worries the advocates. Trump made stopping border crossings and mass deportations a centerpiece of his campaign and says they are part of his Day 1 plans for when he takes office, but when asked several times in an interview over the weekend if he would revive the zero tolerance policy, he said: “We’ll send the whole family, very humanely, back to the country where they came. Marina’s New York-based attorney, Elena Denevich, said in an email that while she has filed a series of parole requests for Marina since May, “the requests were denied based on unspecified ‘national security concerns.’” Denevich said DHS “has provided no evidence or explanation to substantiate this allegation.” The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services and oversees migrant children, said it could not comment on individual cases and referred questions about enforcement to DHS.