Seventeen states, including Washington, New York and California, sued President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who have been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.

包括华盛顿、纽约和加州在内的17个州周二起诉了唐纳德特朗普政府，以迫使官员们把墨西哥边境被美国隔离的移民家庭团圆。

Late Tuesday, a federal judge in California issued a ruling on a separate but similar lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego ordered border authorities to reunite children with their families within 30 days of the Tuesday ruling, or 14 days if the child is younger than 5. Sabraw also issued a nationwide injunction on future family separations.

周二晚些时候，加州的一名联邦法官对一项独立但类似的诉讼做出了裁决。美国地方法院法官Dana Sabraw命令边境当局在30天内把周二定出规则后裁决的家庭重新团聚，如果孩子小于5岁，期限将缩小到14天。Sabraw还在全国范围内发布了禁止在未来分离家庭的禁令。

It wasn’t immediately clear how the federal ruling would impact the states’ lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Seattle.

目前还不清楚联邦法院的裁决将如何影响各州的诉讼，这一诉讼是在西雅图的联邦法院提起的。

The states, all led by Democratic attorneys general, joined Washington, D.C. in the first legal challenge by states over the Trump administration’s recent policy of splitting children from migrant families who may have crossed the border illegally.

这些州都是由民主党总检察长领导的，他们加入了华盛顿特区，这是各州对特朗普政府最近的一项政策挑战，即把孩子从非法越境的移民家庭中分离出来。

“The administration’s practice of separating families is cruel, plain and simple,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said in an emailed statement. “Every day, it seems like the administration is issuing new, contradictory policies and relying on new, contradictory justifications. But we can’t forget: the lives of real people hang in the balance.”

“政府分离家庭的做法是残酷而武断，”新泽西州总检察长格比尔格雷瓦尔在一份电子邮件声明中说。“每一天，政府似乎都在发布新的、相互矛盾的政策，并依赖新的、相互矛盾的理由。”但我们不能忘记：真正的生活处于平衡之中。”

Immigration authorities have separated about 2,300 children from their parents in recent weeks, sparking global outrage as images and recordings of weeping children emerged. Many parents are in custody thousands of miles from their children, whom they have not been able to see and have rarely spoken to for a month or more.

最近几周，移民当局已经将大约2300名儿童从他们的父母中分离出来，哭泣的儿童的图像和录音出现在网络上，引发了全球的愤怒。许多父母被关押在离他们的孩子数千英里的地方，他们一直没能看到他们，一个月甚至更长时间没有和自己的孩子说过话。

The states that sued are Massachusetts, California, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.

起诉的州包括马萨诸塞州、加利福尼亚州、特拉华州、爱荷华州、伊利诺斯州、马里兰州、明尼苏达州、新泽西州、新墨西哥州、纽约州、北卡罗来纳州、俄勒冈州、宾夕法尼亚州、罗德岛州、佛蒙特州、弗吉尼亚州和华盛顿。

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