Lawyer puts pups over immig kids

The fate of hundreds of children ripped from their migrant parents was still up in the air Friday, but a Trump administration lawyer working on the case has a side gig to attend to — dog-sitting.

At a hearing in San Diego Federal Court Friday, the Trump administration asked Judge Dana Sabraw to extend deadlines he set last month for officials to reunify the hundreds of migrant families separated because of its zero tolerance policy. The first deadline is July 10.

During the two-hour hearing, Sabraw asked Justice Department lawyer Sarah Fabian and a lawyer representing the American Civil Liberties Union about their availability over the weekend.

“We will do whatever. We will stay the weekend,” said the lawyer representing the ACLU, which successfully sued the Trump administration over its family-shattering practice last month.

Fabian said she had other obligations.

“I have dog-sitting responsibilities that require me to go back to Colorado but I will be back Monday,” she said, according to a transcript published by NBC News.

The judge asked the parties to be back in court Monday morning.

Sabraw ordered on June 26 that the Trump administration must reunite the thousands of children who have been separated from their undocumented parents. The administration was given a July 10 deadline for parents with children under 5 and a July 26 deadline for everyone else.

Fabian informed Sabraw on Friday that the administration is in compliance with his reunification order — but urged him to extend the July 10 deadline.

In the meantime, Sabraw ordered the Justice Department to turn over a list of the 101 children under 5 who are still separated from their parents to the ACLU by Saturday afternoon, which Fabian said would be done.

Ahead of the Friday hearing, the Justice Department laid out the challenges in meeting the reunification deadlines.