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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJudge Blocks Trump Administration Plan to Detain Migrant Children
A federal judge issued a final order that prevents the government from enacting its plan to detain children for lengthy periods.A group of women and children waited to be processed by the Border Patrol after they tried to cross into the United States near Eagle Pass, Tex., in May.
LOS ANGELES A federal judge on Friday rejected new regulations that would allow the government to hold children and their parents in detention for indefinite periods, one of the Trump administrations signature efforts to curtail the large number of families arriving from Central America.
Describing the governments defense of its proposed new policy as Kafkaesque in some of its reasoning, Judge Dolly Gee of Federal District Court for the Central District of California said it was up to Congress, not the administration, to supplant a 20-year-old consent decree that requires children to be held in state-licensed facilities and released in most cases within 20 days.
President Trump has repeatedly criticized the legal loopholes that he said force the government to engage in what he calls catch and release of migrant families who have been arriving, until recently, in record numbers on the southern border.
Under the 1997 consent decree, known as the Flores agreement, the government must seek to expeditiously release children from detention and maintain a number of minimal standards for them in secure detention facilities.
Describing the governments defense of its proposed new policy as Kafkaesque in some of its reasoning, Judge Dolly Gee of Federal District Court for the Central District of California said it was up to Congress, not the administration, to supplant a 20-year-old consent decree that requires children to be held in state-licensed facilities and released in most cases within 20 days.
President Trump has repeatedly criticized the legal loopholes that he said force the government to engage in what he calls catch and release of migrant families who have been arriving, until recently, in record numbers on the southern border.
Under the 1997 consent decree, known as the Flores agreement, the government must seek to expeditiously release children from detention and maintain a number of minimal standards for them in secure detention facilities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/migrant-children-flores-court.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration Plan to Detain Migrant Children (Original Post)
spanone
Sep 2019
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Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)1. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread spanone.
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(135,846 posts)3. Thank you Uncle Joe!
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)2. Excellent! K&R.