Trump admin seeks to end 30 year old ruling giving unaccompanied migrant children basic necessities [View all]
Immigration attorneys expressed outrage Thursday afternoon as the Trump administration seeks to end a nearly 30-year ruling that gives unaccompanied migrant children basic necessities, including food, water, toothpaste and soap.
The Flores Settlement Agreement is a 1997 legal settlement resulting from a class-action lawsuit that established nationwide standards for the treatment, detention, and release of migrant children in U.S. immigration custody. Under the ruling, children must be held in safe, sanitary, and licensed facilities.
During President Donald Trump’s first term, his administration tried — and failed — to dissolve the deal, Mother Jones noted Thursday. And he's doing so again, this time "using a similar argument now, that circumstances have changed dramatically since the agreement was established decades ago, with different immigration laws in place and far more migrant children."
"After 40 years of litigation and 28 years of judicial control over a critical element of U.S. immigration policy by one district court located more than 100 miles from any international border, it is time for this case to end," the Justice Department said in its filing, according to CBS News.
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