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September 7, 2018

Trump Admin Seeks to Allow Indefinite Detention of Immigrant Families
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The Trump administration moved Thursday to remove court-imposed time
limits on the detention of immigrant children. The proposal would allow
immigrant families to be held in detention indefinitely, ending the
long-standing 1997 Flores agreement which says that children cannot be
jailed for more than 20 days. Nearly 500 children remain separated from
their parents more than a month after a court-imposed deadline requiring
the Trump administration to reunite all of the separated families. This
comes as a top American Civil Liberties Union lawyer said it appears ICE
officials had access to the phone numbers of hundreds of parents of
separated children before the June 26th family reunification deadline,
but intentionally withheld the phone numbers for months. We'll have more
on the Trump administration's family separation policy later in the
broadcast.


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