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Judge Blocks Trump Rules for Detained Migrant Children

Associated Press

   LOS ANGELES - A U.S. judge on Friday blocked new Trump administration
   rules that would enable the government to keep immigrant children in
   detention facilities with their parents indefinitely.

   U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles said the rules
   conflict with a 1997 settlement agreement that requires the government
   to release immigrant children caught on the border as quickly as
   possible to relatives in the U.S. and says they can only be held in
   facilities licensed by a state.

   Gee said the Flores agreement -- named for a teenage plaintiff -- will
   remain in place and govern the conditions for all immigrant children in
   U.S. custody, including those with their parents.

   "The agreement has been necessary, relevant, and critical to the public
   interest in maintaining standards for the detention and release of
   minors arriving at the United States' borders," the judge wrote in her
   decision.

   "Defendants willingly negotiated and bound themselves to these
   standards for all minors in its custody, and no final regulations or
   changed circumstances yet merit termination of the Flores agreement."

   The Trump administration sought to end the agreement and issued the new
   rules with the hope of detaining immigrant children in facilities with
   their parents. The move came as part of a broader crackdown on asylum
   seekers arriving on the Southwest border, many of them families with
   children from Central America.
   

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