6 Sep 2018 9:00 pm
So they now plan to detain children with their parents indefinitely, in defiance of a court order.
What could possibly go wrong there?
As of tonight there are still 416 children separated from their parents.
But hey! How about that GDP?
Not licensed to hold children.Trump Administration To Defy Court Order On Child Detention
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Thursday that it plans to withdraw from a federal court agreement that strictly limits the conditions under which authorities can detain migrant children, and proposed new rules that it said would enable it to detain minors during their immigration proceedings.
The administration is targeting the Flores Settlement Agreement, a 1997 federal consent decree that places significant curbs on how long and in what conditions the government can detain migrant children as it seeks to dissuade migrants from crossing the U.S. southern border.
Immigrants and their advocates are expected to mount legal challenges to the administration’s effort to exit the agreement, which has been interpreted over the years to set a 20-day limit on detaining children who entered the country illegally, and also requires facilities that house migrant children to be licensed by a state authority.
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The regulation proposed on Thursday would create a new federal licensing system, so authorities could hold children with their parents in detention centers that are not licensed by state authorities to hold children.
What could possibly go wrong there?
As of tonight there are still 416 children separated from their parents.
But hey! How about that GDP?