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Children are escorted to the Cayuga Center, which provides foster care and other services to immigrant children separated from their families, in New York City, U.S., July 10, 2018. Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Nation Sep 27

Judge says Trump’s migrant child detention rules go against Flores agreement

By Amy Taxin, Associated Press

World Aug 26

Watch 5:49
News Wrap: 19 states sue over extended migrant detention limits

In our news wrap Monday, 19 states sued to stop rollback of limits on detaining migrant children. The 1997 Flores agreement generally limits that period to 20 days, but President Trump wants to be able to hold entire families longer.

Nation Aug 26

An immigrant child plays in front of patriotic phrases and symbols covering the walls in a gymnasium as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) hosts a media tour at the South Texas Family Residential Center, which houses families who are pending disposition of their immigration cases on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 in Dilley, TX. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
A look inside the facilities where migrant families are detained

Trump administration officials have described the centers, where migrants could be detained indefinitely under new rules, as “campus-like settings,” but immigration advocates say they are more like prisons.

By Gretchen Frazee

Nation Aug 26

A girl from Central America rests on thermal blankets at a detention facility run by the U.S. Border Patrol on September 8, 2014 in McAllen, Texas. The Border Patrol opened the holding center to temporarily house the children after tens of thousands of families and unaccompanied minors from Central America crossed the border illegally into the United States during the spring and summer. Although the flow of underage immigrants has since slowed greatly, thousands of them are now housed in centers around the United States as immigration courts process their cases. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
19 states sue over Trump’s rule change on migrant detention

Nineteen states sued on Monday over the Trump administration's effort to alter a federal agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention.

By Kathleen Ronayne, Associated Press

Nation Aug 21

Watch 10:43
What Trump’s new immigration rules mean for the detention of migrant children

The Trump administration is proposing major changes to rules about how long migrant families can be held in government custody, arguing that the move will yield more humane conditions in detention facilities. But critics fear the regulations will have the…

Aug 21

Why Trump wants to detain immigrant children longer

By Gretchen Frazee

Under new rules laid out Wednesday, immigration officials plan to begin holding children longer than the 20 days required by the Flores Settlement Agreement.

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Aug 21

WATCH: Trump administration proposes longer detention of migrant families

The Department of Homeland Security is moving to end a long-standing federal court agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention.

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Sep 07

More than 400 migrant children remain separated from their parents. Here’s what we know

By Joshua Barajas

Amid the ongoing reunification effort for these migrant families was Thursday's news of the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to change the longstanding Flores agreement, which requires the government to hold immigrant children in the "least restrictive setting" and generally…

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Jul 10

Judge rejects request to detain migrant families long-term

By Brian Melley, Associated Press

A California federal judge on Monday rejected the Trump administration's efforts to detain immigrant families for long terms, calling it a "cynical attempt" to undo a longstanding court settlement.

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