Trump Administration Moves to End Rule Limiting Detention of Migrant Children
21 August 2019
The Trump Administration has announced plans to end the Flores agreement, a 1997 federal court agreement that limited the length of time migrant children could be kept in detention at the U.S. border. The change will allow migrant families to be detained indefinitely, beyond the existing 20-day limit for holding children.
In an article in TIME Anastasia Tonello warns “stripping away these fundamental humanitarian protections will only benefit private prisons and waste billions in taxpayer money to jail children and their parents.”
Read the full TIME article here.
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