A Honduran mother and her son at a U.S. Border Patrol detainee processing center.
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The Trump administration released a new federal regulation Thursday that would allow immigrant children to be kept in detention indefinitely.
The proposed change would upend the Flores settlement, a 1997 consent decree that says migrant children cannot be kept in jail-like settings and prohibits them from being held for more than 20 days.
In a statement, Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen referred to those prohibitions as a “legal loophole” and “one of the primary pull factors for illegal immigration.” The way the Trump administration sees it, migrant adults bring children with them across the border because they know they can’t be held in detention for very long. The new rule changes this.
Under the proposed change, the Feds would be able to hold families together during the entirety of their immigration cases. The government insists it will still “satisfy the basic purpose” of the Flores […]
It is definitely a crime and shows the low moral standards the Trump administration has and makes our entire country look immoral. How could we allow this to continue???