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The History Of The Flores Settlement And Its Effects On Immigration

It’s still far from clear how President Trump’s executive order ending family separations is being carried out. As the order itself acknowledges, detaining families together instead of separately requires changes to a decades old settlement called the Flores agreement. Among other things, the agreement limits the amount of time children can be held in federal detention to 20 days. Yesterday, the Department of Justice asked federal judge Dolly Gee to modify the agreement, and it’s not the first time she’s been asked to do so.

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HOLGUIN: Yes. We went to see her at a sort of makeshift detention center that the INS had set up in Pasadena. The facility was a 1950s style hotel shaped like a U with the open part going towards the street. And the INS cheap Air max shoes essentially put a chain link fence in front of it with a sally port and then concertina wire on top of it and then all around the perimeter of the hotel. And it was two stories with, you know, sort of a balcony that goes around the second story, a pool in the middle. And so they cheap air jordan drained the pool and started placing men, women and children of both sexes in rooms. There was regular daily contact with unrelated adults of both sexes.

KELLY: And how many in a room? Do you know?

HOLGUIN: It was usually about four. So the kids would essentially just hang around by the drained pool or on the balconies for days until or weeks cheap jordans shoes or months until it was determined what to do with them.

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cheap jordans free shipping KELLY: The Flores lawsuit went all the way to the Supreme Court. Eventually, in 1997, the two sides Cheap jordans signed a settlement that has governed treatment of migrant children in detention ever since. with their parents. It came amid a surge in migrant families from Central America, and the administration wanted to detain some of them for as long cheap jordan sneakers as it took to process their cases. A federal judge in California said no, which brings us to yesterday when the Trump administration submitted a very similar request. And the same federal judge, Dolly Gee, is set to hear the case 33 years after Carlos Holguin first brought suit on behalf of Jenny Flores. cheap jordans free shipping

Did you ever expect when you started on all this, down this path in the 1980s, that sitting here in 2018 you would still be litigating the Flores case?

HOLGUIN: (Laughter) I had no idea, no. This is this has been something that has come as a complete surprise. There is a clause in the original Flores settlement that would have sunset ended the agreement after five years, but it required the government to implement the terms of the settlement cheap nike shoes as a federal regulation. The government never did that. And they’ve still never done that. So the government has had the ability for many, many years to extricate themselves from the requirements of the Flores settlement, but they’ve never had the wherewithal to simply promulgate the rules that are necessary for it to do so.

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cheap jordan shoes HOLGUIN: No. I think the only thing that perhaps concerns cheap jordans in china them is that the regulations would have to be consistent with the Flores settlement and that that seems to dissuade them from actually complying with their agreement and making the rules that the settlement requires. cheap jordan shoes

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HOLGUIN: Oh, yes, unquestionably it could. In 2008, it passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act which included a savings clause that kept the Flores settlement in force. So Congress’ last word on this was that the Flores settlement should continue. You know, it could obviously say that, no, we’re replacing it with this other comprehensive set of legislation if it wanted to.

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cheap jordans 2018 HOLGUIN: What it really does is it foists upon these families an extremely difficult choice. If they want their children to have the rights that the Flores settlement gives them and the government is unwilling to release the parent, it’s either a choice between Flores rights and separation, family separation. cheap jordans 2018

To foist upon a parent the choice between separating from my child or having my child treated in accordance with the Flores settlement seems to me to be extremely cruel. And so my guess is that that’s where we’ll see the Trump administration placing these families, forcing them into making that kind of choice. That sort of choice is not something that the Flores settlement itself addresses or prevents the government from forcing upon families.

KELLY: Carlos Holguin, thank you.

cheap jordans europe KELLY: Carlos Holguin he’s general counsel at the Center for Human Rights Constitutional Law. And he is still counsel for Flores et al. in the case now known as Flores v. Sessions. cheap jordans europe

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