Immigrant Children Forcibly Medicated While in U.S. Custody, Lawyers Say
- 1997 Flores accord at odds with Trump’s zero-tolerance policy
- U.S. accused of violating agreement on minimizing detention
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Children who allege they’re being detained for crossing the U.S. border without any court oversight and forcibly medicated will have to wait another month for a judge to consider whether the government’s practices violate a 1997 agreement.
A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday postponed to July 27 a hearing that had been scheduled for this week. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee gave human rights’ lawyers representing immigrant children two days to respond to a separate U.S. Justice Department request to modify the 1997 settlement that restricts the use of detainment so that children caught crossing the border illegally can be held together with their families.