Migrant Children Describe Abuse, Hunger in U.S. Detention Facilities
- Parallel court fights overlap on treatment of detained kids
- U.S. faces Thursday deadline to reunite kids over five
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As the U.S. races to meet a court deadline this week to reunite children separated from their families under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, a judge in Los Angeles is weighing whether to appoint a monitor to oversee their treatment while in custody.
Human rights lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles to appoint a special monitor, arguing that the U.S. has conducted a “full-scale assault” on the landmark agreement known as the Flores settlement, first reached in 1997, which restricts the government’s ability to detain immigrant minors and mandates standards of care.