The Trump administration is moving to end a federal agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention
In this July 12, 2019 file photo, men stand in a U.S. Immigration and Border Enforcement detention center in McAllen, Texas, during a visit by Vice President Mike Pence.
Homeland Security officials say they are adopting their own regulations that reflect the "Flores agreement," which has been in effect since 1997, and there is no longer a need for court involvement, which was only meant to be temporary. But the new rules would allow the government to hold families in detention much longer than 20 days.
Holly Cooper, co-director of the immigration law clinic at University of California, Davis and a lawyer in the Flores case, said attorneys haven't seen the final rule and will have a week to brief a federal judge, who will weigh whether they are consistent with the settlement. Most are released into the US while their asylum requests wind through the courts — a practice Trump has derided as "catch-and-release."
The government operates three family detention centers that can hold a total of about 3,000 people. One is being used for single adults, and the other two are at capacity. The massive influx of Central American families to the US-Mexico border has greatly strained the system and foiled Trump's tough talk on immigration, though agreements by Mexico to clamp down on migrants and a new agreement with Guatemala forcing migrants to claim asylum there instead of heading north are expected to reduce the flow.
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