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Trump Admin Seeks to Allow Indefinite Detention of Immigrant Families

HeadlineSep 07, 2018

The Trump administration moved Thursday to remove court-imposed time limits on the detention of immigrant children. The proposal would allow immigrant families to be held in detention indefinitely, ending the long-standing 1997 Flores agreement which says that children cannot be jailed for more than 20 days. Nearly 500 children remain separated from their parents more than a month after a court-imposed deadline requiring the Trump administration to reunite all of the separated families. This comes as a top American Civil Liberties Union lawyer said it appears ICE officials had access to the phone numbers of hundreds of parents of separated children before the June 26 family reunification deadline, but intentionally withheld the phone numbers for months. We’ll have more on the Trump administration’s family separation policy later in the broadcast.

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