BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Thursday [9-6-18] moved to abandon a longstanding court settlement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept locked up, proposing new regulations that would allow the government to detain families until their immigration cases are decided. Homeland Security officials said that ending the so-called Flores agreement of 1997 will speed up the handling of asylum requests while also deterring people from illegally crossing the Mexican border. The move angered immigrant rights advocates and is all but certain to trigger a court battle…The Flores agreement requires the government to keep children in the least restrictive setting possible and to release them generally after 20 days in detention. For decades, because of those restrictions, many parents and children caught trying to slip into the country have been released into the U.S. while their asylum requests wind their way through the courts — a practice President Donald Trump has decried as ‘catch-and-release.'”
–The Associated Press, “Trump Administration Moves to Detain Migrant Families Longer,” The New York Times online, September 6, 2018