DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration will forge ahead with a plan to keep migrant families detained together through the course of immigration proceedings, according to a Federal Register announcement Thursday [9-6-18]. The administration will publish a notice of proposed rulemaking that sets standards for the care of families, a step that may terminate the 1997 Flores settlement agreement, which governs the treatment of unaccompanied minors in federal custody…The proposed regulation would tackle a key sticking point for detaining families together: a requirement that facilities holding migrant children maintain a state license for such a purpose. While the proposal calls the licensing mandate ‘sensible,’ it argues that the federal government should be able to issue an equivalent license…The proposed rule also challenges a time limit that Flores placed on the detention of minors. The rule ‘may result in extending detention of some minors and their accompanied parent or legal guardian in [family detention centers] beyond 20 days,’ the DHS document said. But the judge overseeing the Flores agreement — Los Angeles-based U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee — has indicated already that minors may be held longer than 20 days if the government secures their parents’ consent.”
–Ted Hesson, “Trump family detention plan challenges court settlement,” Politico, September 6, 2018 10:50 am