A child was prevented from changing his underwear for four days. A little boy, got bored and recovered from disappointment, began to hit himself in the head. A child with autism and meditation/over-active disorder was forced to go without his mother’s arguments, despite his mother’s arguments.
“I heard that an official said about us,” They smell like Sh–“” A person taken into a detained person filed in a federal court. “And another officer replied,” They are SH– “.
Attorney collected these stories for immigrant children, and more, youth and families, which they have detained, called “jail-like” settings across the US from March to June, even the Trump administration requested a federal district court judge to conduct children for children, including-surprise and sanitary conditions for the current security and services.
The administration argues that the compulsory security encourages immigration under the floors settlement agreement and interferes with its ability to establish immigration policy. The US District Court Judge Dolly ji, who is in California, is expected to issue a decision on the request after the August 8 hearing.
With the Floors Agreement, children are being organized for several weeks in “unprotected and uneven” US customs and border security facilities such as tents, airports and offices 72 hoursAs June court filing From the lawyers of immigrants. In In addition to protest The Request of the US Department of Justice may request to abolish the Floors Consent Decree, the lawyers demanded more monitoring for children in immigration.
“The biggest fear is that without floors, we will lose an important line of transparency and accountability,” Sergio PerezExecutive Director of California -based Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. “Then you have an ideal storm for the misuse of individuals, violation of their rights, and the kind of treatment for this country.”
Floors agreement Since 1997, the minimum standard and inspection for immigrant children detained has been set, when it has abolished a decade -long case, filed by unpounted immigrants minors, which were subjected to unprotected and unequal conditions without access to medical care. It is named after a 15 -year -old Jenny Lichet Flores in L Salavador, which was taken into American detained in the mid -1980s, was subject to strip discoveries, and with unrelated men.
The agreement established national standards for the protection of immigrant children detained by federal authorities, with requirements for safe and sanitary custody facilities, clean water, appropriate food, clothes, beds, entertaining and educational opportunities, hygiene, plus access to proper medical and mental health care. Children ranging from infants to adolescents in immigrant detention.
In 2015, GE ruled that the agreement included children with adults.
The Department of Justice and Homeland Security, including both customs and border security agency and immigration and customs enforcement, refused to answer the administration’s intention to abolish the floors agreement or questions about the conditions about the conditions in which children have been detained. One in Court filing can be doneGovernment lawyers argued among other points that the agreement improperly directs immigration decisions in the courts, not the White House. American Attorney General Palm Bondi also Where is The Floors Agreement has “encouraged illegal immigration,” and Congress and federal agencies have solved problems designed to fix the floors.
White House spokesperson, Abigel Jackson, is the “supreme standard” in ice detention facilities, said KFF Health News in an email. “They are safe, clean, and illegal aliens who are waiting for the final removal proceedings.”
Immigration lawyers and researchers have pushed back On the idea that the floors compromise encourages migration, arguing that people’s conditions in the motherland are running to move them.
President Trump is not the first President to amend, or abolish the agreement.
In 2016, President Barack Obama’s administration failed to exempt with minors from the floors agreement, arguing that the influx of the migrants of Central America overwhelmed the system.
In 2019, one after the other Policy that caused family separationThe first Trump administration announced that it would replace the floors to expand the family’s detention with new rules and eliminate the detention time limit. The courts also rejected that plan.
In 2024, the President of the President Joe Biden successfully requested that the office of refugee rehabilitation requested the Health and Human Services Department to remove some floors standards in the agency rules.
The allegations of unsafe conditions under the agreement are also before this latest immigration crack under Shri Trump. Since 2019, a court said that lawyers visiting two Texas Detention Centers found at least 250 babies, children and teenagers, some of which were held in convenience for about a month. The filing said, “The children were dirty and wearing clothes covered in physical fluids including urine.”
There are seven children Known to die According to media reports, in federal custody from 2018 to 2019.
And in 2023, 8-year Anadith danay rayes alvarez Got ill and died in customs and border security custody in Texas for nine days. Her parents had changed the medical record, giving details of the medical history of the girl, including the diagnosis of sickle cell disease and congenital heart disease, in her custody. Still his mother’s Frequent arguments Emergency medical care was ignored.
His family filed Claim of wrong death In May.
Advocates kept deaths in prolonged detention in prolonged congestion facilities and delayed medical care. Officials have said that they increased Medical services And Accepted failure In view of deaths.
But the Trump administration’s unprecedented push to take and deport the migrants of the Trump administration – including families – the health of children caught in those sweeps is dangerous to child advocates.
A senior supervision lawyer Daniel Hatum said, “Very rarely you have spikes in the population of the detained folk, which you do not see a huge lack of medical care.” Texas civil rights projectOne of the groups who had filed a wrong death claim for Anadith’s family.
The recent report continued from the court appointed by the court Lack of access to proper medical careTemperature extreme limit; Outside something Entertaining opportunity; Shortage of proper food more clothes; And inability to sleep slow to sleep.
All external inspections of immigration preventive facilities by monitor and lawyers ordered by the court will be removed by abolishing the floors agreement. The public will have to depend on the government for transparency about the conditions in which children are held.
“Our system requires some monitoring for the government, not only the Department of Homeland Security, but in general,” Hatum said. “We know that. Therefore, I don’t believe DHS can do the police themselves.”
In the months after Mr. Trump took over and the efficiency of the government led by Elon Musk began to cut, Administration stopped The office of DHS for civil rights and civil freedom, the office of citizenship and immigration services, and the office of the immigration destrual Ombdsman, which were to connect a layer of oversight. After a trial, Trump Administration Converse action and notes will be openBut it is not clear how they have been affected by changes in office policy and cuts in staffing.
Lesia Welch, a lawyer with a legal advocacy group Children’s rightsSaid that floors agreement, or efforts to hold the government responsible for following their needs, are not vested in partisan politics. He said that he also expressed concern about the situation during Biden’s administration.
“These are not political issues for me,” Welch said. “How does our country want to treat children? This is very simple. I am not going to take it easy on any administration where children are suffering in their care.”
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