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The Flores settlement: A 1985 case that sets the rules for how government can treat migrant children

  • Written by Kevin Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
The Flores settlement: A 1985 case that sets the rules for how government can treat migrant childrenMigrant children outside a temporary shelter for unaccompanied children in Florida, May 2019.AP/Wilfredo Lee

What are the basic rules that determine how immigrant children are treated in U.S. immigration detention?

The Trump administration’s detention of migrant children in poor conditions along the U.S./Mexico border has repeatedly raised...

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