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Changes for a landmark agreement mean immigrant children face harsher treatment in US

  • Written by Kevin Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
Changes for a landmark agreement mean immigrant children face harsher treatment in USImmigrants line up in the dining hall at the U.S. government's newest holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas. AP/Eric Gay

The Trump administration is trying to terminate the Flores settlement, a legal agreement that determines how immigrant children are treated in U.S. immigration detention.

The 1997 settlement established...

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