A federal judge has ordered the release of children held with their parents in U.S. immigration jails, and has denounced the Trump administration’s prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gee oversees a long-running court settlement governing the U.S. government’s treatment of immigrant children known as the Flores agreement. Her order does not directly apply to the parents detained with their children.when ICE officials unexpectedly asked them who could take their children if the adults remained detained, according to lawyers for the families. The agency said then it was conducting a “routine parole review consistent with the law” and Gee’s previous orders.
— including a child who turned 2 this week — were placed in isolation after two private contractors and an ICE official tested positive for the virus.Amy Maldonado, an attorney who works with detained families, said Gee “clearly recognized that the government is not willing to protect the health and safety of the children, which is their obligation.”
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