Trump administration tells judge it has authority to keep immigrant families in long-term detention
Rather than continue to separate children from parents apprehended crossing the border illegally, the Trump administration wants to hold the families together, indefinitely, in detention centers, Justice Department lawyers told a federal court.
In papers filed Friday evening, the Justice Department told U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles that they believe a decades-old court case that she has supervised gives them the authority to carry out the detention plan.
"The government will not separate families but detain families together during the pendency of immigration proceedings when they are apprehended at or between ports of entry," the Justice Department said.
The lawyers wrote they were looking to "explain" to Gee how the government planned to adhere to an order issued this week by a federal judge in San Diego, while not running afoul of a long-standing settlement agreement in the case Gee oversees.
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