DOJ Asks Federal Judge To Remove 20-Day Immigrant Family Detainment Limit

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo/AP


By NOMAAN MERCHANT and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | June 21, 2018 4:37 pm

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Department of Justice on Thursday asked a federal judge to change the rules regarding the detention of immigrant families who enter the country illegally, seeking permission to detain them for longer than 20 days in an effort to keep children with their parents.

Lawyers filed a memorandum to a settlement in California that governs how children are handled when they are caught crossing the U.S. border illegally. The Flores settlement states that families cannot be detained longer than 20 days.

The move is aimed at stopping the separation of children from their families amid a new policy where anyone caught crossing the border is charged criminally.

The request comes a day after President Donald Trump signed an order stopping the practice that has resulted in the separation of more than 2,300 children from their families. The Trump administration’s so-called zero tolerance policy will remain in place, but families will be kept together in detention.


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[uppityperson]

1. And there we go. Indefinite detention.

[John Fante]

2. They won't get it. Which means the family seperations

will continue in roughly 19 days.

[Fred Sanders]

11. No judges, even a conservative judge is going to overturn a well known and respected and

well reasoned policy in the midst of a political war over... children and infants.

The very notion of overturning the Flores Settlement is pure evil...it is in furtherance of an evil policy. Little has changed because the evil is still in power and nothing will change until the evil is removed.

[empedocles]

3. Despite trump hopes this issue will not go away soon

Wish some litigators would file for injunctive relief.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. it would be funny as hell if the judge just said...meh, no detention at all...

it is clearly cruel and unusual punishment for a misdemeanor office.

Maybe 20 days for felony reentry.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Is this the 1997 ruling and it all hinges on one judge's ruling?

What is plan B for our side?

[elleng]

7. This is based on the '97 ruling, which case is still 'open.'

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210765231

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210765433

More to come, imo.

[AlexSFCA]

6. they probably wont get it or may get some extension but not indefinately

and it doesnt seem there is gonna be any legislation coming anytime soon. They have no interest in humazing this;it’s the opposite

[sinkingfeeling]

8. We knew this was what he would do.

[stuffmatters]

9. Yep.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Didn't republicans used to be against legislating from the bench?

[elleng]

12. *Being discussed on Laurence show.

Peter Schey, who represents the class of children in the Flores case, will appear.