Judge orders U.S. into mediation on border patrol treatment of migrant children

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the government into mediation to resolve serious concerns about the treatment of migrant children at crowded U.S. border patrol facilities in Texas.

The judge in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles overseeing a decades-old legal settlement governing the treatment of detained migrant children had been asked by the children’s attorneys to issue an emergency order to send public health experts and doctors to the border patrol facilities in the El Paso and Rio Grande sectors.

Last week, the lawyers raised alarm after seeing what they described as “deplorable” conditions for hundreds of children, who the attorneys said were held without sufficient food, water and sanitation.

A surge of mostly Central American families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has strained border patrol facilities and pushed Congress to pass emergency spending measures. On Thursday, the government said the requests by the children’s attorneys would “impose extensive obligations” on the government and went beyond the terms of the settlement.

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U.S. JUNE 28, 2019 / 2:50 PM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
Kristina Cooke
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1. 'Judge Dolly Gee, who oversees the so-called Flores agreement, said a mediation could resolve

concerns more quickly. The case has a court-appointed monitor, who she said could set deadlines and take measures to address the issues.

She pointed to past orders on violations of the agreement for similar issues, and said “the parties need not use divining tools to extrapolate” what constitutes noncompliance, she wrote. “The Court has made that clear beyond peradventure.”'

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2. "Peradventure": uncertainty or doubt as to whether something is the case.

Another new word of the day for me.

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3. Dollars and goods can freely cross the border, but not people

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4. The Honorable Dolly Maizie Gee

This is one fine person.

She is the daughter of Cantonese immigrants from rural China. Born in Hawthorne, CA. UCLA undergrad and law school. Appointed by Barack Obama!

In June 2018, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions requested that the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California modify the Flores Agreement “in a manner that would permit the Secretary, under present resource constraints, to detain alien families together throughout the pendency of criminal proceedings for improper entry or any removal or other immigration proceedings.” 2018-07-09, Gee rejected the request, citing that there was no basis to modify the agreement and pointing out that it is an issue the legislative branch has to solve instead. She ruled at the time that immigrant children generally can't be held longer than 20 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_M._Gee

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5. "Impose extensive obligations" on the government

They argue in response to the children's attorneys.

The government was obligated the minute they kidnapped these kids. Furthermore, the $700 a day per child they are already paying should more than cover the basic necessities.