White House Reviews Rule To Change Flores Agreement
Published:
Thu, Jun 20th 2019 @ 3:35 pm EDT
The White House Office of Management and Budget has started reviewing a proposed rule that would allow lengthy detentions of migrant children, according to the agencies website, as reported by Politico. The rule aims to free the Trump Administration from the restrictions of the 1997 Flores settlement agreement, which limits the amount of time undocumented children can spend in DHS detention facilities. The current cap on detention lengths for alien children is twenty days. It is unclear how far the White House plans to extend the detention period but Sen. Graham's (R-S.C.) Secure and Protect Act of 2019 proposes extending the detention period to one-hundred days cementing the new limit into law.
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