A federal judge has ruled that illegal immigrants stuck in makeshift outdoor 'detention' sites in Southern California are technically in the government's custody and agents must now follow strict rules for delivering care to the children among them.
Asylum-seekers walk to a U.S. Border Patrol van after crossing the nearby border with Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 26, 2023, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. Migrants continue to arrive to desert campsites along California’s border with Mexico, as they await processing.
“Although it may be true that CBP did not initially intend for these locations to become collectively holding thousands of migrants, it is nonetheless true that the situation has evolved such that the minors held there are in the legal custody of CBP,” she wrote in the Apr. 3 decision. Under Flores, illegal immigrant children must be quickly released from Homeland Security’s custody. For most unaccompanied children that means being turned over to government-run shelters to await placement with sponsors.
The government set up tent cities to handle all of the children it was facing in 2021, and wrote new rules cutting corners to speed up placement of children with sponsors.
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