
On Tuesday reporter Ryan Girdusky broke the news that the Trump Administration was going to announce a major change to the Flores Agreement on Wednesday.
– Trump's establishing a national standards for family housing that will mandate alien families can be held together during immigration proceedings.
– this will protect children's welfare by closing loopholes used by human smugglers
– THE GOVERNMENT IS TERMINATING FLORES
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) August 20, 2019
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On Wednesday Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan announced in a press conference that the Trump administration will scrap the Flores Agreement and end the limits on the detention of migrant families.
FOX News reported:
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it would move to scrap a major court agreement in order to allow for migrant families to be detained longer as their cases are being considered, instead of having to release them after 20 days.
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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, in a press conference detailing the decision, claimed that the long-standing court order known as the Flores agreement has incentivized illegal immigration and represents a “loophole” in the immigration system.
That agreement prohibited children from being kept in detention for more than 20 days. As a result, officials were releasing entire families to keep them from being separated.