There WAS family immigration detention facilities which was ruled by a judge that it violated the Flores settlement almost two decades ago. Obama administration inaction on a new agreement for children coming across the border with their mothers.
Here is a really great article from 2015 summarizing how we got to today and the massive amount of hypocircy from the Democrats..
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article28687876.html
>>1831591 more from 2015 and the Obama administration…
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article27554233.html
Talks over detention of immigrant families abandoned
WASHINGTON
Secret talks over the fate of the Obama administration’s family detention program have broken down, meaning a federal judge will rule on when and how migrant mothers and children can be locked up during asylum and other court proceedings.
Department of Justice officials and lawyers for the mothers have been locked in high level talks for nearly two months, trying to negotiate a new agreement after U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee of the Central District of California found in a draft ruling that locking up mothers and children in secure facilities violated a 1997 agreement on detaining migrant children.
Negotiations were extended three times before being abandoned. The exact reason for the breakdown is unclear, but the two sides have struggled to agree on conditions under which mothers and children can be held.
The immigration lawyers have sought to severely restrict when mothers and children can be detained, but federal officials have argued that they need more flexibility to respond to unexpected migration surges like last year’s wave of migrants from Central America.
“At this stage the parties are unable to reach an agreement that would resolve the currently pending motions,” the two sides stated in a joint motion. “The parties agree that at this stage, further discussion would not be fruitful.”
The spotlight now turns to Judge Gee who, based on her draft ruling, is expected to rule favorably for the immigration lawyers. In her April 24 draft ruling, Gee dismissed federal officials’ “rosy account of the conditions” at the federal centers and said children and mothers should not, for example, be held in a concrete-block facility built to house adult prisoners.
“It is astonishing that [federal officials] have enacted a policy requiring such expensive infrastructure without more evidence to support that it would be compliant with the agreement that has been in effect for nearly 20 years or effective at achieving what defendants hoped it would accomplish,” she wrote in the draft ruling.
But that was in April. The administration has since taken several steps to curtail the program as its faced intense media and political scrutiny. In her draft ruling, Gee also stated that federal officials can use the residential centers as “temporary facilities” depending on a family’s situation.
Last week, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials began releasing hundreds of detained mothers and children from the nation’s family detention centers as part of a promise to end long-term detention of migrant families.
Spot on. As reference…
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article27554233.html
210 page PDF filing….
https://ia801505.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.197752/gov.uscourts.dcd.197752.1.0.pdf
https://ia801505.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.197752/gov.uscourts.dcd.197752.1.0.pdf
ANONS, BAKER..
https://ia801505.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.197752/gov.uscourts.dcd.197752.1.0.pdf