Grade 2 of 5: Major Abuse of Power
2019 Flores Replacement Rule: An Attempt to Authorise Prolonged Detention of Migrant Children With Their Families
The first Trump administration wrote a regulation to end the court settlement that limits how long migrant children can be detained, so that families could be held together in ICE-licensed facilities for the length of their cases. Federal courts blocked the family-detention provisions before they took effect, holding that they contradicted the settlement's core presumption in favour of release.