Wednesday, August 21, 2019

It doesn't feel far off

"As early as Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security is expected to issue a sweeping new set of regulations for detaining migrant children, replacing more than two decades of protections that were put into place as a result of what happened to Alma and her fellow detainees in 1985. The new standards could allow the government to detain children and families for longer periods, revise the minimum standards of care and end the 22-year-old consent decree, known as the Flores agreement, that has protected the nation’s youngest and most vulnerable new arrivals."

~ M. Jordan

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/flores-migrant-children-detention.html

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