Trump Administration Routinely Violating Immigrant Children’s Rights
A new legal brief filed on July 15 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California alleges that the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security is routinely violating the 1997 Flores agreement by holding hundreds of immigrant children at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, for well over the legal limit of 20 days, with some detained as long as 323 days. The brief, filed against acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, includes firsthand accounts of abuse by guards employed by private prison company CoreCivic, including denial of medical care, inadequate education, verbal abuse, physical retaliation, and sexual harassment. Plaintiffs also accuse ICE of publishing an annual report that hides the true number of children detained and the duration of their stays, offering inconsistent averages that still exceed the Flores limit. The ongoing abuse contrasts sharply with the government's claims of providing wellness programming like Zumba and crochet, which families and attorneys say never occur.
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