Trump Administration Routinely Violating Immigrant Children’s Rights
A new legal brief filed 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 and physical abuse, and retaliation against children who complain. Plaintiffs also accuse ICE of hiding the true extent of detentions in its 2026 annual report by providing misleading averages. The ongoing abuse contradicts the government's claims of providing wellness programming such as Zumba and crochet, which families say never occurred.
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