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Changes for a landmark agreement mean immigrant children face harsher treatment in US

  • Written by Kevin Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
Immigrants line up in the dining hall at the U.S. government's newest holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas. AP/Eric Gay

The Trump administration is trying to terminate the Flores settlement, a legal agreement that determines how immigrant children are treated in U.S. immigration detention.

The 1997 settlement established...

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