A
federal judge in California has ruled that the Obama administration’s detention
of children and their mothers who were caught crossing the border illegally is
a serious violation of a longstanding court settlement, and that the families
should be released as quickly as possible.
In a decision late
Friday roundly rejecting the administration’s arguments for holding the
families, Judge Dolly M. Gee of Federal District Court for the Central District
of California found that two detention centers in Texas that the administration
opened last summer fail to meet minimum legal requirements of the 1997
settlement for facilities housing children.
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