Posted on July 14, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Recently, a federal judge ordered ICE to release children from detention in certain detention centers. Last week, the federal government announced its position that it is not required to release entire families automatically. Immigrant advocates warn that this will lead to more family separations. Similarly, lawyers for the detained families have expressed concern that this will either push parents to release their children without them or lead to families staying in detention.
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Posted on July 23, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The New York Times reports that as the Trump administration moves to expand family detention, two of the government’s own medical consultants sent a letter to the Senate’s Whistleblower Protection Caucus detailing a series of 10 investigations over the past four years that “frequently revealed serious compliance issues resulting in harm to children.”
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Posted on August 18, 2016 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Ninth Circuit held that the Flores settlement agreement applies to both minors who are accompanied and unaccompanied by their parents, and that the lower court correctly refused to amend the agreement to accommodate family detention. The court also found that the lower court erred in interpreting the agreement to provide an affirmative right to release for accompanying parents, but did not preclude such release, and explicitly made no determination about whether DHS is making otherwise appropriate and individualized release determinations for parents.
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Posted on August 18, 2016 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Ninth Circuit held that the Flores settlement agreement applies to both minors who are accompanied and unaccompanied by their parents, and that the lower court correctly refused to amend the agreement to accommodate family detention. The court also found that the lower court erred in interpreting the agreement to provide an affirmative right to release for accompanying parents, but did not preclude such release, and explicitly made no determination about whether DHS is making otherwise appropriate and individualized release determinations for parents.
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Posted on July 6, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Posted on June 8, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Several of the women being held in family detention in Karnes City, Texas, are pregnant. According to the article, the women stated that they learned about their pregnancies after being given a urine test soon after admission, and one of the women stated that she had not received any off-site medical care for her pregnancy.
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