Federal judge rejects Trump’s request to allow long-term detention of immigrant kids

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• A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s request to allow long-term detention of illegal immigrant children.
• Judge Dolly Gee turned down a US Justice Department motion to modify a 1997 settlement to allow the government to keep underage migrants in detention alongside their parents.
• The government asked to suspend a requirement that immigrant children be held only in facilities that meet state child welfare licensing regulations, so as to allow whole families to be detained together.

A US federal judge on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request to allow long-term detention of illegal immigrant children, a key part of President Donald Trump’s executive order to end the separation of immigrant families.

In a ruling in federal court in California, Judge Dolly Gee turned down a US Justice Department motion to modify a 1997 settlement to allow the government to keep underage migrants in detention alongside their parents.

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