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Los Angeles County Supervisors To Discuss Migrant Family Detention

During Tuesday’s meeting, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plans to join in on the public comment opposing the creation of family detention centers.


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In conjunction with the City of Los Angeles, the County Board of Supervisors will likely recommend that the county joins the public comment opposing the proposed rule that seeks to terminate the 1997 Reno v. Flores Settlement Agreement and create family detention centers, according to officials.

As it was originally written, the Reno v. Flores Settlement Agreement stemmed from a previous court case of the same name, which set many of the standards by which all federal immigration authorities are supposed to handle migrant children, specifically stipulating the conditions and length at which U.S. officials detain children.

And although settled decades ago by the United States Supreme Court, the case has recently resurfaced in the limelight after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attempted earlier this year to modify the agreement in order to allow the federal government to detain children for more than 20 days — the maximum amount allowed for in Reno v. Flores.

Additionally, the DOJ request also asked for the agreement to be modified in order to give the executive branch more authority in determining family units, and allow for children to be detained with their parents at Department of Homeland Security “family residential centers,” as opposed to licensed care facilities.  

In July 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee rejected the DOJ’s attempt to modify the settlement agreement, saying that the request was “wholly without merit” and was similar to the the executive branch asking to “light a match to the Flores Agreement and ask this court to upend the parties’ agreement by judicial fiat.”

However, following Gee’s ruling, the Trump administration published a notice of proposed rulemaking which circumnavigates the 1997 Settlement Agreement, essentially dissolving the requirement that children not be kept in secure, unlicensed detention facilities for more than 20 days.

And in the most recent development regarding the legal battle that stretches back to the Clinton administration, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will likely direct county counsel, in consultation with other concerned parties, to draft an official comment opposing the termination of the Flores Settlement Agreement, according to officials.

Authored by Supervisors Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl, Tuesday’s motion calls on the official position of the Board of the Supervisors submitted during the public comment section — the period of time given to members of the public to submit their opinions on a particular policy change before it becomes final — on or before Nov. 6.

“The negative impacts of indefinite detention are contrary to and directly undermine the county’s priority and goal to protect the rights and promote the success of all immigrants and their families,” reads the motion filed by Solis and Kuehl. “Los Angeles County, home to about 3.5 million immigrants, must oppose this proposed rule, urge that the United States uphold the (Flores Settlement Agreement) and help protect immigrant children.”  

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Los Angeles County Supervisors To Discuss Migrant Family Detention

2 comments

  1. Got to build the wall and minimize illegals entering the United States.

  2. The mere statement that the LA County needs to protect the RIGHTS of immigrants is false bc they have no rights until they have entered legally! By legally I mean entered through proper paperwork not catch and release which is not with legal standing to begin with bc it was implemented by circumventing congress! Build the wall deport them all! Say no to corruption yes to the wall! Americans have rights illegals do not!

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About Caleb Lunetta

Caleb has been a Santa Clarita resident for most of his life. After attending Hart High School, Caleb went on to study political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara along with College of the Canyons.