Immigration
Sep. 20, 2016
Federal judge quizzes government lawyer on child immigrant detention policy
Plaintiffs' motion is the latest flash point in a series of recent rulings on handling of migrant children.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES — Unaccompanied child immigrants detained indefinitely without a hearing asked a federal judge Friday to order the U.S. government to comply with a decades-old settlement, which mandates kids be placed in licensed juvenile shelters instead of locked facilities unless an immigration judge has found them to be dangerous or a flight risk.
The plaintiffs' motion is the latest...
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