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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the lawsuit he is co-leading with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, over the Trump administration's plan to detain immigrant children indefinitely.

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19 States And DC Sue Administration Over Plan To Detain Migrant Children Indefinitely

6:57pm August 26, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

The states are taking legal action to prevent the Trump administration from dropping out of an agreement on how long it can hold children in federal facilities and under what standards.

The entrance of a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the agency is removing children from the facility following reports of unsanitary conditions inside.

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Migrant Children Moved From Border Patrol Center After Outcry

8:35pm June 24, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

Reports of children detained in crowded and unsanitary conditions long beyond the maximum legal limit have created a new controversy over the administration's immigration policies.

U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled that the government must seek consent before administering psychotropic drugs to immigrant children held at a Texas facility.

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Federal Judge Orders Government To Seek Consent Before Medicating Migrant Children

10:22pm July 30, 2018

by Richard Gonzales

The court ruled the government must abide by a decades-old court settlement affecting the detention of migrant children.

President Trump, with DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, and Vice President Pence, right, prepares to sign an executive order ending the practice of separating migrant families. But the move leaves many questions unanswered.

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Trump's Executive Order On Family Separation: What It Does And Doesn't Do

10:25pm June 20, 2018

The president ends a policy that sent thousands of children to government-run facilities away from their parents; critics say he just created new problems, and kids already held may be there a while.