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Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration To Stop Holding Migrant Children In Hotels

Ashe Schow
Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration To Stop Holding Migrant Children In Hotels
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First, the Trump administration was ordered not to hold migrant children with their families in immigration jails. Now, the administration can’t detain migrant children in hotels before removing them from the United States.

The Associated Press reported Saturday that U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled Friday “that the use of hotels as long-term detention spaces violates a two-decade-old settlement governing the treatment of immigrant children in custody.”

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