Thread: Judge Rules Against Current Detention System of Illegal Immigrant Families

by Breitbart News
25 Jul 2015
177 comments

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice’s current system of detaining children with their mothers after they’ve crossed the U.S.-Mexico border violates an 18-year-old court settlement.

The decision Friday by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in California is a victory for the immigrant rights lawyers who brought the case, but its immediate implications for detainees were not yet clear. The ruling upholds a tentative decision Gee made in April, and comes a week after the two sides told her that they failed to reach a new settlement agreement as she’d asked for.

The 1997 settlement at issue bars immigrant children from being held in unlicensed, secure facilities. Gee found that settlement covered all children in the custody of federal immigration officials, even those being held with a parent.

Peter Schey, executive director of the Center for Human Rights and one of the attorneys who brought the suit, said federal officials “know they’re in violation of the law.”

“They are holding children in unsafe facilities, it’s that simple,” Schey said in an email to The Associated Press. “It’s intolerable, it’s in humane, and it needs to end, and end sooner rather than later.”

Justice Department attorneys did not immediately reply to late-night messages seeking comment on the ruling.

The new lawsuit was brought on by new major detention centers for women and children in Texas that are overseen by the U.S. government but are managed by private prison operators. Together they have recently held more than 2,000 women and children between them after a surge of tens of thousands of immigrants from Central America, most of them mothers with children, many of whom claimed they were fleeing gang and domestic violence back home.

The Justice Department had argued it was necessary to modify the settlement and use detention to try to deter more immigrants from coming to the border after last year’s surge and it was an important way to keep families together while their immigration cases were being reviewed, but the judge rejected that argument in Friday’s decision.

Gee said the Department of Justice has 90 days to show cause why it should not change its policies in according with her ruling.

But since the tentative ruling in April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has vowed to make the facilities more child-friendly and provide better oversight.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...rant-families/

Break American law and American attorneys cry baby for them to judges. Judges rule to make enforcing law more stringent or difficult. When American authorities (are there any) do as much for the Victim's families of alien law breaking, America may deserve a B- from me.

Example: While the undertaker and I were discussing how to get Kevin's body home, we talked of flying. A permit from the government was required. several hundred as I recall. I suggested I could just drive to retrieve him and return him home. No, I could not, I was not an employee of a licensed funeral home, I believe was the objection He had to be transferred from one funeral home to another to ensure that he was retuned to family, Frustrated, since one of the Mexicans in the Mexican car was killed, I inquired, "So how do the Mexican get theirs home?" He was already gone, someone had shown up in the night to claim the body. All they had to do was profess to be relatives, and the home help them load him into a Mexican station wagon. I said, "For all we know he is buried along a country roadside?" The response I got was , "I cannot confirm or deny that."

Aliens are pampered and want more!! For 25 years I have not understood Americans not objecting for 25 years. It would have been simpler to "Git'er done" then than it is now!

by William Bigelow
26 Jul 2015

Illegal alien children who cross the United States border with their mothers can no longer be held in detention centers supervised by the federal government and run by private operators, according to a decision by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee on Friday.

Gee ruled that the current practice of the U.S. Department of Justice, which involves housing illegal alien parents and children in the detention centers,a violated a settlement in a 1997 case titled Flores V. Meese. The settlement said migrant children had to be released to foster care, relatives or the least restrictive environment possible in centers that were licensed to house children. Gee extended that ban to children accompanied by a parent.

In April, Gee ruled that the federal government could not detain mothers and children who claimed they were fleeing violence in their home countries and asked the Department of Justice and illegal immigrant advocates to reach an agreement within 30 days. She rejected the Department of Justice’s assertion that the detention centers were necessary to slow the flow of illegal immigration and house the immigrants while their cases were being reviewed.

On Friday, Gee threatened the Department of Justice, giving the department one week to show why she should not implement her ruling within 90 days.

The three detention centers in question are located in Texas and Pennsylvania; they have held over 2,000 women and children after the recent massive illegal immigration from Central America.

The Justice Department had argued it was necessary to modify the settlement and use detention to try to deter more immigrants from coming to the border after last year’s surge. The department also argued that it was an important way to keep families together while their immigration cases were being reviewed, but the judge rejected that argument in Friday’s decision.

The possible ripple effect from Gee’s decision could include releasing the illegal immigrant mothers and their children into the community or releasing the children while holding the mothers.

http://www.breitbart.com/california/...ms-in-prisons/

July 26, 2015
By Rick Moran

A US district judge has just invited hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant from Central America to come to the US and make themselves at home.

Judge Dolly Gee issued a ruling that could lead to the release illegal alien children and their parents from detention. The illegals are part of the flood of aliens from Central America who arrived at the border in the last few months.

Reuters:

The U.S. government is violating a 1997 settlement by detaining unauthorized immigrant children, and an order may be forthcoming to require the release of the minors and parents detained with them, a judge in California has ruled.

The ruling on Friday by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee follows an influx across the U.S.-Mexico border of immigrants from Central America.

The flood of immigrants has slowed from peaks last year, but is still high, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said earlier this summer.

The latest ruling on detentions represents a defeat for U.S. immigration authorities, who in court filings argued releasing undocumented immigrant children with their parents encourages families in Central America to undertake the dangerous journey north.

Gee ordered U.S. officials to present arguments for why she should not issue a ruling to require the release of immigrant children and a parent, usually a mother, detained with the minor. The judge indicated a willingness to implement such a ruling within 90 days.

Her 25-page ruling would provide for keeping a parent in custody if the person is a "significant flight risk," and in some cases the decision envisions releasing a child to another family member in the United States.

Detainees have testified to overcrowding in U.S. Customs and Border Protection holding cells where they were detained before being turned over to another agency, Gee wrote.

"Children and their mothers were held for one to three days in rooms with 100 or more unrelated adults and children, which forced children to sleep standing up or not at all," wrote Gee, who is based in Los Angeles.

Her ruling is based on a 1997 class-action settlement in an immigration lawsuit brought years before against federal officials. The agreement required the federal government to minimize detention of immigrant children.

Absolutely nuts. If, as expected, the judge issues a ruling releasing the illegals, that will be the last we see of most of them. They are all "significant flight risks" given that if they see the inside of an immigration court, they will probably be sent back home.

Word of this ruling will start another exodus from Central America, whose citizens are already overwhelming our immigration facilities. Until someone does what's necessary to stem the human flood, overcrowding of our detention facilities will only get worse.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/..._they_can.html

What right does a government have to be referred to as government when they refuse to protect in's citizenry as directed by law but breaks law and court orders to provide for aliens, aliens who often rape and kill members of the citizenry? Whet would we refer to any of them as government

Our bridges are collapsing with traffic upon them. Who is trying to dispose of us? I've seen estimates of necessary infrastructure improvement and repair that dwarfs our national debt. Has Congress even passed any highway bill yet?


Our system is not providing a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Why do we call it government?

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