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A decide on Saturday quickly blocked the Trump administration from sending underage migrants to grownup detention facilities as soon as they flip 18.
U.S. District Choose Rudolph Contreras stated the brand new coverage violates an order he issued in 2021 that instructed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to not ship any migrant to an ICE detention heart after they flip 18.
Underage migrants aren’t held in ICE detention facilities. They’re held in facilities run by the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to ICE for remark.
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U.S. District Choose Rudolph Contreras stated the brand new coverage violates an order he issued in 2021 that directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to not ship any migrant to an ICE detention heart after they flip 18. (AP Photograph/Erin Hooley)
The Trump administration is now providing teen migrants a $2,500 stipend to go away america voluntarily, based on a number of reviews citing a letter despatched Friday by the Division of Well being and Human Providers’ (HHS) Workplace of Refugee Resettlement to shelters housing migrant youngsters.
A number of immigration rights teams had requested Contreras to intervene within the submitting made simply after midnight Saturday morning.
Final month, one other decide blocked the Trump administration from deporting sure Guatemalan minors to their dwelling nation after the federal government walked again claims that it meant to reunite the youths with their mother and father.
Choose Timothy Kelly, who issued the order, stated the Trump administration couldn’t present that any mother and father wished their youngsters again.
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Immigrants line up within the eating corridor at a brand new U.S. authorities holding heart for migrant youngsters in Carrizo Springs, Texas, July 9, 2019. (AP Photograph/Eric Homosexual, File)
“That rationalization crumbled like a home of playing cards a couple of week later,” Kelly wrote in his order. “There is no such thing as a proof earlier than the Court docket that the mother and father of those youngsters sought their return.”
Michelle Lapointe, a lawyer for the American Immigration Council, one of many organizations concerned within the submitting, informed The Related Press, “All of those are items of the identical common coverage to coerce immigrant youth into giving up their proper to hunt safety in america.”
Migrant youngsters within the U.S. are sometimes launched into foster care or to relations so long as they’re not thought of a flight danger or a hazard.
A federal agent sits in a automobile outdoors a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement constructing Sept. 24, 2025, in Broadview, Ailing. (AP Photograph/Erin Hooley)
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Attorneys for a few of the migrants stated they heard that ICE was telling shelters that youngsters turning 18 can be taken to ICE detention facilities even when they already had plans to be launched and that they may solely be launched on a case-by-case foundation for “pressing humanitarian causes” or “important public profit.”
Fox Information’ Ashley Oliver and Michael Dorgan and The Related Press contributed to this report.
