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hundreds of immigrants Children According to the new court filing, they were detained for longer than the limit set by the court, some of them for more than five months.
lawyer for prisoners Thrown light on GovernmentSelf-confession about long detention period for immigrants ChildrenContaminated food, lack of access to medical care or adequate legal counsel were reported by families and monitors at federal facilities, as well as a renewed reliance on hotels for detention.
The report, filed late Monday from lawyers in a civil lawsuit initiated in 1985, led to the creation of court-ordered standards monitoring in 1997 and ultimately established a 20-day limit on detention. trump The administration is trying to terminate the agreement.
A December 1 report from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said nearly 400 immigrant children were detained for longer than the 20-day limit from August to September.
He told the court that the problem is widespread and is not limited to any area or facility. The primary factors prolonging their release were categorized into three groups: transportation delays, medical needs, and legal processing.
The children’s legal advocates argued that those reasons did not constitute a valid justification for delaying their release. Through interviews with families of detainees, advocates identified five children held in detention for up to 168 days. The report did not say how old those children were.
ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
The use of hotels for temporary detention is permitted by a federal court for up to 72 hours, but lawyers questioned the government’s figures, saying they don’t fully explain why children were held in hotel rooms for more than three days.
Conditions in detention facilities remain a matter of continuing concern after the family detention site in Delhi. texasReopened this year.
Advocates documented the injuries children suffered and lack of access to adequate medical care. A child’s eye injury was bleeding which was not seen by the medical Employee for two days. According to the petition filed in the court, another child’s leg was broken when a staff member dropped the pole of a volleyball net. “Medical staff told a family whose child had food poisoning to return only if the child vomited eight times,” the advocates wrote in their response.
“The kids have diarrhea, heartburn, stomach aches, and they give them food that literally has worms in it,” a family member who lives in a facility in Dili wrote in a declaration submitted to the court. Another wrote that they were given “broccoli and cauliflower that were moldy and had worms in them.”
Chief US District Judge Dolly Gee of the Central District of California is scheduled to hold a hearing on the reports next week, where she could decide whether the court needs to intervene.