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Los Angeles – 08 August 2025
1. Exterior of the courthouse
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergio Perez, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law:
"Today we’re at the Federal District Courthouse here in downtown Los Angeles, because the Trump administration has moved to terminate a decades long settlement agreement that guarantees basic protections for jailed immigrant children in immigrant prisons across the country. My organization along with co-counsel is here because we oppose that motion to terminate and because we have also filed a motion to enforce provisions of that agreement related to the detention and treatment of children by the Customs and Border Patrol throughout the country in spaces not fit for human habitation."
3. An emblem outside the courthouse
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergio Perez, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law:
"The Flores Agreement has existed for decades because the federal government has decided to jail immigrant children throughout that time and has not cared for them."
5. People walk from the courthouse
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergio Perez, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law:
"This agreement is more important than ever and without it, children will be treated cruelly and we will be less aware of it because the agreement also guarantees access to these jails and prisons for co-counsel organizations such as the one that I lead."
7. Exterior of the courthouse
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergio Perez, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law:
"I believe that Judge Gee will see justice and fact and move in favor of the agreement and co-counsel. She is aware because she has lived with this case as a judge for 10 years that the plight of these children has not sufficiently improved to the degree that would require the termination of the agreement. So I certainly hope that she will not terminate the agreement and that we will continue to be able to care for the rights of these children and fight for their well-being."
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STORYLINE:
Government attorneys have told a judge that a decades-old policy on protections for immigrant children is inhibiting the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
On Friday, the administration asked U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee to dissolve the policy, which limits how long children can be held and requires safe conditions.
Gee, who oversees the Flores Agreement, expressed skepticism. Advocates for immigrant children want the protections to remain, citing poor conditions in detention centers.
The Flores Agreement, established in 1997, governs the conditions for all immigrant children in U.S. custody. The Biden administration successfully pushed to partially end the agreement last year.
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