A Ninth Circuit panel has ruled that the government needs
to abide by its 1997 agreement to grant immigrant children bond hearings—for
instance, the nine-year-old who was held in detention for 18 months. And now
advocates are suing Miami-Dade County for holding a U.S. citizen overnight on
an ICE detainer. (It was actually the second time immigration authorities mistook this person for an undocumented immigrant.)—TPOI editor
Detained Immigrant Children Are Entitled to Hearings, Court
Rules
By Miriam Jordan, New York Times
July 5, 2017
LOS ANGELES — Undocumented immigrant children detained by
federal authorities are entitled to
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| Border Patrol arresting kids. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images |
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled that immigration authorities
must abide by a 1997 legal settlement that established a policy for the
detention, release and treatment of minors in immigration custody.
That agreement, named the Flores settlement after the
teenage girl who brought the original case, stipulated that a child in
deportation proceedings be afforded a bond hearing before an immigration
judge.[…]
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U.S. Citizen Detained by Mistake Sues Miami-Dade Over
Immigration Enforcement
By Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times
July 5, 2017
Immigration lawyers in Miami-Dade County are challenging its
practice of jailing people on behalf of federal immigration authorities, in a
case that could test the Trump administration’s attempts to pressure so-called
sanctuary cities and counties.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Federal District Court in
Miami, lawyers representing a local resident, Garland Creedle, argued that the
county had violated his Fourth Amendment right against unlawful seizure.[…]
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