Jenny L Flores v. Edwin Meese

  1. March 29, 2021

    ICE Says It Will Release Migrant Families In 15 Days Or Less

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the California federal court overseeing a long-running class action over detention conditions for migrant children that it will release detained families within 15 days, a commitment that counsel for the minors called toothless.

  2. March 08, 2021

    ICE Tells Court It's Winding Down Long-Term Family Detention

    The Biden administration is planning to close down the nation's three family detention centers in a move away from long-term family detention in the United States, according to a recent court filing.

  3. December 21, 2020

    Top Immigration Cases Of 2020: Year In Review

    The federal courts considered a mountain of immigration litigation this past year, from the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling on protections for young unauthorized immigrants to a flurry of cases challenging immigration detention and visa restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  4. September 22, 2020

    Feds Can't Delay Order To Stop Putting Migrant Kids In Hotels

    A California federal judge on Monday shot down the government's request to stay her earlier order barring immigration officials from detaining asylum-seeking migrant children in hotels, saying the government made no substantive new arguments in its application while demonstrating "bewildering logic."

  5. September 04, 2020

    ICE Must Stop Holding Migrant Kids In Hotels, Judge Says

    A Los Angeles federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to end the practice of holding migrant children in hotels while arranging their swift deportation — a practice that was implemented at the border as part of an expulsion program to curb the spread of COVID-19. 

  6. August 27, 2020

    ICE Should Stop Detaining Solo Kids In Hotels, Monitor Says

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's practice of holding migrants in hotels while arranging their swift deportation isn't "fully responsive to the safe and sanitary" needs of children, a court-appointed monitor has reported, recommending that unaccompanied minors be excluded from hotel detention entirely.

  7. August 24, 2020

    ICE Says It'd Rather Keep Families Together — In Detention

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told a California federal judge that it's made efforts to comply with orders to release migrant children from immigration detention, but that it won't move forward with one that would separate detained families.

  8. August 17, 2020

    ICE Isn't Freeing Migrant Kids Despite Order, Flores Attys Say

    Despite a court order, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement still isn't releasing migrant children from detention or informing detained parents that they have the right to have their children be released, attorneys for the children have told a California federal judge.

  9. August 07, 2020

    Calif. Judge Scolds Feds Over Stalled Release Of Migrant Kids

    A California federal judge scolded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday for "squandering" the month she gave to release migrant children from detention, saying the government's legal team is acting like they don't "understand how litigation works."

  10. August 05, 2020

    Feds Defend Hotel Detention Of Minors Amid Pandemic

    The federal government has defended its detention of unaccompanied migrant children in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic, telling a California federal judge that a decades-old settlement over the treatment of minors doesn't apply while they are readied for deportation under a public health order.