Administration Should Abandon Policy of Detaining Children and Parents Following Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling

New York City—Human Rights First today renewed its calls on the Obama Administration to abandon its policy of detaining parents and children following a ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that supports a lower court’s ruling that children should not be detained in unlicensed and secure detention centers. Today’s ruling upholds a 2015 ruling that the government’s detention policy violated the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement (Flores), which governs the standards for the detention, release, and treatment of minors in immigration