Immigrant children are arrested at “unsafe and unhealthy sites. The government seeks to cancel the rights

A child appeared rash after four days without allowing him to change his underwear. Another small, boring and overwhelmed by despair, began to hit his head. A minor who suffers from autism and attention deficit disorder has not been allowed to take his medicine, despite his mother’s appeals.

I heard an officer saying about us: “Smell is like Meir -” and another added: “They are the disgust -” a person who was arrested in a statement presented before a federal court said.

Between March and June, the lawyers of the immigrant minors gathered these certificates, and others from young and arrested families, describing environments “with imprisonment” in various parts of the United States.

This is while the Trump government asked a federal judge to end the current protection that guarantees basic rights and services – such as security and health conditions – for children detained in the government.

The administration argues that the protection created in what is known as the Flores settlement agreement (Flores Agreement) encourages immigration and overlap with its ability to implement migrant policies. Judge Dolly Ji, from the California Provincial Court, is expected to issue a decision after August 8 session.

As the applicable agreement continues, minors are held in US office facilities and border protection in the United States “unsafe or healthy”, such as tents, airports and offices, although the agency’s rules indicate that people should not remain under their custody more than 72 hoursAccording to Judicial statement It was presented in June by migrant lawyers.

In addition to Approx application From the US Department of Justice to end the Flores Agreement, the lawyers demanded more supervision of minors in the detention of immigration.

“The biggest fear is that, without flowers, we will lose a decisive line of transparency and accountability,” he said. Sergio PerezCEO of the California -based constitutional law. “Then there is an ideal storm of abuse, violation of rights and the type of treatment that this country should not be allowed.”

Since 1997, and Venus Agreement He has established basic standards and supervision to arrest the migrant palace, after ending the request that spanned a decade in the name of immigrants who are not accompanied by those who have been subjected to ill -treatment, and maintained them in unsafe and unsafe conditions, without reaching medical care.

The agreement bears the name Jenny Leste Flores, a 15 -year -old teenager from El Salvador, who was arrested by the American authorities in the mid -1980s, taking into account nude requests, and hosted them with unknown adult men.

The agreement has set national standards to protect migrant minors in federal reservation, including the requirements of safe and health conditions in detention centers, access to drinking water, adequate food, clothing, family, recreational and educational activities, sanitation, as well as appropriate medical health care.

Among the minors in detention of immigration from children to adolescents.

In 2015, Judge Ji spent that the agreement also applies to minors with adults.

The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of National Security (DHS) – which includes the Customs Protection and Border Protection Office and the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) publicly answering questions about the government’s intention to put an end to the Flores agreement or the conditions in which the detained minor is found.

in Judicial presentation Government lawyers have argued, among other matters, that the agreement is incorrectly appointing immigrant decisions for the courts instead of the White House. Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi Also The Flores Convention “encouraged illegal immigration”, and that Congress and federal agencies have already solved the problems that Flores sought to correct.

The White House spokeswoman, Appiel Jackson, said the ice facilities “have the highest standards.” “They are safe, clean and illegal at home are waiting for the latest procedures to remove.”

Immigration lawyers and researchers They questioned the idea The Flores Agreement strengthens migration, on the pretext that the conditions in the countries of origin are what drives people to migrate.

Trump was not the first president to try to amend or eliminate agreement.

In 2016, the government of President Barack Obama, without success, tried to exempt the Flores agreement accompanied by the accompanying Flores, claiming that the increase in migration from Central America had saturated the regime.

In 2019, after A policy that caused the separation of familiesThe first Trump government announced that it would replace the Flores Agreement with new regulations to expand the arrest of the family and eliminate the time limits. The courts also rejected this plan.

In 2024, the government of President Joe Biden managed to exclude the HHS Ministry of HHS from the agreement, after the Refugee resettlement office adopted some flower standards in its own regulations.

Complaints related to unsafe conditions under the agreement before Trump’s last immigrant attack. A court statement of 2019 said that the lawyers who visited two detention centers in Texas found at least 250 minors – from children to teenagers – some of whom were arrested for about a month. “The children were dirty and wore stained clothes with body fluids, including urine,” the statement said.

According to press reports, this is known at least Seven children died In federal reservation between 2018 and 2019.

In 2023, Anadith Danay Reyes álvarez, 8 -year -old girl, He fell ill and died After nine days in the reservation of the Customs and Border Protection Office in Texas. At the time of their arrest, their fathers handed over the medical records that documented the history of their illness, including sickle cell disease and congenital heart condition. However, frequent sugars were ignored from his mother to receive medical attention in emergency situations.

His family presented to request For death due to negligence in May.

Defenders attribute, in part, to prolonged detention in saturated centers, already increasingly delayed medical care. The authorities said this They expanded medical services Y They confessed to failures After death.

However, with the unprecedented effort of the Trump government to stop and deport migrants – including families – the health threat of minors trapped in these raids, warning of childhood defenders.

Daniel Hatoom, chief supervisor of the supervisor Civil Rights Project in TexasOne of the organizations that submitted the demand for the death of Andith.

Modern reports on the supervisors appointed by the court indicate that problems are like The lack of sufficient medical careMaximum temperatures, Some opportunities Outdoor entertainment, Insufficient food and clothesAnd the impossibility of extinguishing the sleeping lamps.

The cancellation of the Flores Agreement would cancel all external supervision of the detention centers of migrants by observers and lawyers appointed by the court. The public will have to rely exclusively on the government to know the conditions under which the palace.

“Our system requires that there be a kind of government supervision, not only from the Ministry of National Security, but in general,” Hatoom said. “We know that. So I don’t think the Ministry of National Security can oversee itself.”

In the months that followed Trump’s return to the presidency, and after the discounts implemented by the government efficiency management led by Elon Musk, The administration closed The Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Office in the Ministry of National Security, the Citizen Defender Office for Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Interest for the Immigration Detention, which was scheduled to provide an additional layer of supervision.

After a lawsuit, the Trump government reflected the decision and announced that the offices They will remain openAlthough it is not clear how it was affected by policy changes and employee discounts.

Laysia Walsh, lawyer for the legal group Children’s rightsHe said that the Flores agreement itself, or the efforts made to demand the government to meet its requirements, is not stimulated by political ideologies. Fears were also expressed regarding the conditions in these facilities during the Biden administration.

“For me, these are not political issues,” said Walsh. “How do you want our country to treat children? This is what is going on around it. Very simple. I will not tolerate any government to harm children in their care.”