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A 1997 court-supervised consent decree that established national standards for the detention, treatment, placement and prompt release of immigrant children in federal custody.
The Flores Settlement Agreement, originating from litigation in the 1980s and formalized in 1997, set nationwide standards for the detention, release and treatment of immigrant children and required t...
’s detention of young children during has risen sharply: reporting shows thousands of minors were booked into family detention in 2025 and that the daily population of children held by ICE climbed sev...
is a 1997 court-supervised consent decree that established national standards for the detention, treatment, placement and prompt release of immigrant children in federal custody, including requirement...
During the Obama administration the expansion of family detention in 2014–2016 prompted a cascade of legal challenges, court rulings that curtailed aspects of the policy, and sustained congressional p...
Federal courts have repeatedly constrained ICE’s ability to separate families and detain children, most notably through injunctions and settlements tied to the Flores agreement and the ACLU’s Ms. L. v...