Trump administration heads to court, seeking to hold immigrant families in detention
by Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times
Jun 21, 2018
2 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Justice Department officials asked a federal judge Thursday to change the rules on holding immigrant children in custody, saying they needed more flexibility to implement President Donald Trump's executive order to detain families of immigrants caught crossing the border.
A legal settlement the government reached two decades ago interferes with the president's order because it requires
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