Trump DOJ moves to dissolve Flores decree which governs detention of unaccompanied minors in the U.S.

In a motion filed in federal court in Los Angeles the Trump DOJ is moving to dissolve the Flores Consent Decree Attorney General Pam Bondi maintains the decree is incentivizing illegal immigration at the southern dividing line The Flores decree has governed the detention and release of migrant children since The motion filed by the DOJ and jointed by HHS and the Department of Homeland Protection asks a federal court in southern California to dissolve the decree BIDEN-APPOINTED FEDERAL JUDGE KEEPS BLOCKING TRUMP ADMIN FROM NIXING FUNDING FOR LAWYERS FOR MIGRANT CHILDRENHowever the motion to terminate the Flores decree will be heard at a July hearing before US District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles Judge Gee has presided over the matter for years and it is unlikely she will agree to get rid of the Flores decree setting up a practicable battle before the federal appeals court and ultimately the Supreme Court The outdated Flores consent decree was implemented as a stopgap measure almost years ago but in latest years has directly incentivized illegal immigration at our southern confines Congress and various federal agencies have already solved the problems that Flores was designed to fix and this consent decree is now an unacceptable restriction on our America-first immigration agenda stated Attorney General Pam Bondi in a report to Fox News FEDERAL JUDGE BUCKS TRUMP ADMIN DELAYS DISMISSAL OF OF MS- LEADER'S CASEDOJ administrators also tell Fox News the idea is to put the power back into the hands of elected functionaries in Washington rather than a single federal judge in California In the filing the DOJ says the executive is moving to terminate the FSA fully and with respect to all Defendants and to dissolve the Court s injunction of DHS s regulations for apprehension processing care and custody of alien minors After years of litigation and years of judicial control over a critical element of U S immigration framework by one district court located more than miles from any international limit it is time for this occurrence to end More from the filing In light of the substantial changes in circumstances since this Court entered the FSA years ago including the promulgation of regulations incorporating the goals of the FSA and Supreme Court precedent that is inconsistent with continuing such a long-term decree further continuation of the FSA is no longer equitable or in the general interest TRUMP DOJ DROPS BIDEN-ERA LEGAL CHALLENGE TO TEXAS DEMARCATION PRECAUTION LAWThis Court entered the FSA as a consent decree in and amended it in December The FSA has governed the care and custody of unaccompanied alien children UACs ever since notwithstanding intervening regulation by the U S Congress and agency regulations In this Court expanded the FSA to accompanied children see Flores v Lynch F d th Cir even though it is obvious from the FSA s terms that the parties did not contemplate their inclusion Thus as to accompanied children the national plan has long been set by a district court and not the President or Congress notwithstanding that the consent decree providing the basis for district-court supervision does not claim to regulate this class of aliens That totally cannot be During the years that this Court has controlled federal plan regarding the custody of alien children who are in the United States without immigration status enormous cardinal changes have occurred surges of aliens have entered the U S in between ports of entry across the southwest edge including large groups of aliens who voluntarily surrendered to Demarcation Patrol surrenders orchestrated by traffickers the demographics of aliens arriving at the frontier have shifted to include significantly higher numbers from countries outside the Western Hemisphere and higher numbers of children a global pandemic necessitated the administration s utilization of its expulsion authority to protect inhabitants healthcare and the subsequent lifting of the procedures led to an upheaval in immigration agenda for over two years The Executive has not been able to react fully and meaningfully to these changes because the FSA has ossified federal immigration protocol Successive administrations have tried unsuccessfully to free themselves from the strictures of the consent decree and this Court s gloss on it But detention of juvenile aliens continues to be as it has been for more than a generation dominated by the strictures of a agreement