Judge orders release of families
SAN ANTONIO — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to release from detention centers immigrant children and their mothers caught entering the U.S. illegally from Mexico.
In a filing late Friday, California U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee rejected the government’s request that she reconsider her ruling and ordered it to implement remedies by Oct. 23, saying that the children and their mothers must be released without unnecessary delay.
Gee says the government remains in violation of a long-standing legal agreement that bans immigrant children from being held in secure unlicensed facilities.