Judge outlaws director review step in immigrant child cases
Source: Associated Press
Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
Updated 5:48 pm, Wednesday, June 27, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) The government acted unlawfully by requiring unaccompanied immigrant children to remain detained until an agency's director personally approved their release, a process that delayed their freedom and caused suffering, a judge ruled Wednesday in ordering an end to the practice.
U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty in Manhattan said in a written ruling that a mid-2017 rule change by the newly appointed director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement that required the director's personal approval of release decisions was wrong.
He said he "cannot turn a blind eye" to suffering and irreparable injury caused by the policy.
Crotty also granted class-action status to the legal action brought by civil rights lawyers on behalf of one child.
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Judges like this are exactly what Trump is trying to get rid of.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)The rules of the Senate do not allow it.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Block everything. All legislation coming from the GOP should be blocked anyway; it's all evil. By gumming up the Senate, confirmations are slowed down as a side-effect. Since all GOP nominees are also evil, slowing them down is a good thing.