[U] DHS / ICE Annual [Non-] Compliance Report -- Under Flores Settlement: One In Four Kids Held Beyond 20 Days...

UPDATED July 5, 2019: This morning, the court ordered CBP's juvenile coordinator to supplement his report, by July 5, 2019, thus: ". . .The Court has reviewed the Juvenile Coordinator Annual Report, filed on July 1, 2019, detailing Juvenile Coordinator Henry Moak’s observations of Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) facilities across the Southwest Border during the period from June 1, 2018 to May 30, 2019. [Doc. # 583-1.] On June 26, 2019, Plaintiffs filed an Ex Parte Application regarding the conditions of certain Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) facilities in the El Paso and Rio Grande Valley Sectors. [Doc. # 572.] In support of their Ex Parte Application, Plaintiffs submitted numerous declarations of Class Members, Class Members’ relatives, and other persons that describe the conditions of these facilities. [Doc. ## 580-1, 580-2, 580-3, 580-4, 580-5, 580-6.] The Court requests that, by no later than July 15, 2019, CBP’s Juvenile Coordinator file a supplemental report that addresses his visit to the El Paso and Rio Grande Valley Sectors on July 1 and 2, 2019. He shall detail his findings and, if he found any instances of non-compliance, what measures he has undertaken to address them, with particular attention to any of those pertaining to shortcomings in medical care. IT IS SO ORDERED. . . ." [End, updated portion.]

First -- the basics: the final Flores settlement order provides that all children must be moved to more appropriate facilities [state licensed child care providers, with appropriate deveolpmental opportunities -- education, recreation, etc. -- and in entirely unlocked facilities], or released released to parents, within 20 days at the outside. That is NOT happening in many cases.

So, in the continuing mud-slide of bad news about how Trump's people are running the incarceration of the migrants / undocumented / asylum seekers, we now learn -- via an overnight filing in the Flores class action settlement monitoring efforts, in LA -- in the able USDC Judge Gee's courtroom, that about one in four kids are detained in non-compliant facilities for more than 20 days. That's over 7,700 children.

Due to the "good trouble" AOC [and many others] have been willing to get deeply into, we now know that that means young children -- and adults -- are being forced to drink from toilets, not be allowed to eat or sleep on a normal schedule, and are not provided bedding, soap or toothpaste. [I've attached only the eight page summary, but on request, I will link to the 78 page full report. The worst of it is of course, all ready well-documented, in my earlier posts -- of court filings and oral arguments.]

In sum, this is less a compliance report -- and much more an ICE NON-compliance report:

. . . .7,711 children were held beyond twenty days. . . .

These matters -- all of them -- need to appear as laser light shows, on the sides of all buildings near Trump's evening ode to himself, on the National Mall -- should it actually be pulled off. Ugh.

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