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 edge 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 Assurance 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of the Flores decree setting up a viable battle before the federal appeals court and ultimately the Supreme Court The outdated Flores consent decree was implemented as a stopgap measure almost years ago but in newest years has directly incentivized illegal immigration at our southern frontier 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 explained Attorney General Pam Bondi in a report to Fox News FEDERAL JUDGE BUCKS TRUMP ADMIN DELAYS DISMISSAL OF OF MS- LEADER'S CASEDOJ leaders also tell Fox News the idea is to put the power back into the hands of elected officers in Washington rather than a single federal judge in California In the filing the DOJ says the ruling body is moving to terminate the FSA entirely 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 plan by one district court located more than miles from any international margin it is time for this episode to end More from the filing In light of the essential 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 society interest TRUMP DOJ DROPS BIDEN-ERA LEGAL CHALLENGE TO TEXAS TERRITORY LINE MEASURE 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 act 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 guidelines 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 only cannot be During the years that this Court has controlled federal procedures 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 frontier including large groups of aliens who voluntarily surrendered to Territory line Patrol surrenders orchestrated by traffickers the demographics of aliens arriving at the edge have shifted to include significantly higher numbers from countries outside the Western Hemisphere and higher numbers of children a global pandemic necessitated the governing body s utilization of its expulsion authority to protect residents robustness and the subsequent lifting of the plan led to an upheaval in immigration guidelines 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 approach 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