U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee heard the arguments at a hearing in Los Angeles on Friday to consider Biden’s request to partially lift that agreement. The government says the new rules would better serve the children.
Migrant children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. in February 2019.
The Biden administration last month asked the court to partially lift the rules, weeks after the U.S. Health and Human Services Department published, effective July 1, that Secretary Xavier Becerra said will set “clear standards for the care and treatment of unaccompanied children.
In 2014, a surge of unaccompanied children at the border brought heightened scrutiny of the federal government. Since then, arrests of children traveling alone at the Mexican border have increased, and last year topped 130,000. The health department says its new rules meet, and in some ways exceed, standards set forth in the court settlement.
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