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19 States And DC Sue Administration Over Plan To Detain Migrant Children Indefinitely

The states are taking legal action to prevent the Trump administration from dropping out of an agreement on how long it can hold children in federal facilities and under what standards.

Nineteen states and the District of Columbia are the Trump administration over its plan to pull out of a decades-old court settlement that governs the care of migrant children in federal

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