Federal Judge Orders Government To Seek Consent Before Medicating Migrant Children
The court ruled the government must abide by a decades-old court settlement affecting the detention of migrant children.
A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the Trump administration to seek consent before administering psychotropic drugs to immigrant children held in a facility in Texas.
U.S. District Judge Dolly which governs the treatment of detained immigrant children. There are more than 10,000 minors in federal custody. The vast majority of them arrived at the southern border unaccompanied from Central America long before the current controversy over separated families created by the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy. The settlement required the government to hold youths in the least restrictive setting possible.
