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Judges differ with Trump administration on conditions for immigrant minors
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of San Francisco Chronicle/ (San Francisco's leading newspaper)


San Francisco Chronicle/ (San Francisco's leading newspaper), June 18, 2019
Posted: June 28th, 2019
https://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Judges-differ-wit...

The Trump administration ... argues it is not legally required to provide [immigrant minors] with such items as soap, toothbrushes and sleeping accommodations. [This] drew an incredulous response from federal appeals court judges Tuesday at a hearing in San Francisco. The administration is appealing a federal judges June 2017 ruling that immigration officials were violating a 1997 court settlement requiring unaccompanied minors in federal custody to be kept in safe and sanitary conditions before being released. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee of Los Angeles found that youths held in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas were being denied basic necessities and appointed a monitor to oversee compliance. Gee found evidence that minors were kept overnight in crowded, chilly rooms, sleeping on concrete floors with aluminum-foil blankets with the lights kept on all night. The administration denied violating the settlement and argued in court papers that nothing in the 1997 agreement required officials to provide minors, in all situations, with sleeping accommodations, toothbrushes, toothpaste, showers, soap, towels and dry clothes, as long as the facilities were safe and sanitary. A panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was clearly unconvinced. Its within everybodys common understanding that if you dont have a toothbrush, you dont have soap, you dont have a blanket, those are not safe and sanitary, Judge A. Wallace Tashima told Justice Department lawyer Sarah Fabian.

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