Children: Court Order and Settlement

children: The Department of Justice asked Gee to alter a 1997 settlement after the president reversed a policy of separating migrant children from their parents that caused an international uproar when the emotional scenes of families being split up were caught on camera, according to CTV. The government wanted to alter the settlement so it could detain families together long-term. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee said the federal government had failed to present new evidence to support revising a court order that limits the detention of children who crossed the border illegally. Gee called the government's request a cynical attempt to shift responsibility to the court for over 20 years of Congressional inaction and ill-considered executive action that have led to the current stalemate. She said the application to change the agreement in the case named for lead plaintiff Jenny Flores was procedurally improper and wholly without merit. Gee said the government's had sought to replow the same familiar territory it had three years ago when she rejected a similar effort by the Obama administration. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.