Flores Agreement

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WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 21: Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan holds a news conference to announce new rules about how migrant children and families are treated in federal custody at the Ronald Reagan Building August 21, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Indefinite detentions?

A new announcement from the Department of Homeland Security has made public the Administration’s…

August 21st, 2019

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Matthew Albence testifies before the House Appropriations Committee's Homeland Security Subcommittee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill July 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. Albence testified that the increase in the number of people illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has stretched his agency's budget to the breaking point. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

ICE Director on Hot Seat

August 4th, 2019

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 11: Senior Advisor to the President, Stephen Miller (C) looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a round-table discussion on border security and safe communities with State, local, and community leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 11, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

3 anti-asylum measures

April 10th, 2019

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Immigrant children, many of whom have been separated from their parents under a new "zero-tolerance" policy by the Trump administration, are being housed in tents next to the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, on June 18, 2018. Mike Blake/Reuters.

Immigrant children in tents

October 4th, 2018

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Undocumented immigrants wait in a detention center at the Border Patrol detention center in Nogales, Arizona (Reuters/Jeff Topping).

DHS vs. Flores

September 7th, 2018