BREAKING: Judge Gee denies Trump admin request to delay Monday deadline to release kids in ICE custody.
She tells ICE they have discretion to release detainees "as this Court has ordered time and again" and states "[t]here will be no family separation without parental consent."
She tells ICE they have discretion to release detainees "as this Court has ordered time and again" and states "[t]here will be no family separation without parental consent."
The Trump administration has "no other move than to release the families," @AmyMaldonadoLaw, who represents the detained families in other federal litigation, tells me.
The Trump administration could release families in ICE detention -- where COVID is spreading -- right now. They haven't done so despite being ordered to let out the kids a month ago by Judge Gee. Monday remains the deadline, as she just reiterated in this new order.
TODAY is the deadline for ICE to release migrant kids detained with their parents due to what Judge Gee says are detention centers "on fire" with COVID.
Judge Gee can't enforce their release, but she reminded the Trump admin it has the power to let them out together right now.
Judge Gee can't enforce their release, but she reminded the Trump admin it has the power to let them out together right now.
"There’s no reason other than cruelty" to keep the families locked up beyond today's deadline, according to a former ICE official I spoke with last week for this story. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
According to attorneys for the kids, no sign today of any wide-scale release of migrant families from ICE detention, despite a court-ordered deadline. Here's why, with @JuliaEAinsley. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/j…
