In response to a federal court order, the Trump administration announced a new policy with regard to migrant families on Friday. The administration will now hold families together for longer than 20 days.
The Trump administration has been widely criticized by opponents and allies over children being separated from their parents by U.S. authorities at the border. President Trump signed an executive order on June 20 that ended the policy, but in his remarks said the government was going to “keep the families together. I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated.”
To do this, however, would require modifications to a decades-old settlement called the Flores agreement, which limits the amount of time children can be held in federal detention to 20 days.
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