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Asylum-seekers walk to a U.S. Border Patrol van after crossing the nearby border with Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 26, 2023, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. Migrants continue to arrive to desert campsites along California's border with Mexico, as they await processing. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

Judge rules DHS must deliver better treatment to illegal immigrants awaiting arrest

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this March 30, 2021, photo, minors are shown inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool) ** FILE **

‘Frequent lice outbreaks’: Kids get Zumba classes, lack underwear, soap at migrant camps

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 23, 2020, file photo, protesters wave signs in front of the Hampton Inn hotel in McAllen, Texas. The Trump administration has sharply increased its use of hotels to detain immigrant children as young as 1 before expelling them from the United States during the coronavirus pandemic despite facing outcry from lawmakers and human-rights advocates. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File)

Judge orders US to stop detaining migrant children in hotels

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

A Hampton Inn is shown Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in Phoenix. The Trump administration is detaining immigrant children as young as 1 in hotels before deporting them to their home countries. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show a private contractor hired by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking children to three Hampton Inns in Arizona and Texas under restrictive border policies implemented during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Judge orders DHS to stop holding illegal immigrant families in hotels

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018 file photo, an asylum-seeking boy from Central America runs down a hallway after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego. The Trump administration will make a case in court to end a longstanding settlement governing detention conditions for immigrant children, including how long they can be held by the government. A hearing is scheduled before a federal judge Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, in Los Angeles over the so-called Flores settlement. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Judge blocks Trump rules for detained migrant kids

By AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018 file photo, an asylum-seeking boy from Central America runs down a hallway after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego. The Trump administration will make a case in court to end a longstanding settlement governing detention conditions for immigrant children, including how long they can be held by the government. A hearing is scheduled before a federal judge Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, in Los Angeles over the so-called Flores settlement. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

The Latest: Judge to block rules for detained migrant kids

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In this July 12, 2019 file photo, men stand in a U.S. Immigration and Border Enforcement detention center in McAllen, Texas, during a visit by Vice President Mike Pence. Immigration lawyers say a pattern has repeated itself for several weeks in migrant detention facilities along the border. Immigrants are being detained in packed cells only to be transferred out within hours once the government is sued on their behalf. (Josh Dawsey/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Judge blocks Trump attempt to close illegal immigrant family ‘loophole’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - This March 1, 2018 file photo from video provided by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) shows U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles. Gee has ruled that the U.S. government must seek consent before administering psychotropic drugs to immigrant children held at a Texas facility. She issued a ruling Monday, July 30, 2018 that the federal government violated portions of a longstanding settlement governing the treatment of immigrant children caught crossing the border. (NAPABA via AP, File)

Judge says US must seek consent to medicate immigrant kids

By AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says federal officials are making "substantial changes" to end the long-term detention of migrant families who are being held mainly at two large facilities in Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Justice Department bid to change catch-and-release ruling rejected by judge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Shoes and a teddy bear, brought by a group of U.S. mayors, are piled up outside a holding facility for immigrant children in Tornillo, Texas, near the Mexican border, Thursday, June 21, 2018. Mayors from more than a dozen U.S. cities including New York and Los Angeles gathered near the holding facility to call for the immediate reunification of immigrant children with their families. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Feds ask judge to overturn ‘Flores’ ruling; Trump blames ruling for family separations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the National Sheriffs' Association convention in New Orleans, Monday, June 18, 2018, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) **FILE**

Donald Trump orders Jeff Sessions to challenge ‘Flores’ family-immigration policy in court

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This Friday, June 8, 2018 photo shows the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, Wash. The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project reported that as many as 120 asylum seekers had been transferred to this facility. Washington state's governor says six children were brought to a Seattle foster care facility after federal immigration authorities separated them from their families at the border. (AP Photo/Sally Ho)

Court-appointed monitor says children being treated well in border detention facility

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Cristian, a 6-year-old immigrant who entered the United States from Guatemala illegally with his mother, is staying at a respite house in San Antonio. (AP Photo)

Illegal immigrants with children released quickly under federal judge’s ruling

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio, in this July 7, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Judge orders illegal immigrant families quickly released

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In a court filing last week, Border Patrol Deputy Chief Ronald Vitiello said the agency saw a rise in illegal immigrant families crossing into the U.S. in July, which was surprising as it breaks the usual pattern, in which a decrease occurs as the late-summer heat makes that time of year more difficult for an immigrant's journey. (Associated Press)

Immigration campaign tells Central Americans not to jump border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally wait at a bus station after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio, in this Tuesday, July 7, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

DHS admits new surge of illegal immigrant families

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in Granjeno, Texas, June 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) ** FILE **

Judge rules illegal immigrant parents with children should be released

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times