Judge grants Biden admin’s request to terminate agreement granting protections to migrant children

A federal judge has granted the Biden administration’s request to repeal a 1997 legal agreement, known as the Flores settlement, that required the government to place immigrant youths in a licensed state facility before releasing them to a parent or guardian. The settlement, in a suit filed in 1985 by Jenny Flores, a 15-year-old girl who had fled El Salvador, requires immigration officials to place unaccompanied minors in the “least restrictive setting available” and release them “without unnecessary delay” to a parent, adult relative or guardian, while immigration courts decide...