Activists asked that the federal government be held in contempt over conditions at border stations in Texas after 'appalling' conditions were reported.
from a border station in Clint, Texas, in the wake of media reports about conditions at the facility.
The advocacy groups asked the court to find the government in contempt of a June 2017 court order that held that children continued to be held longer than 20 days in defiance of a 1997 settlement, known as the Flores Agreement, that limited how long and under what conditions the United States could detain immigrant children.
Citing what they called the"starkly unsanitary and unsafe conditions" at Texas border facilities, the organizations asked for an emergency order requiring that the government bring the facilities into compliance with the 1997 settlement and that affected children be promptly released to their parents or other close relatives.
It also asked that all El Paso and Rio Grande Valley facilities be inspected immediately and that independent doctors be allowed to examine children held in them. "With each passing day, more hospitalizations are occurring and more lives are at risk," according to the motion, which said immediate action was needed to"end this health and welfare crisis, and prevent more illness and child deaths at the border."
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