{"id":2438489,"date":"2025-05-23T15:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-seeks-end-to-flores-decree-long-used-to-push-open-borders\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:50:52","slug":"trump-seeks-end-to-flores-decree-long-used-to-push-open-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-seeks-end-to-flores-decree-long-used-to-push-open-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump seeks end to Flores decree long used to push &#8216;open borders&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-seeks-end-to-flores-decree-long-used-to-push-open-borders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2438489&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Trump management is making a renewed effort to dismantle the Flores Settlement Agreement, a legal framework that has regulated the detention and processing of migrant children since 1997. This action is based on claims that the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >agreement incentivizes illegal immigration<\/a> and hinders effective border security. The Department of Justice, along with the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, filed a motion in federal court seeking to terminate this decree, arguing it has become outdated and has improperly expanded in scope, applying to families with children rather than just unaccompanied minors as originally intended.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue that revoking the Flores agreement would strip away legal protections for migrant children, while supporters maintain it encourages family separations at the border. The administration points to new developments in immigration law that they believe render the agreement unnecessary. A hearing on this motion is scheduled for July 18,and its outcome could considerably impact U.S. immigration policy. The administration aims to restructure its approach to border enforcement as part of a broader strategy for its second term in office.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump seeks end to Flores decree long used to push liberal &lsquo;open borders&rsquo; agenda<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2123972\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump administration<\/a> is renewing a push to dismantle the decades-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Flores Settlement Agreement<\/a>, arguing in a court filing Thursday that the policy has become one of the biggest incentives for illegal immigration and a roadblock to effective border enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Justice<\/a>, joined by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/homeland-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Departments of Homeland Security<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/health-and-human-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Health and Human Services<\/a>, asked a federal court in Los Angeles to terminate the consent decree, which has governed the detention and release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">migrant children<\/a> since 1997. The motion contends the Flores agreement is outdated, unworkable, and has &ldquo;ossified&rdquo; U.S. immigration policy by forcing the government to either release families en masse or separate them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3420845\/new-hampshire-governor-signs-bill-banning-sanctuary-communities\/\">New Hampshire governor signs bill banning &#8216;sanctuary&#8217; communities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3420248\/judge-blocks-trump-administration-revoke-foreign-students-legal-status\/\">Judge blocks Trump administration from rescinding foreign students&#8217; legal status<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3419246\/gold-card-website-for-immigrants-seeking-permanent-us-residency-to-debut-next-week\/\">&#8216;Gold card&#8217; website for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gold-card-website-for-immigrants-seeking-permanent-us-residency-to-debut-next-week-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"\u2018Gold card\u2019 website for immigrants seeking permanent US residency to debut next week - Washington Examiner\">immigrants seeking permanent<\/a> US residency to debut next week<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this March 30, 2021, file photo, minors lie 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, in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo\/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;For years, the Flores consent decree has been a tool of the Left to promote an open borders agenda,&rdquo; a senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/homeland-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">DHS<\/a> official told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;It is long overdue for a single district in California to stop managing the Executive Branch&rsquo;s immigration functions. The Trump administration is committed to restoring common sense to our immigration system.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After the filing appeared on the public court docket, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-child-migrants-protection-flores-trump-dhs-be793b0c864bd9a7ff593356a6f01f28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-he-guilty-of-sexual-misconduct-depends-on-his-political-party\/\" title=\"Is He Guilty Of Sexual Misconduct? Depends On His Political Party.\">major media outlets<\/a><\/a> such as the <em>Associated Press <\/em>characterized the move as a plan to &ldquo;end protections for immigrant children in federal custody.&rdquo; But in reality, the result of ending the Flores agreement could lower the number of alien families separated after entering the custody of Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p>The motion to dissolve Flores is set to be considered at a July 18 hearing before U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee, who has presided over the case for years and previously blocked the Trump administration&rsquo;s efforts to detain families longer than 20 days and avoid separating children from their parents in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The effort marks President Donald Trump&rsquo;s most direct attempt yet to unwind the settlement, which he also tried to terminate during the latter part of his first term, which the courts blocked in 2019. However, with new regulatory standards and a conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">judiciary<\/a> reshaped during Trump&rsquo;s first four years, administration officials believe the timing is now right.<\/p>\n<p>The administration&rsquo;s 67-page <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cacd.45170\/gov.uscourts.cacd.45170.1567.0_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">filing<\/a> points to several changes in law and policy since the settlement was enacted, including the Homeland Security Act and the implementation of federal standards of care for migrant children. Officials argue that these developments render the settlement unnecessary and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ further claims that the courts have improperly expanded the Flores decree over time, especially by applying it to families with children rather than its original intent to be targeted for Unaccompanied Alien Children, a class of aliens that has been on a steep decline since Trump came back into office.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This class has included millions of people over the years. The FSA&mdash;originally designed to address a very specific set of narrow circumstances&mdash;has been interpreted to address the custody of all minors at all stages,&rdquo; the government wrote in court filings Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative border hawks have long blamed Flores for the rise in family migration, pointing out that smugglers often exploit the agreement&rsquo;s 20-day detention limit for children to secure quick release for entire families. Data cited in the administration&rsquo;s motion show nearly a million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">family unit<\/a> encounters at the southern border in each of the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal immigration attorneys sharply disagree, with one group filing an opposition brief claiming the administration seeks to &ldquo;strip migrant children of their last remaining legal protections.&rdquo; But critics say those attorneys, many of whom receive taxpayer-funded fees through court orders, are simply trying to preserve their influence over immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>DOJ officials say the legal landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years. They argue that the 2022 Supreme Court decision in <em>Garland v. Aleman Gonzalez<\/em> undercuts the court&rsquo;s jurisdiction to enforce Flores in its current form &mdash; a key pillar of their legal strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After 40 years of litigation and 28 years of judicial control over a critical element of U.S. immigration policy &hellip; it is time for this case to end,&rdquo; the government wrote.<\/p>\n<p>If the court agrees, the Trump administration could implement long-term family detention while still keeping families connected and potentially avoiding the criticisms of his first term, when Democrats raged about instances where migrant children were separated from their parents, all because of the long-standing settlement that required those separations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Haitian migrant family member reaches out for help while emerging from a rocky canal adjacent to a gap in the U.S. border wall in Yuma, Arizona, June 9, 2021. (AP Photo\/Eugene Garcia, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3206016\/unaccompanied-child-smuggling-investigation-cassidy-reveals-major-failures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"SENATE INVESTIGATION INTO UNACCOMPANIED CHILD SMUGGLING FINDS MAJOR 'FAILURES' UNDER BIDEN\">SENATE INVESTIGATION INTO UNACCOMPANIED CHILD SMUGGLING FINDS MAJOR &lsquo;FAILURES&rsquo; UNDER BIDEN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DHS has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3376273\/trump-administration-halting-influx-unaccompanied-migrant-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">touted<\/a> recent figures showing just how much the administration has made inroads toward its goal of stopping the flow of unaccompanied children into the country. A data sheet shared exclusively with the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>last month showed that U.S. Border Patrol encountered only 631 UACs in March, compared to 18,716 recorded in March 2021 under former President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The July hearing could set the stage for one of the most consequential rulings on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">immigration policy<\/a> in years. It could also serve as a major test of the Trump administration&rsquo;s resolve to reshape border enforcement in its second term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2123972\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2123972\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump aims to end Flores decree seen as promoting &#8216;open borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2438490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AP18183844959418.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33709,55807,36382,39424,3634],"class_list":["post-2438489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-border-security","tag-flores-decree","tag-immigration-policy","tag-open-borders","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AP18183844959418.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438493,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438489\/revisions\/2438493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}