Title Baby jails : the fight to end the incarceration of refugee children in America / Philip G. Schrag

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Jenny Flores, 1985-1988 -- 2. "Good Enough," 1988-1993 -- 3. The Second Settlement, 1993-1997 -- 4. Congress Intervenes, 1997-2002 -- Asylum, 1980-1997 -- Hutto, 2003-2007 -- The TVPRA, 2007-2008 -- Artesia, 2009-2014 -- Karnes and Dilley, 2014-2016 -- Litigation Proliferates, 2015-2016 -- Berks, 1998-2018 -- Trump, 2017-2019 Summary "For decades, advocates for refugee children and families have fought to end the U.S. government's practice of jailing children and families for months or even years until overburdened immigration courts could rule on their claims for asylum. Baby Jails is the history of that legal and political struggle. Philip G. Schrag, the director of Georgetown University's asylum law clinic, takes readers through thirty years of conflict over which refugee advocates resisted the detention of migrant children. The saga begins during the Reagan administration with 15-year-old Jenny Lisette Flores, who languished in a Los Angeles motel that the government had turned into a makeshift jail by draining the swimming pool, barring the windows, and surrounding the building with barbed wire. What became the Flores lawsuit was still alive thirty years later, with the Trump administration resorting to the forced separation of families when the courts would not allow the long-term jailing of the children. Schrag provides recommendations to reform a system that has caused anguish and trauma for thousands of parents and children. Provocative and timely, Baby Jails exposes the continuing struggle between the government and immigrant advocates over the duration and conditions of confinement of children who seek safety in America"-- Provided by publisher Analysis america anguish and trauma asylum law clinic claims for asylum confinement of children detention of migrant children flores settlement agreement forced separation of families georgetown university immigrant advocates jailing children jailing families legal struggle los angeles overburdened immigration courts parents and children political struggle reagan administration refugee advocates refugee children refugee families system reform thirty years of conflict trump administration us government Notes "A Naomi Mischneider book." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 02/05/2021) Subject Refugee children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States Refugee children -- Government policy -- United States Immigrant children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States Asylum, Right of -- United States. Detention of persons -- United States LAW -- Emigration & Immigration. Refugee children -- Legal status, laws, etc. Refugee children -- Government policy Detention of persons Asylum, Right of Refugee children Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Immigrants -- Government policy United States Form Electronic book LC no. 2019040626 ISBN 9780520971097 0520971094

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