U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring underage migrants to adult ICE detention centers after they turn 18.
A judge on Saturday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending underage migrants to adult detention centers once they turn 18.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras said the new policy violates an order he issued in 2021, ordering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to not send any migrant to an ICE detention center after they turn 18.
Underage migrants aren’t held in ICE detention centers. They’re held in centers run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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The Trump administration is now offering teen migrants a $2,500 stipend to leave the United States voluntarily, according to several reports citing a letter sent Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement to shelters housing migrant children.
