U.S. Immigration Law
Children’s Rights in Immigration
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100

This 1997 agreement set national standards for the detention and treatment of immigrant children in U.S. custody.

Flores Settlement Agreement

100

The Flores Agreement ensures that children in detention must have access to this basic necessity, along with food and medical care.

clean drinking water

100

The Flores case was originally filed in this decade

What are the 1980s?

100

This U.S. agency was replaced by DHS and was originally responsible for immigration enforcement.

What is the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)?

100

This U.S. president’s administration tried to detain families together indefinitely, challenging Flores.

Who is Donald Trump?

200

The Flores Agreement was named after this Salvadoran girl who was detained by immigration authorities in the 1980s.

Jenny Lisette Flores

200

The agreement requires that children be held in facilities that are both safe and this.

What is sanitary?

200

This 1993 Supreme Court case ruled on aspects of the Flores litigation

What is Reno v. Flores?

200

This federal agency currently handles the care of unaccompanied minors.

What is the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)?

200

During this global event, courts ordered the release of children from detention for health reasons.

What is the COVID-19 pandemic?

300

The Flores Agreement requires that children be released without this.

unnecessary delay

300

Under Flores, children must be released to this type of person first, if available.

Who is a parent?

300

The Flores Settlement was finalized as a consent decree in this year

What is 1997?

300

This executive order in 2018 attempted to modify the Flores Agreement.

What is Executive Order 13841?

300

News coverage of this type of facility sparked public outrage over child detention conditions.

What is a border detention center?

400

This U.S. government agency was originally responsible for detaining Jenny Flores.

Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

400

This type of program is licensed by the state to care for unaccompanied minors when no family is available.

What is a licensed shelter or program?

400

This type of legal agreement resolved the Flores case without a trial.

What is a settlement?

400

This branch of government blocked attempts to end the Flores Agreement in 2019.

What is the judicial branch (or federal courts)?  

400

 This type of legal professional often advocates for the rights of detained immigrant children.

 What is an immigration lawyer?

500

In 2019, this administration attempted to replace the Flores Agreement with new regulations, but was blocked by a federal court.

Trump administration

500

The Flores Agreement applies to this group of people, regardless of their country of origin.

Who are immigrant minors?

500

This federal department oversees immigration enforcement and detention today.

 What is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?

500

The Flores Agreement has been a major point of debate in this ongoing national issue.

What is immigration policy?

500

This international organization has criticized U.S. child detention practices.

What is the United Nations?

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