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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schrag, Philip G., 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Government policy--United States.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Government policy.

Refugee children.

United States.

Refugee children--United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Physical Description:

xiii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

I worked in a trailer that ICE had set aside for conversations between the women and the attorneys. While we talked, their children, most of whom seemed to be between three and eight years old, played with a few toys on the floor. It was hard for me to get my head around the idea of a jail full of toddlers, but there they were." 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 as 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 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliiographical references (pages 301-372) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Schrag, Philip G., 1943- Baby jails.

ISBN:

0520299310

9780520299313

9780520299306

0520299302

OCLC:

1088738419