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Trump Team Loses in Defense of Migrant Shelters That Lacked Soap

Trump Administration Fails to Rewrite Child Migrant Accord

(Bloomberg) -- A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s effort to rewrite a 1997 agreement regarding the treatment of children in immigration detention.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday dismissed the government’s challenge to a trial judge’s ruling two years ago upholding the so-called Flores agreement.

To contact the reporter on this story: Edvard Pettersson in Los Angeles at epettersson@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: David Glovin at dglovin@bloomberg.net, Peter Blumberg

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