Baby Jails The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America 1st Edition by Philip Schrag ISBN 9780520971097 0520971094

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ISBN 10: 0520971094
ISBN 13: 9780520971097
Author: Philip Schrag

“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 over which refugee advocates resisted the detention of migrant children. The saga began during the Reagan administration when 15-year-old Jenny Lisette Flores 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 known as the Flores Settlement Agreement was still at issue years later, when the Trump administration resorted to the forced separation of families after the courts would not allow long-term jailing of the children. Schrag provides recommendations for the reform of a system that has brought anguish and trauma to thousands of parents and children. Provocative and timely, Baby Jails exposes the ongoing struggle between the U.S. government and immigrant advocates over the duration and conditions of confinement of children who seek safety in America.

Baby Jails The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Jenny Flores, 1985–1988

2. “Good Enough,” 1988–1993

3. The Second Settlement, 1993–1997

4. Congress Intervenes, 1997–2002

5. Asylum, 1980–1997

6. Hutto, 2003–2007

7. The TVPRA, 2007–2008

8. Artesia, 2009–2014

9. Karnes and Dilley, 2014–2016

10. Litigation Proliferates, 2015–2016

11. Berks, 1998–2018

12. Trump, 2017–2019

Conclusion

Epilogue

Appendix: Important Laws and Lawsuits

Acronyms

Notes

Index

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