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Codifying the Flores Settlement Agreement: Seeking to Protect Immigrant Children in U.S. Custody

April 8, 2019

Codifying the Flores Settlement Agreement: Seeking to Protect Immigrant Children in U.S. Custody

April 8, 2019

Authored By

Rebeca López

Rebeca M. López

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When Labor & Employment attorney, Rebeca Lopez was in law school at Marquette University, she wrote a piece for the Marquette Law Review entitled “Codifying The Flores Settlement Agreement: Seeking To Protect Immigrant Children In U.S. Custody.” This article shares information about the Flores Settlement, a settlement from Reno v. Flores, which restricts the amount of time immigrant children can be detained and governs the conditions under which those children can be detained.

On April 5, 2019, the 2012 article was picked up and reported on by CNN.

Click here to view the full CNN and Marquette Law Review articles.

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