By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF News, Dallas, Texas.
WASHINGTON D C – (WBAP/KLIF) – Six of the Central American migrants in a varying group of several thousand walking to the United States in hopes of filing asylum claims have filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of themselves and their children against President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and the heads of ICE, DHS, Customs and Border Protection, and with other agencies that deal with immigration policy
The lawsuit, handled by Washington DC’s John M. Shoreman, a partner at the D.C. law firm McFadden and Shoreman, is filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and centers around President Trump’s comments suggesting plans for a tent city to house the migrants while their claims for asylum are considered. The plaintiffs claim tent cities would breach the 1997 Flores Agreement, designed to ensure migrant children at the border receive proper care. The Flores Agreement is a legally binding agreement. Proper care would include toilets, drinking water, supervision and temperature control and ventilation.
The plaintiffs are requesting that the court enter a judgement and law (which would set precedent in future cases) against the defendants, as well as declare the administration’s acts as unconstitutional. If successful, they’d receive costs and attorney’s fees as well as “all other relief that is just and proper.”
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