Flores Litigation Update: Holding A 12- And 14-Year Old — Against Their Will For Over 9 Days, Incommunicado, In Hotel Rooms (Without Outdoor Rec Time)… Amounts To Kidnapping — And Torture.

It is once again the case, that the US government agents have been ommitting material facts from sworn filings related to children being retained on immigration matters, and then sent to the Dilley holding facility/prison. [Notably, were these ADULT criminal accuseds, they could not be held more than 48 hours, without right to a lawyers’ phone call, and/or formal charges. This was over nine DAYS — for children, on an entirely CIVIL matter. Sheesh.]

There will come a time, when all these agents will be cashiered — at a minimum — and some will face perjury charges. Lying to make Tangerine 2.0 look better, in his and Stephen Miller’s designed cruelty to children. . . is deplorable. Here’s the latest out of the class action that has persisted in LA, since the time of Ron Reagan:

…In their Notice, [Tangerine 2.0] Defendants disclose for the first time that “the Hotel Report shows all class members who stayed for over 72 hours in a hotel or hotels, including data of minors who were held consecutively in multiple hotels for over 72 hours, and for whom their entire stay in ICE custody was in hotels….”

Based on their filings, Defendants are, and have been, excluding children detained in hotels for over 72 hours from the Hotel Report and the Juvenile Coordinator’s analysis simply because the child was transferred to the Dilley family detention center or another ICE custodial placement….

The Corrected Hotel Report [Doc. # 1783-2] therefore still omits the nine-day hotel detention of 12-year-old M.M.S. and 14-year-old C.M.S, presumably because they were subsequently transferred to Dilley. Plaintiffs have raised this specific case with Defendants multiple times since early April, including in court filings, and Defendants have yet to provide either Plaintiffs or the Court with any explanation for holding these children nearly incommunicado in a hotel room for nine days without access to counsel or the outdoors. See Pls.’ Response at 13; Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Defendants’ Motion to Reconsider at 7, 9-10, May 1, 2026….

Defendants’ unilateral decision to withhold information regarding the prolonged hotel detention of class members because they were also detained at another ICE placement is plainly inconsistent with the Court’s April 3, 2026, order….

Damnation. Who… are these feckless losers?

[And as to a blogging forecast: I will be off grid in the high Rockies starting early manaña, until next Monday — with a push further westward, to watch more olympic tri- racing, on the weekend in the woods, about a half hour outside Eugene, Oregon. Keep it spinnin’ in good karma — one, and all!]

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