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U.S. argues for migrant family detainment, despite judge’s order to release children
immigrant parents detained with their children — including some infants — after a federal judge set a deadline for the children to be freed, which advocates warned could lead to the renewed separation of families.In court papers, the Trump administration argued Judge Dolly Gee’s findings on Friday were “insufficient” to prove the allegations made by families that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn’t doing enough to control the spread of coronavirus, even as there have been confirmed cases of COVID-19 in two of three family detention centres in Texas and Pennsylvania.