Professor Cooper, Dean Johnson weigh in on Trump administration challenge to Flores

The national media sought insights from UC Davis School of Law’s immigration experts last week about the Trump administration’s plan to challenge the Flores settlement, the 1997 agreement that established basic standards for the treatment of migrant children in detention. The government is trying to end limits on the length of time migrant children can be detained.

Professor and Immigration Law Clinic Co-director Holly Cooper, a lawyer in the Flores case, spoke to the Associated Press, NPR’s “All Things Considered” and The Guardian. AP story, NPR report, Guardian story

Dean Kevin R. Johnson wrote an op-ed in The Conversation about the Flores settlement challenge. The op-ed also appeared in the Houston Chronicle. Read the op-ed

Kevin R. Johnson is the law school’s dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.

Professor Holly S. Cooper ’98, co-director of the Immigration Law Clinic, has extensive litigation experience defending the rights of immigrants and is a nationally recognized expert on immigration detention issues and on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.

 

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