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A5 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2019 Lawsuit fi led over rollback of child immigrant protections G-7 nations pledge $40 million to fi ght Amazon fi res Oregon joined the challenge By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nineteen states and the District of Columbia sued on Monday over the Trump administration’s effort to alter a federal agreement that limits how long immi- grant children can be kept in detention. “We wish to protect chil- dren from irreparable harm,” California Attorney Gen- eral Xavier Becerra said as he announced the lawsuit he is co-leading with Mas- sachusetts Attorney Gen- eral Maura Healey. Both are Democrats. Oregon and Washing- ton are among the states involved. A 1997 agreement known as the Flores settlement says immigrant children must be kept in the least restric- tive setting and generally shouldn’t spend more than 20 days in detention. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said last week it would create new regulations on how migrant children are treated. The administration wants to remove court oversight and allow families in detention longer than 20 days. About 475,000 families have crossed the border so far this budget year, nearly three times the previous full-year record for families. A judge must OK the Trump administration’s pro- posed changes in order to end the agreement, and a legal battle is expected from the case’s original lawyers. It’s not likely that U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee would approve the changes; it was her ruling in Ted S. Warren/AP Photo Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson talks to reporters on Monday during a news conference in Seattle. Nineteen states, including Washington and Oregon, are suing over the Trump administration’s eff ort to alter a federal agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention. 2015 that extended the appli- cation of the Flores agree- ment to include children who came with families. She ordered the Obama adminis- tration to release children as quickly as possible. Still, Becerra argued Cal- ifornia has a role to play in the case because the state is home to so many immigrants. “The federal government doesn’t have a right to tell us how we provide for the well-being of people in our state,” he said. California does not have any detention centers that house migrant fami- lies. The Trump administra- tion argued that because no states license federal deten- tion centers, they wanted to create their own set of stan- dards in order to satisfy the judge’s requirements that the facilities are licensed. They said they will be audited, and the audits made public. But the Flores attor- neys are concerned that they will no longer be able to inspect the facilities, and that careful state licens- ing requirements will be eschewed. Becerra echoed that argu- ment, saying that removing state authority over licens- ing centers could allow the federal government to place centers in California or other states that don’t meet basic standards of care. Attorney General Bob Ferguson of Washington, also a Democrat, said pro- longed detention will have long-term impacts on the mental and physical health of immigrant children and families. “When we welcome those children into our com- munities, state-run programs and services bear the bur- den of the long-term impact of the trauma those children endured in detention,” he said. California on Monday also sought to halt a Trump administration effort that could deny green cards to immigrants using public benefi ts. Other states joining the lawsuit are Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Min- nesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia. Associated Press journal- ists Colleen Long in Wash- ington, D.C., and Rachel La Corte in Olympia, Wash- ington, contributed to this report. PORTO VELHO, Brazil — The Group of Seven nations on Monday pledged tens of millions of dollars to help fi ght rag- ing wildfi res in the Ama- zon and protect its rain- forest, even as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused rich countries of treating the region like a “colony.” The international pledges at a G-7 summit in France included $20 million from the group, as well as a separate $12 million from Britain and $11 million from Canada. Ottawa has also offered to send fi refi ghting planes to Brazil. Other groups are con- tributing support for a region whose rainforests are a major absorber of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Earth Alli- ance, a new environmen- tal foundation backed by Leonardo DiCaprio, is pledging $5 million in aid, saying the Amazon is one of the “best defenses” against climate change. The funds are widely seen as critical support, but a relatively small amount for dealing with an envi- ronmental crisis of such scale threatening what French President Emman- uel Macron called “the lungs of the planet.” More than $1 billion, for example, has been paid into a fund to help the Amazon in the past decade. And major donors Germany and Norway recently cut donations to Brazilian forestry projects, saying Bolsonaro’s admin- istration isn’t committed to curbing deforestation. It was unclear how exactly the new money would be administered. Bureaucracy can slow and reduce the amount that reaches programs in the fi eld. Brazil’s environment minister, Ricardo Salles, said the aid was welcome and that Brazil should decide how the resources are used. More global funding and political will in Bra- zil will be needed once the fi res are extinguished, said John Robinson, chief conservation offi cer at the Wildlife Conservation Society. Brazil needs “legisla- tion and regulations that set clear limits preventing landowners — especially large ones — from burning the forest and converting it to agriculture and range- land, backed by incentives and investment in alterna- tives,” Robinson said. The international pledges came despite ten- sions between European countries and the Brazilian president, who suggested the West was angling to exploit Brazil’s natural resources. “Look, does anyone help anyone ... without something in return? What have they wanted there for so long?” Bolsonaro said. 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