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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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