Clinic Students Help Write Practice Advisory After Win for Detained Migrant Children

Immigration Law Clinic students helped write a comprehensive practice advisory on a recent nationwide preliminary injunction the clinic won in the Lucas R. v. Becerra case.

The clinic attained a crucial victory Aug. 30 when U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Judge Dolly Gee ordered the federal government to provide more robust procedural protections for detained migrant children.

Gee’s preliminary injunction in Lucas R. ensures that minors held in Office of Refugee Resettlement custody can appeal the denial of their safe and timely release to family members in the United States. They also can appeal ORR’s decision to place them in restrictive and locked facilities such as juvenile detention centers, residential treatment programs and “medium secure” facilities.