These advocates pressed for INS to change its policies to ensure the government released deportable children from detention as quickly as possible. That became the goal of the government release these children as soon as possible. The tragic result of the Flores settlement is that it created an incentive for unaccompanied children to continue to come to the United States. because it virtually guaranteed the expedited release of that child into the interior of our country. (10:31–10:41)
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Asserts that the Flores settlement incentivized unaccompanied children to come to the U.S.
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