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Judge halts Trump administration from detaining immigrant children after they turn 18

Trump Ice Immigration Rudolph Contreras United States
Closeup of Ice badge on shirt.
The ruling adds to a growing list of federal clashes over Trump’s immigration policies, particularly those involving minors. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

A federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration initiative that would have kept immigrant children in custody after their 18th birthdays, preventing their transfer to adult detention centers that advocates said were planned for this weekend.

On Saturday, US district judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington DC issued a temporary restraining order directing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to stop placing unaccompanied immigrant children into adult detention once they reached legal adulthood, reported the Associated Press.

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