A long-standing rule may have been violated by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) after a seventeen-year-old immigrant teen living in foster care was placed in ICE custody on Monday.
The DCF, which reported the teen to ICE, appeared to violate its own rule by contacting ICE. For thirty years, the DCF's Undocumented Child Rule has protected children in need of welfare screening, with the department supposed to be responding to reports of abuse "without regard to the immigration status."
