BONUS: Ari Melber breaks down the federal case that can stop Trump's immigration plan in its tracks

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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🗓️ 22 September 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on The Flores Agreement, a decades-old court settlement that is now more important than ever. The case controls how immigrant minors are treated in detention -- and is central to Trump’s family separation crisis. In this special report, Melber examines how Trump's immigration agenda is thwarted by this Clinton-era case, how Trump actually echoes Obama on the immigration ruling but differs on protecting human rights, and what Congress can do to reform the entire system.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone listening to the podcast. This is Ari Melbur, and I want to share with you a couple
0:04.7	quick things before we get to this program. Number one, if you happen to live in New York or Brooklyn,
0:10.7	we have an event coming up on October 6 with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and some other leaders
0:15.4	from the music industry to talk about the 25th anniversary of Biggie Smalls Ready to Die
0:20.6	album. You can get all the
0:21.5	information at MSNBC.com slash Biggie. That's MSNBC.com slash Biggie. If you happen to be in the New York area or coming to New York, check it out. Now, for everyone else all around the country, I want to tell you, we have something special that we worked a long time on, and that's coming up next, and it's my breakdown on something you may have heard a lot about, which is a deep dive into the Flores
0:41.9	agreement. This is a decades-old court settlement that actually still governs to this day
0:46.4	how immigration works in the U.S. and specifically how child migrants are treated. Now, obviously,
0:51.9	you hear child migrants, and you can think about some of those
0:54.3	terrible stories we've seen of mistreatment by the Trump administration, what to do to stop it,
0:58.6	and what to do to fix the underlying problems. Well, right now, you're going to hear my special report.
1:03.5	And what I tried to do here, because I know many of you appreciate facts in detail, is really go deeper
1:08.7	than the political fights. And look look at the history how this started,
1:12.7	how immigration advocates won certain things, but how some of the story got complicated and there
1:17.4	were setbacks in the courts as well. Because our argument fundamentally and what you're about
1:21.2	to hear is that the facts matter and the solutions will require more than just criticizing
1:26.2	Donald Trump. I hope you take a listen.
1:29.4	If you think you want to give us a rating, we always like five stars. I always say that or give
1:33.1	us whatever rating you think we deserve. We do look at the ratings and we do read the comments
1:37.4	here on our podcast. So keep them coming. And without further ado, here's our breakdown on the Flores
1:42.6	agreement. You've probably been hearing a lot about the Flores Agreement or Flores settlement.
1:47.2	The White House said this week that they want to change the Flores Agreement.
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