parental leave is a great time to like rewatch your random start there are a couple of challenges to that plan but

we can we can go through that on another episode of the weeds.

i'm just i'm saying parental leave that's your that's your deep space nine we watch opportunity perfect all right we should podcast let's make a podcast.

hello welcome to another episode of the weeds on the box media podcast network i'm methweeklaysias here with jane

coastant and darlin uh darin i were on vacation last week and uh apparently some stuff happened i came back

and i i was i'm genuinely confused so there are children in detention in what appear to be very

poor conditions and a lot of stories about it yes and i like what right so what what what so this is not

the child separation not right right this is the ongoing general phenomenon of families and child

groups arrive at the border yeah we podcasted about this many times most recently in the tariff context

but then like what how did this what where did this story come from what what right so as a regular

consumers of policy news might be aware of there's a special legal agreement uh it's basically like

think of it as kind of analogous to a consent decree in which the judicial branch is taking an active

role in overseeing the actions of the executive branch and it's it's called the floor is agreement

and it deals specifically with the treatment of children and immigration detention and like it

goes back to the 90s in theory it was supposed to be just a placeholder for like this is something

that the government should have either a law or regulation about and then the government didn't

put together either a law or regulation because it had the clutch that was this agreement and they were

like we'll just continue to comply with florist that's fine um you know the trumpet administration

is now trying to write that regulation but like that's kind of a sidebar for the story uh as part of that

a group of kind of legal investigators like some lawyers some human rights advocates were

doing some monitoring of the conditions at centers that are run by border patrol now

quick run through for those who have forgotten or who like me were in Europe for two weeks and

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