美法官禁止對非法移民兒童監禁拘留

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that the Obama administration's detention of illegal immigrant children and their mothers violates a nearly 20 year-old court settlement.

一位洛杉磯聯邦法官判決奧巴馬政府對非法移民兒童及其母親的拘留違反了近20年前生效的庭外和解協議。

Judge Dolly Gee ordered the Department of Homeland Security to free the families from three holding facilities as soon as possible.

朱美瑜法官裁決國土安全部儘快從三個拘留中心釋放這些家庭。

In her ruling, handed down late Friday, Gee wrote that the children and their mothers were being held in "widespread deplorable conditions" and that authorities had failed to place the youngsters in "safe and sanitary" facilities, as required by the 1997 settlement.

朱美瑜法官在週五晚間做出的判決中寫道，兒童和他們的母親被關押在“廣泛惡劣的環境裏” 。她同時指出，當局沒有能夠將年幼的孩子安置在“安全衛生”的設施中。這違反了於1997年生效的調解協議。

Gee strongly criticized the government for not complying with what she said are the "unambiguous" terms of the 1997 settlement, and ruled that the settlement applies to both unaccompanied children and those arrived with their mothers.

朱美瑜對聯邦政府違反她所說的1997年協議裏的“明確”條款予以嚴厲的批評，並裁定這份協議同時適用於無人陪同的兒童和那些隨母親一起來到美國的兒童。

The judge has given Homeland Security until August 3 to come up with a plan for the detainees. She also gave the Justice Department 90 days to answer why it should not have to abide by her ruling.

朱美瑜法官要求國土安全部在8月3日前拿出針對被拘留者的方案。她要求司法部在90天之內迴應爲何不應該遵守她的裁決。