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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A federal judge in downtown Los Angeles has rejected the Trump administration 's move to terminate a 28-year-old edict governing how immigrant children are detained in federal custody.

U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee issued her ruling Friday, finding that "defendants fail to identify any new facts or law that warrant the termination of the Flores Settlement Agreement at this time."

The so-called "Flores agreement" -- overseen by Gee in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California -- remains one of the only legal tools to prevent the prolonged incarceration of immigrant children detained at U.S. border crossings.

Approved in 1997, the settlement -- named for lead plaintiff Jenny Lisette Flores, a 15-year-old detainee when the class-a

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