A federal judge in California has shot down an attempt by the Trump administration to scrub away the government's 28-year-old Flores Settlement Agreement , which calls for court-mandated oversight on the treatment of immigrant children in federal custody.

U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee issued a 20-page order on Friday, keeping the 1997 agreement in place as Justice Department lawyers "fail to identify any new facts or law" that warrant its termination "at this time," according to the Barack Obama appointee.

The administration had previously tried terminating the Flores agreement in 2019 at the end of Donald Trump 's first term, but was unsuccessful then, too. Gee reportedly called a hearing last week on the matter "deja vu" as the government tried propping up similar arguments.

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