Trump administration moves to end limits on child detention

By COLLEEN LONG and AMY TAXIN
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to end a long-standing federal agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention. A court fight will almost certainly follow over the government’s desire to hold migrant families until their cases are decided.
The current court agreement now requires the government to keep children in the least restrictive setting and to release them as quickly as possible, generally after 20 days i