New Article: Towards the Abolition of the Immigration Detention of Children in the United States

Lauren E. Bartlett, Towards the Abolition of the Immigration Detention of Children in the United States, 59 U.S.F. L. Rev. 393 (2025). Excerpt below (citations removed).

“If the United States is serious about forging a path towards the abolition of immigration detention of children, it should at the very least engage candidly on the topic with the human rights experts that sit on international human rights mechanisms, including during the upcoming Universal Periodic Review of the United States by the U.N. Human Rights Council in November 2025. This is a small and relatively easy step that the U.S. government can take toward the abolition of immigration detention of migrant children in the United States. Compliance with recommendations made by international human rights mechanisms is entirely voluntary, and relatively little domestic attention is given to U.S. engagement with human rights mechanisms. Moreover, the expertise and guidance that international human rights mechanisms can provide on this subject are unparalleled.”