NEW: Biden DOJ moves to end court oversight of unaccompanied minors in immigration custody

The Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to end the court oversight of unaccompanied minors in immigration custody.  

On Friday, the administration moved to end a decades-old agreement that guides the conditions for unaccompanied children coming into the US, according to court documents regarding the Flores Settlement Agreement (FSA).

The agreement has been in effect for 27 years and the DOJ filed a motion on Friday in a court case to end a portion of the agreement that helps to protect unaccompanied minors in the immigration system and regulates the "detention and release of unaccompanied minors taken into the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service." 

"This proposed section would not create an oversight mechanism with authorities that equate with court oversight under a consent decree" the proposed rule change states.  

The motion and proposed rule comes as Biden's Department of Health and Human Services has designed its own safeguards for these procedures, according to the Associated Press, which would go into effect on July 1.  

In the motion filed for a California court case, the DOJ said that the supervision in the law as has been written has outlived its purpose and needs different regulations. 

The filing from the DOJ stated in part, "HHS hereby moves to terminate [portions of] the FSA," and said that the application of the regulation are "no longer equitable." 

The DOJ cited limited space in immigration centers as a reason for the motion.  

The new rules set forth by the Biden administration seek to place unaccompanied children with sponsors as “expeditiously as possible” when “in the event of an emergency or influx of children into the United States.”