The following excerpt is from Flores by Galvez-Maldonado v. Meese, 942 F.2d 1352 (9th Cir. 1991):
This case concerns the treatment of children who are arrested on suspicion of being illegal aliens but who have not yet been determined to be deportable. Because the children are persons present in the United States they must be afforded procedural protections in conjunction with any deprivation of liberty. Mathews v. Diaz, 426 U.S.
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