Oakland-based attorneys pushing back against the Trump administration in federal court raised alarms as they said they have evidence of children being held for weeks in prison-like conditions in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody.

Now, a federal judge is reaffirming those allegations and upholding the federal government’s responsibility to process detained immigrant children as expeditiously as possible. The ruling comes after the Trump administration again sought to end a settlement requiring humane treatment of children in federal custody .

U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee on Friday rejected the administration’s bid to throw out the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement, which requires the government to transfer detained children to a guardian or a licensed facility within three da

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