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The cycle has become familiar: Images emerge of migrant children being held in cramped, dirty facilities, without hygiene products or adult caregivers.

Those conditions are challenged in courts, and judges order officials to fix them.

At the heart of those court orders is a 22-year-old consent decree known as the Flores agreement.

It was the result of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of five girls who had been held at a dingy, overcrowded converted motel in Pasadena, alongside adult strangers, surrounded by a barricade of razor wire.

My colleague Miriam Jordan, who’s based in Los Angeles and covers immigration, spoke to one of the plaintiffs, as well as the lawyers who — with an unexpected nudge from the television legend Ed Asner — took up the cause of migrant children as their lives’ work.