Peter Schey, a driven defender of the human rights of migrants crossing the Southern border, who won landmark legal cases requiring humane care for undocumented children and the right of migrants to attend school and receive health care in states that tried to bar those services, died in Los Angeles on April 2.
His death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of lymphoma, said Melinda Bird, a former wife.
He took on both Democratic and Republican administrations in Washington.
He was a leader of the legal team that negotiated the seminal Flores Settlement Agreement, a 1997 government measure safeguarding detained, unaccompanied migrant children.
He fought the Trump administration when it tried to tear up the deal 21 years later.
Persons:
Peter Schey, Melinda Bird, Schey, shay, Trump
Organizations:
Democratic, Republican
Locations:
Los Angeles, South Africa, Washington