The U.S. government has agreed to compensate thousands of migrant families who were forced apart at the southern border in 2017 and 2018 as part of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy.

The class-action settlement with the ACLU was filed Monday in federal court in San Diego. It’s a milestone in the years-long battle over family separations.

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    1 year ago

    Called it when they started doing it. “You want reparations? Because this is how you end up with reparations…”