Migrant Families File Million Dollar Lawsuits Against Trump Administration Over Child Separations
A handful of migrant families who say they were separated from their children at the southern border have each filed multi-million lawsuits against two departments in the Trump administration.
Each of the six families seeks $3 million in damages and recovery for medical care, counseling and the "torture" they endured, according to the Washington Times.
The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has implemented a zero-tolerance policy for illegal border crossings, so advocates for immigration rights groups have pushed back with the lawsuits as a way of getting back at the administration for separating children from their parents.
National Immigration Justice Center associate litigator Mark Fleming said the Trump administration used the separation tactics as a way to divert any future illegal crossings, and that it ultimately created "emotional stress" on the families, some of whom had been separated from their children for several months.
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