Family Separation Lawsuit Heads to Trial After an Arizona Court Ruling

A lawsuit brought by a group of asylum seekers separated under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border policy is headed to trial.

The lawsuit includes six fathers and six children separated at the Arizona border between November 2017 and May 2018.

The zero-tolerance policy allowed border officers to criminally prosecute adults who crossed the border without permission and send them to separate facilities from their kids. Thousands of children separated as a result, sometimes for months at a time. Experts estimate as many as 1,000 children are still separated today.

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