The Justice Department has broken negotiations to agree to monetary compensation for migrant families separated at the border by former President Donald Trump's zero tolerance policy, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reported to the newspaper on Thursday. The Wall Street Journal.
The government will now focus on litigating federal lawsuits brought to court by these families, alleging
lasting psychological
damage
from the prolonged and forced separations, as Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrant Rights Project and Principal, commented. negotiator in talks.
A spokeswoman for the Justice Department declined to comment.
Families cross the border in 2019.Loren Elliot / Reuters
As part of Trump's policy, immigration agents separated thousands of children, from infants to teens, from their parents at the southern border in 2018, after arriving from Mexico to seek asylum in the United States.