Settlement over Trump family separations at the border seeks to limit future separations for 8 years

By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press

SAN DIEGO (AP) — There’s a settlement in a long-running lawsuit over the Trump administration’s separation of parents and their children at the southern border. U.S. officials say the agreement between the Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union bars the government from similar separations for eight years. It also would provide benefits like the ability for the parents to come to America and work. The ACLU represented families separated from their children. The Trump administration separated thousands of children from their parents or guardians they were traveling with as it moved to criminally prosecute people for illegally crossing the southwestern border. The settlement still has to be approved by a judge.