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Immigration

Feb. 27, 2018

ACLU lawsuit challenges government’s separation of asylum-seeker mother, child

A complaint filed Monday is seeking to reunite a mother and daughter requesting asylum in the U.S. and act as a legal test case for what the immigrants’ attorneys say is a troubling recent trend in how the government handles families fleeing persecution.

A complaint filed Monday is seeking to reunite a mother and daughter requesting asylum in the U.S. and act as a legal test case for what the plaintiffs' attorneys say is a troubling recent trend in how the government handles families fleeing persecution.

The American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project filed the lawsuit in San Diego federal court against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal immigra...

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