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    Biden agrees to settle ACLU lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separations

    by Andrea Castillo and Hamed Aleaziz, Los Angeles Times Oct 16, 2023 4 minutes
    U.S. Border Patrol agents pick up young children and families in the blazing heat while waiting hours to pass through razor wire on the banks of the Rio Grande, Sept. 25, 2023.

    WASHINGTON — Government policies that cause widespread separation of migrant children from their parents would be banned under a proposed legal settlement filed Monday by the Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union.

    If approved by a judge, the settlement, filed after three years of negotiation in federal court for the Southern District of California, would prevent the federal government from using prosecutions of adults who enter the U.S. illegally to separate them from their children.

    Under former President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy, the government regularly prosecuted and jailed migrant parents who crossed the border without authorization, including asylum seekers. That took place despite

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