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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Immigrants’ suit over family separations will proceed

BOSTON — A federal court in Massachusetts refused to dismiss many tort claims brought by immigrant parents and their children against the U.S. for the weeks they were separated from one another after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration. Family separation plausibly was barred under federal rules implemented in 1997 and 2008.

Read the ruling here.

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