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The U.S. will offer migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under then-President Donald Trump temporary legal status and other benefits while barring similar separations in the future, according to a summary of a settlement agreement filed on Monday. The agreement currently applies to some 3,900 children separated from their parents during Trump’s four-year presidency that began in January 2017, according to the ACLU, which represents separated families in a lawsuit first filed in 2018. Read more about the agreement.
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