Families separated by the Trump-era zero tolerance policy at the U.S.-Mexico border will receive money in a new settlement agreement.
It’s the latest in a years-long legal saga for the families. Under zero tolerance, border officers were charge adult migrants criminally and take their children to separate facilities. About 5,000 kids were separated between 2017 and 2018. About 1,400 are still not reunited with their parents today, according to reporting from the AP.
This week, a California district court approved a $6 million settlement for families part of a class action lawsuit. Some funds will go directly to them and a large portion will go to the ACLU and other groups representing them.
Some families are together now and in the U.S. on temporary status. But that may be in jeopardy under a new Trump administration’s mass deportation scheme.
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In a weeklong series, KJZZ looks at Arizona’s connection to the Japanese internment policies that were instituted following Pearl Harbor, and how it ties into the broader story of racialized public policy. Gabriel Pietrorazio joined The Show for a closer look at the series. -
That includes more than 11,000 non-Mexican deportees, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. -
The Pinal County Attorney’s Office announced this week that it’s joining certain violent-crime task forces led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The same deal with the Phoenix Police Department was canceled more than a decade ago. -
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have accused Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva of “faking outrage” over her protest at an ICE raid west of downtown Tucson last week. -
Long before World War II, the U.S. Army rounded up Native Americans onto reservations — drawing in their new boundaries. And in Arizona, the federal government once again looked to those lands for another minority population — Japanese Americans — also forcibly rounded up by the military after the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941.
