A.P.F. et al v. United States of America

  1. July 03, 2024

    Asylum-Seeking Families Split At Border Get $1.3M Deal OK'd

    An Arizona federal judge on Tuesday signed off on a $1.3 million settlement that the federal government reached with families who were separated at the southern border in 2018 amid the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy that prosecuted migrants who entered the U.S. illegally. 

  2. April 11, 2024

    Feds Agree To Settle Damages Over 2018 Migrant Separations

    The Biden administration is on track to settle two lawsuits from families that alleged serious harm from a Trump-era policy that resulted in children and parents being separated at the southern border, according to Arizona federal court filings.

  3. October 26, 2023

    Family Separation Suit Against Feds Will Go To Trial

    The U.S. government is not immune from allegations made by a group of migrant parents that being separated from their children at the southwest border amounted to intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence, an Arizona federal judge has ruled.