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ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Federal Government
Published: Monday, March 12, 2018 - 3:34pm
Updated: Monday, March 12, 2018 - 3:37pm
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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government on Friday for separating immigrant families.
In the suit they claim that hundreds of families have been split up, and ask a judge to declare family separation illegal.
Here to explain this, and what prompted this suit, is Nomaan Merchant, a reporter with the Associated Press in Houston.