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The dollar amounts remain under discussion, but one person with knowledge of the negotiations said payouts could total $450,000 per person, with some families potentially receiving $1 million. Some parents may not receive any compensation at all, depending on any criminal charges against them.
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Lee Gelernt, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who has led the legal effort to reunite the families and has filed a class-action lawsuit seeking damages. The U.S. government took more than 3,000 children away from their parents along the Mexican border in May and June 2018, the peak of Trump’s Zero Tolerance prosecution effort.
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Trump officials launched the crackdown with little interagency coordination and no effective system to track and reunite children with their parents, resulting in bureaucratic chaos, according to federal courts and oversight reports. The American Academy of Pediatrics told CNN that it amounted to child abuse.