A distraught immigrant boy nearly jumped out a window after being separated from his family, lawsuit says

Administration for Children and Families at the US Department of Health and Human Services

• Seventeen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its now-halted practice of separating migrant families that illegally cross the US-Mexico border.
• The lawsuit seeks to force the government to reunite the thousands of families it separated.
• The filing is teeming with heart-wrenching stories about traumatized children, including one of a South American boy who allegedly wanted to jump out a window because he missed his family.

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A distraught South American boy who was separated from his family under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" border policy was rushed to hospital after he said he wanted to jump out a window because he missed his parents, a new lawsuit alleges.

Seventeen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its now-halted practice of separating immigrant families that crossed the US-Mexico border illegally. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Seattle, aims to force the government to reunite the thousands of families it split apart — and permanently cease family separations.

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