Settlement would stop U.S. government from separating families at border

Yes, we're very happy with the settlement for the families.

I mean, we have been negotiating this for two-and-a-half years, and we are pleased that we have finally reached an agreement. And, as you said, there are two basic parts to the settlement. The first part is backward-looking to provide benefits for the families that were brutally separated under the Trump administration.

The Biden administration will help us find the remaining families, reunify them at government expense, and the U.S. provide certain housing, medical, legal assistance, parole to remain in the country, work with authorization, and, most importantly, a specialized process for them to seek asylum so they're never sent back again.

The second part of the settlement, which you also mentioned, was indispensable from our standpoint, which was, going forward, no more zero-tolerance policies. And that lasts for eight years. If any future administration tries to do it again, we would be back in court showing the settlement.

After eight years, hopefully, no administration is ever thinking about this again. But if so, we would go back and simply file a new constitutional challenge based on the precedent. So we are thrilled for these families. There's a lot of work to implement.

There are still, as you said, up to 1,000 children, we believe, not with their parents. This is now years later. These children have largely grown up not knowing their parents. There's a lot of work to be done, but this is a critical start.