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California judge awards over $1 million to 2 U.S. citizen children held in CBP custody

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A federal judge in California awarded over $1 million to two children siblings who were held by Customs and Border Protection in 2019 even though the siblings are U.S. citizens, court records show. Most of that amount went to the sister, then 9, who was held in custody for around 34 hours after she and her 14-year-old brother were stopped while using the San Ysidro border crossing from Mexico to California. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel on Friday awarded $1.

Curiel did not accept the U.S. explanation, doubting why the sister would falsely confess to being someone else if that were the case. “It was not reasonable to detain a 9-year-old and 14-year-old on suspicion of a false claim of citizenship while their mother and Julia’s godmother were trying to reach them and without doing any further investigating for over 5 hours in the middle of the workday,” Curiel wrote. While her child was in custody, Medina tried in vain to get answers from the CBP.

 

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