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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

Family awarded $1.5m after customs agents kept US citizens, aged nine and 14, imprisoned

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A family has been awarded $1.5 million after their two children, who are US citizens, were falsely imprisoned at the US-Mexico border.

US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel awarded $250,000 to the children’s mother, $175,000 to the boy and $1.1m to the girl in his ruling in the civil lawsuit on Friday.

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