U.S. government agrees to settlement with migrant families separated at the border

People take part in a protest against U.S. immigration policies outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City on June 21, 2018. (Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images)

The U.S. government has agreed to compensate thousands of migrant families who were forced apart at the southern border in 2017 and 2018 as part of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy.

The class-action settlement with the ACLU was filed Monday in federal court in San Diego. It's a milestone in the years-long battle over family separations.