A federal judge has awarded $1.5 million to a family after two U.S. citizen children, a boy and a girl, were wrongfully detained at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing in 2019. The family lives in Mexico, but the children attend school in the United States. When they attempted to cross the border as usual, Customs and Border Patrol agents stopped them because they believed the photo in the girl’s passport, then 9 years old, was not hers. She was taken to a room and questioned by a single agent, which was not recorded as a violation of CBP policy. She reportedly confessed that the girl in the passport was her cousin. The children were finally released only after the mother began speaking to the press.
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