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Rex Huppke: ACLU sues Trump administration over separation of families at the border

There's another child in Chicago who shouldn't be here, another child who should be with his mother.

For more than a week I've been writing about a 7-year-old Congolese girl who was separated from her mother four months ago after the pair arrive in California seeking asylum. The question at the heart of that case, the question that has made my gut clench since this all started, was:

Are there more kids like her here, kids inexplicably removed from their parents by our government?

We now know of at least one more, and there are bound to be others. This morning the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration, claiming the

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