And before anybody says “Biden still locks up migrant children,” temporarily holding an unaccompanied minor (for a few days until a relative is located) is not the same as forcibly taking kids from their parents.

Highlights: On Monday, the Biden administration reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought on behalf of families separated at the US-Mexico border due to Donald Trump’s so-called “zero-tolerance” policy, under which immigration agents removed thousands of migrant children from their parents.

The Trump administration knew it couldn’t properly keep track of children and parents after piloting the practice in 2017, an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found. But it moved forward with family separations anyway.

Many parents were also deported without their children, which made it extraordinarily difficult to reunite those families.