The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia has filed a class-action lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s administration’s policy of detaining immigrant children without bond hearings, stating the practice violates decades of federal law intended to protect vulnerable youth.

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The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Eastern District of Virginia, names four plaintiffs who came to the U.S. after bei

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