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A 14-month-old baby boy separated from his parents by U.S. officials at the Mexican border was finally returned to his mother dirty and covered with lice 85 days later, according to one of several chilling accounts in documents filed in a lawsuit motion. The suit, filed last week by 17 states and the District of Columbia against President Donald Trump and federal agencies, calls for migrant children and parents to be reunited.

The boy’s mother, Olivia Caceras, is quoted as saying that it didn’t appear that the baby had been bathed during his nearly three-month stay in federal custody as part of Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on separating undocumented immigrants from their children.

The baby “continued to cry when we got home and would hold on to my leg and […]