Giving Compass' Take:

• According to AP News, some immigrant families that were separated at the border are suing the U.S. government for mental health help due to the severe trauma they suffered.

• What programs should be available for those individuals that were separated from their families at the border? What impact did those events have on child development?

• Read more about the family separation crisis and its effects.

Families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration and then reunited with their children say they are suffering deep emotional wounds and want the U.S. government to pay for mental health treatment to remedy the situation.

The families say the joyous reunions that occurred after the government reversed its policy have given way to agonizing daily routines as they’ve settled back into life in the U.S. and Central America. They say both the children and parents are traumatized by the ordeal.

Once easy-going children are now jumpy, disobedient, short-tempered and afraid of school, their parents say. They have nightmares on a regular basis. Little things trigger tears, even in older kids.

“I can’t sleep away from my son, nor he from me,” Iris Eufragio said in a phone interview with The Associated Press from Rosedale, Maryland, where she and her 6-year-old boy, Ederson, are living with family friends while they seek asylum after fleeing violence in Honduras.

Read the full article about the trauma of family separation by Julie Watson and Morgan Lee at AP News.