Parents whose children were permanently crippled in crashes caused by illegal-immigrant drivers gave impassioned testimony Tuesday on the human cost of deportation-proof "sanctuary" policies at a House Judiciary hearing.

The United Nations' top anti-discrimination body said that states parties to a binding 1965 anti-discrimination treaty are legally obligated to consider reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, escalating a fight that has already landed in a federal courtroom in Illinois.