Attorney Areva Martin has filed an amended claim on behalf of hundreds of Black and Mexican families against the city of Palm Springs, California, who are seeking millions of dollars in restitution for being forcibly evicted from the Section 14 neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s, she said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Martin said the preliminary harm to the families could be upwards of $2 billion.

Pearl Devers, 72, is one of the hundreds of Black and Mexican people who were forcibly displaced in the 1950s and 1960s from a one-square-mile neighborhood known as Section 14 in Palm Springs, the primary residential area for people of color at the time.

“All I know is I went back there one day and that my house was gone. My daddy was gone and my neighbors slowly watched the neighborhood disintegrate,” Devers told ABC News.

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