Family Separation ‘Deliberately Traumatized Thousands of Children and Parents’
“We Need to Take Away Children”
In the September issue, Caitlin Dickerson wrote about the U.S. government’s family-separation policy.
What a superb piece of investigative journalism by Caitlin Dickerson. I hope the detailed history of this sordid story leads readers and voters to be more diligent about watching the way governments, both state and federal, deal with immigration.
Ron Kochman
Kenilworth, Ill.
Caitlin Dickerson’s breathtaking investigation exposed the malice and incompetence of the Trump administration, as well as the failure of hundreds of government officials to stop a policy that deliberately traumatized thousands of children and parents. It reaffirms why Physicians for Human Rights concluded in 2020 that family separation meets the United Nations’ criteria for torture and enforced disappearance.
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