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How a Trump-era policy that separated thousands of migrant families came to pass - PBS NewsHour
The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy formalized the separation of over 5,000 children from their parents as a deliberately cruel measure to deter future migrants, with no tracking process or records that would allow them to be reunited. Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Dickerson joins Geoff Bennett to discuss her investigation into the policy. - Aired on 08/13/2022.
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These are families, seeking a better life, but they punished them for that in the cruelest way possible, disrupting these families and traumatizing these children - often babies - for life. And you're right, they're irate when the twice impeached former president faces consequences for a serious breach of national security! 
