Separated Recounts Trump Administrations Deliberate and Systematic Family Separation Policy

Published: Aug. 17, 2020, 10 a.m.

b'In June 2018, NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff became one of the first journalists allowed entry into Casa Padre, a Texas facility holding more than 1,400 migrant boys who\\u2019d been separated from their families at the Mexican border. The horror he experienced reporting on that facility formed the basis of his new book \\u201cSeparated: Inside An American Tragedy,\\u201d which documents the Trump Administration\\u2019s zero-tolerance family separation policy during 2017 and 2018. We\\u2019ll talk about the political forces behind the policy, how it ended and why Soboroff considers it \\u201cone of the most shameful chapters in modern American history.\\u201d'