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Separated - Inside an American Tragedy (Hardcover)
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The seminal book on the
child-separation policy." -Rachel Maddow The award-winning NBC News
correspondent lays bare the full truth behind America's systematic
separation of families at the US-Mexico border. Los Angeles Times
Book Prize Finalist | American Book Award Winner | American Bar
Association's Silver Gavel Award Finalist In June 2018, Donald
Trump's most notorious decision as president had secretly been in
effect for months before most Americans became aware of the
astonishing inhumanity being perpetrated by their own
government-the deliberate separation of migrant parents and
children at U.S. border facilities. Jacob Soboroff was among the
first journalists to expose this reality after seeing firsthand the
living conditions of the children in custody. His influential
series of reports ignited public scrutiny that contributed to the
president reversing his own policy and earned Soboroff the Cronkite
Award for Excellence in Political Broadcast Journalism and, with
his colleagues, the 2019 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism.
But beyond the headlines, the complete, multilayered story lay
untold. How, exactly, had such a humanitarian tragedy-now deemed
"torture" by physicians-happened on American soil? Most important,
what has been the human experience of those separated children and
parents? Soboroff has spent the past two years reporting the many
strands of this complex narrative, developing sources from within
the Trump administration who share critical details for the first
time. He also traces the dramatic odyssey of one separated family
from Guatemala, where their lives were threatened by narcos, to
seek asylum at the U.S. border, where they were separated-the son
ending up in Texas, and the father thousands of miles away, in the
Mojave desert of central California. And he joins the heroes who
emerged to challenge the policy, and who worked on the ground to
reunite parents with children. In this essential reckoning,
Soboroff weaves together these key voices with his own experience
covering this national issue-at the border in Texas, California,
and Arizona; with administration officials in Washington, D.C., and
inside the disturbing detention facilities. Separated lays out
compassionately, yet in the starkest of terms, its human toll, and
makes clear what is at stake as America struggles to reset its
immigration policies post-Trump.
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