At 9 years old, my grandfather was separated from his family and placed in immigration detention. He was still talking about that “9-12 month” ordeal decades later, up to the week he died. The wound had never closed. After he passed ... 1/4 
I learned he had been detained for just 34 days.
34 days is a lifetime for a child. 2/4
34 days is a lifetime for a child. 2/4
That was in 1930 at Angel Island Immigration Station. Family separation at the border has been happening for a long time. But the scale has become unimaginable. 3/4
As I watch the events of today, of course I see the face of my own children and imagine what they would suffer. But I also see the face of an old man who still held the pain. #FamiliesBelongTogether 4/4
