"[Family] separation stands in for every other episode of cruelty, and transcends them all. 'We’ve been declared in some respects a state sponsor of child abuse by friends overseas,' John R. Allen, a retired four-star Marine Corps general... told me." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"The immediate charge to the commission would be to do everything possible to find the hundreds of displaced children and unite them with their families—which even before the election Biden promised to do." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"The further task would be to document, step-by-step, the process by which the president and his officials were able to put this policy of sanctioned kidnapping into place. Separating children from their parents doesn’t simply occur by executive fiat." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"There are bureaucratic and legal hurdles that action of this kind must surmount—and Trump’s desire surmounted all of them with ease. That demanded complicity by scores... from White House aides to [DOJ] lawyers to the functionaries at the border." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"From its immersion in tragedy, the commission could perhaps launch a larger discussion on immigration and immigration policy. But the main focus must be on the process of forcible separation." @JamesFallows theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

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11 Dec
"The father was very distrustful and very surprised that I had his name," Sanchez recalled. "It was very hard for him to fathom why somebody would be looking... to find out what had happened to him after he was separated or to ask if he needed help." azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
"Immigrant advocates... hope that under the incoming Biden administration there could be a third option: allowing deported parents to return to the U.S. to reunite with their separated children, something the Trump administration has refused to consider." azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
"You know, it's been a long time, three years later, and someone comes along asking to find this person. So why would they trust them?" Caron said. "They feel deeply abandoned. They were deceived by the U.S. government. Their kids were taken away." azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
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3 Dec
BREAKING: Lawyers say Trump admin has handed over new data that will help reunite separated migrant families.

"Not only have they not been helping but they have been withholding this data forever," @ACLU's @leegelernt told @NBCNews.

With @JuliaEAinsley. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
NBC News reported in November parents of 666 kids had yet to be found, making the path to reunification difficult. Filing on Wednesday said some families have since been identified, bringing number of parents whose whereabouts are still unknown to 628. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
"We have been repeatedly asking the Trump admin... for any additional data they might have to help locate the families," said @leegelernt. "Unfortunately, it took the issue reaching the level of a presidential debate to move them to give us this data." nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
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20 Nov
I think I’ve been having weird dreams about voting machines. Could be the absolutely baseless, insane conspiracy theories out there. Or it could be that I sleep next to an antique one every night.
That voting machine has its very own YouTube video, if you’re into that kind of thinf.
Sorry I didn’t make the bed for that photo.
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19 Nov
NEW: Trump White House killed deal to pay for mental health care for traumatized migrant children and parents it separated at border. @NBCNews exclusive, with @JuliaEAinsley and @GeoffRBennett. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
Sources said the White House counsel's office said no after checking with Trump adviser Stephen Miller.

“Ultimately, it was Stephen who prevailed. He squashed it.”

A White House official denied Miller had a role. nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1…
"DOJ strongly, and unanimously, supported the settlement, but not all agencies involved were on the same page," an administration official said. "Ultimately, the settlement was declined at the direction of the White House counsel's office." nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1…
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18 Nov
Next time I go out in the field I’m gonna bring back my old VHS camcorder, Reebok Pumps, and definitely tuck in only some of my oversized t-shirt like the old days.
This was about as close as I ever got to going to journalism school.
Also, the hand in the pocket is how it’s done. Ask @DanaRoecker.
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16 Nov
My safe space is waking up at 3AM to get work done. It’s been two hours and not a peep from my kids. But now I’m tweeting and need to finish before they wake up. Kbye.
(I grind my coffee beans the night before.)
They’re awake.
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