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🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

How the government has lost track of hundreds of separated migrant families. Why rural communities still lack reliable access to high-speed Internet. And, forming a ‘pandemic pod’ for the winter.

More than two years after a U.S. district judge ordered that families separated by President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy at the border be reunited, the parents of 545 minors still haven't been found. Reporter Teo Armus explains why it’s been so difficult to track and reunite families.

Read Kevin Sieff’s story about one of the first families separated at the border. Years later, they’re still apart.

The coronavirus pandemic has drawn new attention to a long-standing problem – poor Internet in rural communities. “There are people who have to go sit in parking lots, go meet a bus that has mobile hotspots, so they can submit homework or send an email with a large attachment,” says reporter Meagan Flynn, “because they can’t get Wi-Fi in their house.”

As winter approaches, many of us who rely on outdoor hangouts to meet our social needs might start to feel a little trapped and lonely. Never fear. Wellness reporter Allyson Chiu has a solution.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:06.0	Hi there is the Mary Marissa Lang with the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hey it's Dossie, I want to pick your brain on the front.
0:12.0	Hi, thanks.
0:13.0	Jenna Johnson.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.0	It's Thursday, October 22nd.
0:24.0	Today, the legacy of child separation.
0:27.0	The barrier to accessing the Internet in rural America.
0:30.0	And how to start a pandemic pod.
0:36.0	This week we learned in a court filing that of the children who were separated from their parents at the border under the Trump administration.
0:43.0	There are still 545 children whose parents can't be found.
0:51.0	Teo armises reporter for the post.
0:55.0	In 2018, the Trump administration rolled out this zero-tolerance immigration policy.
1:01.0	Officials wanted to disincentivize families from Central America trying to come to the US.
1:06.0	So, they started to separate parents from their kids as soon as they crossed the border.
1:11.0	The United States will not be a migrant camp.
1:16.0	And it will not be a refugee holding facility.
1:22.0	You look at what's happening in Europe, you look at what's happening in other places.
1:26.0	We can't allow that to happen to the United States, not on my watch.
1:30.0	This, of course, made headlines.
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