Caitlin Dickerson Investigates ‘Secret History’ of Family Separation

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🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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“Separating children was not just a side effect, but the intent,” writes The Atlantic’s Caitlin Dickerson in her recent investigation of the Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance policy. Border agents separated more than 5000 migrant children from their families under Zero Tolerance, even as policymakers had no plans in place to adequately shelter, care for or even keep track of the surge in children they knew would fall into U.S. custody. We talk to Dickerson about her 18-month look at the origins of the U.S.’s forced separation policy and the bureaucratic machinery that enabled it. Guests: Caitlin Dickerson, staff writer, The Atlantic - author of the investigation "The Secret History of Family Separation." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:32.3	has spent 18 months looking into the origins of the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy,
1:39.3	which tore thousands of migrant children from their parents at America's southern border.
1:45.0	We'll hear what Dickerson learned about the creators and endorsers of the policy, how it was
1:50.0	enabled by dozens of people in government who failed to speak up even as they saw disaster
1:55.5	looming.
1:57.2	And we'll learn why even after the fallout, the policy of zero tolerance is only dormant.
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