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This week as our attention was

as our attention was diverted by Justice Kavanaugh joining the Supreme Court and a White House visit from

Kagnay West, young children continue to be separated from their parents at the border.

Despite legal actions against the Trump administration,

family separations continue,

and there have been recent reports of very young children

being persuaded to sign away their rights by federal immigration officials.

Why do children continue to be separated?

What can we do to reunite families?

And why are young children being permitted to sign away their

rights?

Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news.

My name is Renato Mariati.

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a CNN legal analyst. a host who will join us regularly on this podcast.

So Patty, I gotta tell you, I was determined to make this the topic this week when I read

that New Yorker article about the five-year-old girl named Helen who was you could

call it persuaded I'd call it tricked into signing away her right to a hearing in front of a judge by these immigration officials.

Look, I was still waiting for Santa Claus to come down our chimney when I was five years old.

I don't even know that I would have understood anything when it comes to what my right what my

rights are as a five-year-old.

This is you know what's the problem here, Renato, is that it's very hard to sustain outrage

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