The Scars of Family Separation
The Daily
The New York Times
4.3 • 107.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Michael. This week, the Daily is revisiting our favorite episodes of the year, |
| 0:05.1 | listening back, and then hearing what's happened in the time since the story's first ran. |
| 0:10.4 | Today, we're going back to an episode from this summer, when we met a man named Nazario, |
| 0:15.8 | who was separated at the border from his daughter as part of the Trump administration's |
| 0:20.1 | crackdown on undocumented immigrants. From the New York Times, I'm Michael Warborer. This is The Daily. |
| 0:33.0 | Today, as it raised to meet its deadline for reunifying parents and children separated at the border, |
| 0:40.4 | the Trump administration deemed hundreds of parents ineligible. What does it mean to be |
| 0:47.2 | ineligible for reunification with your own child? |
| 0:56.0 | It's Friday, July 27th. |
| 0:58.3 | Hello. |
| 1:08.2 | Hi, Nazario. |
| 1:10.2 | Hi, I'm Caitlin Jacobson. I'm a journalist in the United States of New York Times. |
| 1:18.7 | I wanted to talk a little about your situation with your daughter. |
| 1:25.6 | Hi. |
| 1:32.6 | So, Nazario Hasinto Carrillo is from rural Guatemala, and his family farms potatoes. |
| 1:42.0 | He comes from an indigenous village there, so he speaks Spanish, but it's actually his second |
| 1:45.9 | language, though he can't read or write. |
| 1:48.6 | Yeah. Caitlin Dickerson covers immigration for the times. And in May, he decided to leave |
| 1:55.6 | Guatemala with his five-year-old daughter, her name's Filomena. |
| 1:58.5 | And how was that supposed to? |
| 2:00.7 | They left behind his wife and a two-year-old son who would presumably come and join them later. |
| 2:08.0 | But the goal for Nazario and Filomena was to seek asylum in the United States. |
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