It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC.

I'm producer Amina Serna filling in for Brian today.

Good morning again, everyone.

Back in April of 2018, the first Trump administration implemented a, quote, zero tolerance family separation policy.

Over the next six weeks, nearly 2,000 minors were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border in the Trump administration's effort to deter migration.

Those numbers, according to the advocacy group, the National Immigration Forum.

Public outcry resulted in a formal reversal of the policy by June,

shifting the Trump administration's policy toward family detention instead.

Within the first days of Trump's second term, our next guest

writes that his administration launched a series of executive actions that, in effect, directed

immigration enforcement against kids. Thousands of immigrant children have been detained so

far, and many have suffered from medical neglect.

Joining us now to discuss her latest reporting

is Sarah Stillman, staff writer at The New Yorker,

and the director of the investigative reporting lab at Yale.

Her latest is titled, The Return of Family Detention.

Sarah, welcome to WMIC. Thank you so much for having me. You write about how

the harm to children is particularly clear in the Trump administration's quote, revival and

expansion of family detention. And that's very clear at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center

in Texas. For listeners who aren't familiar with that center,

can you tell us more about what's happening there?

Absolutely.

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