The Trump Child Abuse Scandal

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It’s been two years since the peak of public outcry over the Trump administration’s decision to begin separating the children of unauthorized migrant families from their parents. Yet the massive crisis that policy spawned remains arguably the darkest chapter in Donald Trump’s very dark presidency. MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff has been back and forth from the border and central America covering the family separation saga since it began, a story he chronicles in his new book Separated.

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0:00.0	I think it's a slow motion ongoing decades-long American tragedy.
0:12.0	Welcome to Deconstructed. I'm Mehdi Hussain.
0:14.0	Whatever happened to all those kids who were stolen from their parents at the border?
0:18.0	Why did we just forget about perhaps the biggest scandal, the worst crime of the Trump presidency?
0:24.0	It was not thought through. There was no plan.
0:27.0	And today we're still picking up the pieces in the aftermath.
0:31.0	That's my guest today, Jacob Soberoff.
0:33.0	NBC News and MSNBC correspondent and author of the new book, Separated, Inside an American Tragedy.
0:39.0	He's been covering this crisis, this scandal at the border from the very beginning.
0:44.0	So on today's show, The War on Migrants, and especially the theft of migrant children from their parents.
0:50.0	How and why did it happen and is it even truly over?
0:57.0	Do you remember this?
1:07.0	That was a recording of 10 Central American children sobbing desperately after being separated from their parents in June of 2018 here in the United States.
1:17.0	That was a recording obtained by ProPublica, and which promptly went viral and grabbed news headlines.
1:23.0	It was even played in the White House briefing room.
1:26.0	That recording helped make ordinary Americans aware of the abuses that were being perpetrated at their southern border in their name by the federal government, by the Trump administration.
1:36.0	Specifically and shamefully, the deliberate systematic separation of thousands of brown skin migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border on the orders of President Donald J. Trump.
1:49.0	And for a few months in 2018, what was called child separation with the biggest story in America, if not the world.
1:57.0	Families are being torn apart, thousands of them.
2:01.0	Kids taken hundreds, even thousands of miles away from their parents, young children, toddlers even housed in so-called tender age facilities.
2:08.0	If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring him across the border illegally.
2:14.0	The pictures of children being held who want to appear to be cages are deeply disturbing. The Pope labeling it immoral.
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