The View from the Border

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🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Outrage over families separated at the border has reached a fever pitch. Social media is awash with images of undocumented migrants held in cages, sounds of children crying for their parents, and viral videos of a callous administration response. On Wednesday, President Trump caved to immense political pressure and signed an executive order meant to end family separation at the border. But what effect will it actually have? Video producer Jeremy Raff has been in McAllen, Texas, attending "mass trials" of immigrants—many of whom have been separated from their children with no certainty on when, or if, they will be reunited. Raff shares what's happening along the border, then staff writer Priscilla Alvarez joins to discuss what the news in Washington means for separated families. Links - "Purgatory at the Border" (Jeremy Raff, June 19, 2018) - "'So What? Maybe It Is a Concentration Camp'" (Jeremy Raff, February 23, 2018) - "Extinguishing the Beacon of America" (Alex Wagner, June 15, 2018) - "Trump Says He Will End the Family Separations He Imposed" (David A. Graham, June 20, 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The forcible separation of thousands of children from their families has focused America's attention on the Trump administration's zero tolerance approach to border control.
0:10.0	Many families are still camping at America's borders to claim asylum, and many others are jammed up in an overloaded detention apparatus.
0:18.0	What will be the consequences of this chaos?
0:21.0	Have we broken some families forever? This? of this is Radio Atlantic.
0:25.0	This is The Atlantic. With me is my esteemed co-host Alex Wagner.
0:46.2	Hello Alex.
0:47.2	Hello, Matt.
0:49.8	And joining us is our colleague Jeremy Raff, who has been covering ICE and immigrant
0:55.9	detention for months for Atlantic Studios and is currently in McAllen, Texas, where he has been reporting on what's happening at the border.
1:06.1	Hello, Jeremy.
1:07.6	Hey, Matt.
1:08.9	News is moving fast.
1:10.3	We are in a week when we've all been hearing audio of children wailing as they have been separated from their families at the border as part of the Trump administration's approach to border control.
1:22.8	As we tape now on Wednesday afternoon,
1:25.9	news is developing that President Trump is signing
1:28.6	in order to detain families together.
1:31.9	And we're still waiting to see how the administration's
1:35.4	policies are shaping up but Jeremy just a few hours ago you were in
1:40.9	Macales Texas at a mass trial of immigrants who were detained at the border.
1:46.3	Can you just start by telling us what you saw today?
1:50.3	Sure. So what you can hear from the Trump administration is we do not have a policy of
1:56.6	family separation and you'll hear that over and over again and in the narrowest
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