Trump Said Family Separations Would End. They’re Happening Again.
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarro. |
| 0:03.8 | This is the Daily. |
| 0:13.0 | During President Trump's first term, the intentional separation of migrant children from their parents shocked the country and persuaded Trump to say that he would end the practice for good. |
| 0:26.4 | But my colleague, Hamid Ali Aziz, has found that in Trump's second term, family separations are back. |
| 0:44.1 | Thank you. operations are back. It's Thursday, August 7th. |
| 0:52.7 | Hi, this is New York Times. |
| 0:57.6 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:59.4 | Here is the subject you requested, sir. |
| 1:02.1 | Okay, fantastic. |
| 1:03.3 | Let me get my translator on the call. |
| 1:07.0 | Hamid, I wonder if you can tell us about this family that you have been talking to. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah, I've been speaking with this Russian couple, |
| 1:15.1 | Evgenia and Evgeny, for the past month. |
| 1:19.4 | Okay, are you here? Is everybody here? |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.4 | Hello? |
| 1:23.5 | Okay, wonderful. |
| 1:24.5 | They're in their 30s. |
| 1:27.2 | They're from the Russian city of Vogelgrad, |
| 1:30.5 | and they have this eight-year-old child, Maxime. |
| 1:35.3 | I guess I'd like to start, you know, |
| 1:37.3 | why did you want to come to America? |
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