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545 of the Children Separated From Their Parents at the Border

Calvin Trillin

November 3, 2020

A Salvadoran migrant and his sons outside a shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on June 19, 2018, after the father decided to stay with his children in Mexico because of President Trump’s family-separation policy.(Reuters / Jose Luis Gonzalez)

The parents of these kids have not been found. De facto orphans now, their lives are blighted. A question that we really need to ask: Why haven’t those who did this been indicted?

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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