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Forcibly Separating Children From Their Mothers Doesn’t Just Hurt the Kids

“I think what we’re potentially talking about is a total mental health catastrophe.”

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I Worked at a Child Migrant Center. What I Was Told to Do Was So Inhumane That I Quit.

“That’s only a rule you’d enforce if you saw these children not as children, but as a dollar amount.”

Antar Davidson, as told to Jackie Flynn Mogensen

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How the King of New York Kosher Restaurants Helped Qatar Win Over American Jewish Leaders

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Trump’s Immigration Plan: Just Lie About It
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They Came Here Seeking Freedom and Were Imprisoned Instead. Look at Their Faces.

They’ve been forced to endure physical, mental, and emotional abuse.

Text by Julie Winokur; Photographs by Ed Kashi/VII for Newest Americans