If You're Shocked by Reports on Children at the Border, You Haven't Paid Attention to American History

Americans love their children, agonizing about offering them a hopeful path to the future. But since the nation’s beginnings, we have been at once sympathetic to images of childhood and unkind in our treatment of “other” people’s children. For migrants at the southern border, this seeming paradox is playing out once again.

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• Federal Agencies Trade Blame Over Detention of Migrant Children
• Zero tolerance may be over, but migrant children are still being separated from parents
• New holding center for migrant children opens at former Texas oilfield camp
• One boy’s tale of family separation heads to court
• Reporter Who Helped Expose Conditions At The Border Says Little Has Changed
• 'Our lost son': Migrant boy still separated from parents after dad is deported
• Watch: Asylum-seeker talks about daughter’s death after U.S. custody
• Migrant Whose Daughter Died In Custody Slams "Cruelty" Of US Detention
• US: Family Separation Harming Children, Families
• Former ICE head says raids pose ‘significant risk’ to families with U.S. kids
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