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Caitlin Dickerson on family separation

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The Good Guys, Are There Any Heroes in the Story?

There are a lot of people within the federal bureaucracy who tried to prevent family separations from taking place. A man named jonathan white oversaw at the beginning of the trump administration that houses kids in federal custody. He found out about this proposal to separate families, and he starts writing up reports talking about the fact that the agency did not have enough space to house children  who tend to be younger than those who crossed the border on their own. They didn't have the resources to just deal with the emotional fall out that was easily anticipated by any expert familiar with child well affair. And you had versions of that same fight, that same argument, being made within d h s as well

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