Imigration as a Beat

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Imigration as a beat certainly existed before the trump administration, but i still had people, when trump was president, say to me, i didn't even know you could be an imigration reporter. How was that a whole beat? It's kind of this rarefied space when trump became president, and was obviously really focused on em migration. And so it became a multidisciplinary beat, at least at the times where you had our white house reporters, mike shear and julie davis,. We had raw nixon and thensol and cano young, he came over and covered the beat, was supposed to cover it from washington. So theoretically we're supposed

Caitlin Dickerson is a staff writer for The Atlantic covering immigration. Her latest article, on the secret history of U.S. government’s family-separation policy, is ”An American Catastrophe.”

“Interviewing separated families, I’ve found, is just on a whole other scale of pain and trauma. I’ve watched people have really intense PTSD flashbacks in front of me. I never wanted to risk asking a family to open up in that way if I didn’t know that I’d be able to use that material. The worst thing you can do is waste someone’s time in a way that causes them pain.”

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