Is the Story Being Read in Central America?

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I've received a lot of feedback from people who've read the story in spanish and are really happy that the story was translated. I don't know exactly where readers are located. If we do, i'm not aware of it. People might be surprised at how much people who've gone through this migration experience, or thought about it, understand that this isn't an easily answered question for any country. But also agree with, you know, a lot of domestic readers in injust feeling like, ok, but separating families is totally beyond the pale.

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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