Family Separation - What Are the Most Irresistible Pieces of Information?

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Reporter worked on a targeted search for emales with key terms that weren't too broad. She was also interested in the guidance, you know, any kind of training or implementation detail that was provided to border patrol agents who were supposed to carry it out. A lot of these complaints were filed when parents still didn't know where their kids were.

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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