What's the Conversation Like in the World of DHS and Ice?

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There's a lot of people who are in this story. Theye kind of nicely broken out, and the atlantic page a lay out with little black and white cut outs of these major figures. I have heard from a few government sources that, you know, they think about the passive way in which they might play one teeny, tiny role in the implementation of a new policy a little bit differently. Obviously, the government wouldn't work if everybody was on a daily basis guided by their political views.

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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