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More than 4,000 children are known to have been separated from their parents before and during the official start of zero tolerance in spring 2018. Under the policy, border agents charged parents en masse with illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border...1/4
...then placed their children in government facilities. The policy drew condemnation from around the world as stories emerged almost daily about screaming children, some as young as babies, forcibly taken away from parents.
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The U.S. has acknowledged that agents separated families long before they enforced zero tolerance across the entire southern border, its agencies did not properly record separations, and some detention centers were overcrowded and undersupplied, with...3/4
...families denied food, water or medical care. families denied food, water or medical care. https://apnews.com/article/e22c6f494ec9017648dd402d9e47a54e?fbclid=IwAR0cKHZ3Btitci_2W43L-h90Lx0kArp1Q3lmZL0m76L9xS1TzjV6RpUIT9M 4/4
