Family Separations

A growing movement wants to destigmatize severing ties. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations?

Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga was one of the first mothers separated from her children at the border by the Trump Administration. The cruelty she suffered in the United States was matched only by what she was forced to flee in Honduras.

The Biden Administration has begun an ambitious effort to reunite more than a thousand families torn apart by the previous President.

I wish these children no harm, but our conversations are not private. Every result will leave my office, leave my hands, and factor somehow—in ways I cannot know or predict—into this child’s uncertain future.

Warren Binford, a lawyer who has been interviewing children held in the detention facilities, was so disturbed by what she saw that she decided to talk to the media.

The debate over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp” is not about language or facts. It is about how we perceive history, ourselves, and ourselves in history.

The President’s policy of separating migrant families at the southern border has cultivated a backlash that may help his opponents get past their own differences.