Separated Inside an American Tragedy

Jacob Soboroff

eBook - 2020

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The seminal book on the child-separation policy." —Rachel MaddowThe award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth behind America’s systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border.Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | American Book Award Winner | American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award FinalistIn June 2018, Donald Trump’s most notorious decision as president had secretly been in effect for months before most Americans became aware of the astonishing inhumanity being perpetrated by their own government—the deliberate separation of migrant parents and children at U.S. border facilities. Jacob Soboroff was among the first journalists to expose this reality af...ter seeing firsthand the living conditions of the children in custody. His influential series of reports ignited public scrutiny that contributed to the president... more