'Separated': Film Shows How Trump Tore Immigrant Families Apart as 1,300 Kids Still Alone

We speak with Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris about his new documentary, _Separated_ , based on NBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book of the same name. The film details the horrors of the Trump “zero tolerance” immigration policy, under which thousands of immigrant children were forcibly separated from their parents after they crossed the southern U.S. border, part of the administration’s broader crackdown on immigration. The cruel policy was enforced as early as July 2017, initially without public acknowledgment by Trump officials. It was ultimately rescinded amid widespread outrage, but it continues to impact the families who were targeted, and about 1,000 children remain effectively orphaned years later, with authorities and rights groups still unable to locate their parents. “It wouldn’t have happened were it not for decades of bipartisan deterrence-based immigration policy that continues to this day,” says Soboroff. Morris says “the most appalling part of the policy” was the lack of record-keeping. “OK, let’s separate the children, but let’s not actually keep a record of how to ever reunite them. Let’s separate them for good. Let’s just create orphans, abandon children,” he says. _Separated_ plays for a week at the IFC Center in New York, starting tonight, before it gets wider theatrical distribution and airs on MSNBC this December.

[treesarose]

People poor or rich, have the human right to reproduce or to not reproduce. It’s inhumane to force women to birth and also to separate families.

[johngalt]

And some woman actually married Stephen Miller after this. Monster’s Ball.

[TheMRNAILED]

Every single American needs to watch this.

[itspersonal]

It’s always about the cruelty for the lifelong fraud/r4pist/abuser

[worldatmyfingertips]

Oh brother....can you imagine? So, they're now gonna have to add one of the worst charges in history we thought we had left behind so many decades ago? Crimes against humanity. He's going to prison, there is no way in hell that he's not gonna go to prison. This is barbaric beyond words....

[MC-ujgd]

I want to know did all the children find their parents? It’s very disturbing….

[ethelparis]

I remember this, I wonder why this is not a talking point in this election

[sacredcrystal]

Praying for these children 💔🙏💔💔please give them back to their parents we should do as much as we can to help always

[michaelgnit]

How many crimes have been committed and how many should be arrested?

[catalinasherwell]

Such a pity that Errol Morris was given so little time to speak, especially when he was about to point out the cruelty of this system.

[nancycole-auguste]

"The tears of orphans cause floods, the breath of the oppressed fires."

[runoz]

*in a bullpen, cage, kennel* 🤦🤨🤯🙄
*how devastating*
*more space on outside of enclosure than inside, children can barely more around, *

[vintagechild]

This has happened so many times beginning with Native and African children kidnapped, but this time we get to see it in living color! Export those who created the circumstances that bring refugees! This is how to grow your own enemy, they won’t forget.

[Treasurerose]

The trauma this brings is life shattering. I am deeply moved by this body of work.

[bunyip]

This is like Robodebt in Australia where public officials broke the law in pursuit of an ideological war on govt benefit recipients. Same disregard for the law and proper process, marked by meanness and a callous disregard for their victims.

[TallyRocky]

This has Stephen Miller’s fingerprints all over it.

[acadianjr]

This is just so wrong and so devastating. The Acadians understand this MO from 1755. They are still talking about it to this day.

[KJBAB]

Children are separated from their parent's all of the time when their parents commit a crime and they end up being incarcerated.

[rosanneallen-hewlett]

I'm looking forward!! We're all immigrants.
But I will not use QR codes for safety..

Thank you!

[nancycole-auguste]

News that has the OTHER half of the HUMAN equation- A HEART!!
The only place where human wisdom can come from!!