#EndFamilySeparation: Solving the Crisis at the Border

2,000 migrant kids have been separated from their families. Trump’s Executive Order is trash. And Melania doesn’t really care, do you?

In May 2018, the Trump Administration announced a tough new crackdown called the “zero tolerance” policy, which mandates that every adult that illegally crosses the border is prosecuted and that every accompany child is placed in a government agency. As a result, more than 2,000 kids have been separated from their families and placed in detention centers and shelters.

On this episode of Let Your Voice Be Heard!, Selena Hill, Jaqi Cohen, and special guest correspondent Tousif Ahsan, the Civic Engagement Fellowship Coordinator at NYPIRG and a Bengali immigrant, discussed the pandemonium that Trump has caused at the border. They also spoke with Juan Manuel Guzman, the advocacy and policy manager at United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led community in the country.

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