Why Did the Government Separate This Family?

Jeremy Stahl - Slate

This article from Slate tells the story of Salvador and Rosita, a father and daughter who were separated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shortly after arriving in the United States. Rosita and Salvador are among the "more than 1,150 immigrant children being separated from their parents after arriving at the border between the end of zero tolerance in June 2018 and this March, when the southern border was closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic," says the article. Separations have continued as the result of "loopholes in the court order that ended the practice."