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Immigration enforcement and family breakups

Seven hundred children have been separated from adults applying for asylum at the Mexican border. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says that’s what it takes to prevent immigration fraud--even if it means breaking up families.

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By Warren Olney • Apr 26, 2018 • 33m Listen

Asylum seekers who cross the Mexican border are put in jail, but children are not allowed. Some kids end up hundreds of miles from the grownups they came with for months at a time. Are they really part of the same family, or pawns in the game of immigration fraud? Even some hard-line immigration opponents want that and other questions answered with greater humanity.

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    Warren Olney

    former KCRW broadcaster

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    Andrea Brody

    Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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    Lomi Kriel

    Immigration reporter for the Houston Chronicle

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    Lee Gelernt

    deputy director, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project

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    Jessica Vaughan

    Center for Immigration Studies

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