Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Finding parents deported without their kids in Guatemala
On September 12, a boy named Erik Castillo is expected to return to Guatemala after months in detention in the United States. Erik Castillo came across the border with his father, but they got caught and separated.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readOn September 12, a boy named Erik Castillo is expected to return to Guatemala after months in detention in the United States. Erik Castillo came across the border with his father, but they got caught and separated. His father was deported back to Guatemala. Erik was taken to a shelter in Chicago, where he’s been ever since. There are hundreds of children in similar situations -- and a small army of people working to reunite them with their parents. LA Times immigration reporter Cindy Carcamo tagged along with some of the lawyers and activists who are looking for parents in extremely remote areas.
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3 of 5Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown on his climate efforts- 0:00Gov. Brown to his critics: 'We have the strictest rules on oil drilling anywhere in the U.S.’
- 10:02How the 2008 financial collapse led to our current political populist moment
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- 26:15'Mean Girls’ in Ghana, and how skin color in Africa determines who’s at the top of the pecking order
- 39:29Why we should take sexual harassment training more seriously