“Childhood Trauma Means a Century of Suffering”
In ‘Separated: Inside an American Tragedy,’ Jacob Soboroff lays out one of the darkest chapters in this nation’s history
On June 13, 2018, NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff became one of the first reporters to step into a shelter where more than 1,000 migrant children were detained, many after being forcefully separated from their families. “This place is called a shelter but these kids are incarcerated,” Soboroff said in a Twitter thread that went viral overnight.
That night would mark the start of Soboroff’s journey as he tried to report why, and more importantly how, the Trump administration systematically tore apart migrant families in an attempt to deter others from coming into the United States. In his new book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, Soboroff pieces together how this shameful policy came to be, its disastrous implementation, and the inevitable fallout when the government found itself struggling to reunite thousands of families.
Soboroff spoke with GEN about his extensive reporting and why families are still being separated today.
GEN: Why did you write Separated?
Jacob Soboroff: I saw this take place in real time. I went into that former Walmart where they…
